Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
1854 - The Destructive Gate - Its Effects at the East.

...In Fitchburg, the large brick engine-house, belonging to the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad Company, was blown over with a tremendous crash, a portion of the brick work staving through the gas building adjoining, demolishing the gasometer, causing the gas to escape so that it will be impossible to light the place to-night. There were no persons in either building at the time.

A top of one of the railroad bridges on the Boston and Fitchburg Road, was taken by the wind, and carried a la balloon, some distance from the birdge.

A new two-story wooden building, unoccupied, located near the Catholic Church, in Fitchburg, was blown down. Nearly all the houses in the vicinity had to be propped up to keep them from being levelled.

Some of the streets of Fitchburg, this morning, it is said, were almost black with slates, blown from the tops of houses...

The New York Times
New York, New York
March 21, 1854

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