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From: Daniel Wilson <>
Subject: [S-I] Big Wind - Omagh
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:24:33 -0700


Hi Joan,

Here's what they have to say about Omagh - Dan

"From this town we hear of some houses having been blown down, and other
damaged by being stripped and their windows shattered - the throwing
down of stacks of oats and hay, and the tearing up of trees, fill up the
report of this calamitous visitation, which appears to have extended its
ravages far and wide, and to have spared neither rich nor poor. The
latter, however, who have been smitten by it, are the greatest
sufferers, several families having lost their all in the destruction of
their frail cabins, which have, in many instances, with all they
contained, been consumed by fire."

Carr, Peter (1991), /The Night of the Big Wind. /Belfast: White Row Press/
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