An interesting side light to this story from a forestry perspective: I used to work for the NH Division of Forests and Lands. The Director had a fascination with the storm and told lots of stories about it. I believe he's written a lengthy account of it.

When the hurricane roared up the Merrimack River Valley in NH, it mowed down an enormous amount of timber, particularly white pine, which is shallow-rooted. Now remember this was during the latter years of the depression when the CCC was busy building public facilities. There are an untold number of bridges, State Park structures, cabins, etc built with the downed timber from the storm. There was so much down timber they couldn't come close to using it, so many fine white pine logs were sunk in lakes and ponds to preserve them, the plan being to come back later and get them when needed.

To this day, people are occasionally finding those logs and putting them to use. They command a high price today, especially because of their historical interest.

The Division had many photos of hurricane damage, one showing the State House grounds with trees toppled like matchsticks.