Peter Flanders says that this day the family had been baking, and the bricks were hot, and the chimney falling on three of the children, so injured one of them, a girl, that she died that night, and so burned anther, a boy aged five years, about the legs that the sores caused thereby did not fully heal for seven years, and he was made a cripple through life. The third child was uninjured. At the time the tornado struck Peter Flanders's house he was standing at the west of the chimney by the jamb and close to the cellar door. His son True was standing in front of the fire-place. The child Phebe was asleep on the bed, and Mrs. Flanders and Mrs. Richardson were east of the chimney. The building being borne completely away, Mr. Flanders was found with his feet partly down the cellar stairs, partially paralyzed, from which shock he did not recover for some six months. The son, True, was thrown into the fire-place (the fire being out after dinner) and was not injured. The girl, Phebe, (now Mrs. Augustus Pettengill) was carried with the feather bed and dropped some rods from the house, and one arm was broken. Mrs. Flanders was thrown to the floor and Mrs. Richardson on top of her, and a large stick of timber was found upon Mrs. Richardson. Her arms and legs were broken, and she sustained other injuries, from which she died in half an hour. Mrs. Flanders was the daughter of Jabez and sister of Joseph True, and was so badly injured about the head that she never recovered. Mrs. Richardson resided over a mile away on the road to the Gore, and was at this house for milk.

The amount of damage suffered by this tornado was appraised to each, and a subscription in the several towns was raised for their relief, as will appear by the following bill and subscription list. It will be seen that the greatest sufferers were the two Savorys, in Warner, and the Trues, father and son, in Salisbury; and that Joseph True was the greatest individual sufferer.

In 1869, General Walter Harriman addressed a mass meeting in Painesville, Ohio. At its close as old gentleman, whose form was bent with age, and whose head was bowed with sorrow, came forward and made himself known as Mr. Huntoon, the father of the child that was destroyed in Wendell, N. H., in the tornado of 1821. He had left the shores of Sunapee and the divested track of the tornado fifty years before, and made him a home in Ohio. Soon after this meeting with General Harriman, he escaped from the storms and the blasts of this life, and went to a land of peace and safety.

The History of Salisbury, New Hampshire: From Date of Settlement to the Present Time, 1890, pages 421-423
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!