An unusually detailed accounting of the storm's passage through Richmond County, North Carolina was provided two days later: a local resident undertook an informal, but detailed survey of the damage produced by the storm, and this account was published in an Anson County (NC) newspaper. This accounting establishes a steady SW-to-NE movement through the county, with a number of buildings – sharecropper cabins, large homes, and a mill – swept away along the path. As the storm passed SE of downtown Rockingham, it may have peaked in intensity; it was noted that all structures along a segment of the path (beginning at this point) were destroyed. The surveyor noted a path width of to , with the most extreme damage (and most deaths) in the Philadelphia Church community. The surveyor noted that: