Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-05-14
9d1ailg empire.
Written expressly Tor the Dayton Empire
A SUMMER In EUROPE.
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though located here in little village Of onl,
few hundred inhabitants, it is as magniG
cent inside, as many whose namea are ia
nous. In a little snbterranean chapel neaI
by, we smiled to see the dried skulls Of the
defunct worthless of the parish, grinnug at
US, from pigeon holes all around the room
On our return to Lucerne, we noticed a
cash in the face of mountain, which rises O
vertical wall OF rock from the water, from
which a fragment fell into the Lake, Sc
large ns to cause a wave to rise, which ut
the distance Of mile, submerged a hamlet
and destroyed many lives At another place
the falling of piece Of rock has left for.
nation which bears resemblance that ia tru.
ly wonderful, to the head OF the great Eapel.
con. II is so accurate that one can not hard.
y help thinking, that the Creator intended
it to be here among his sublimest works. in
the material world, a monument to the great.
est man he ever made-as if he would say to
us all "ye wonder at the power of the hand
which reared these immeasurable rocks but
hero is a memorial Of creation that is great.
ter still.
We stopped for few moments, at the vii.
lage OF Brunnen, in The canton of Schwytz,
which occupies the gap in the mountains,
which encompass the lake, through which the
traveller enters section of the country, that
is hallowed, to every Swiss by the most stir
ring recollections
In the back ground rise two red peaks side
by side, called the mitres, a little beyond
them is the Rossberg Mountain, from which
in the year 1906, there was land slide that
overwhelmed three yiIlages, in sudden and
complete destruction The mass which broke
loose from the mountain, was a thousand feet
wide, hundred feet deep, and three miles
lOngl II shot across the valley in an instant.
and crushed the houses ss if they had been
eRg-shells Murray, the traveller friard. gives
us IN bis hand boolO the simple vet powerful
description OF this convulsion of nature writ
ten by Mr.. Iay, on eyewitness of the tremen-
dous spectacle. he says, 'the summer ofI
1876, had been very rainy and on the frat
and second days, OF September, it rained in
cessanlly. New erevices we're observed in
the Hank OF the mountain, sort Of crack
ing sound was heard internally, stones start
ed out of the ground, detached fragments of
rock rolled down the mountain at two O'clock
in the afternoon Of the 2nd Of September. a
large rock came loose, and in falling raised
cloud OF black dust Toward the lower part
OF the mountain, the ground seemed pressed
down from above; and wheL u stick or spade
was driven in, it moved of itself A man
VINO had been digging in his garden, ran
away from fright at these extraordinary ap
a
the others was observed Iusensibly il in
creased Springs of water ceased ali at once
TO HOW The pine trees OF the forest abso
lutely reeled Birds flew away screaming A
few minutes before five o'clodk, the symptoms
OF some mighty catastrophe became still
stronger. The whole surface Of the mountain
seemed to glide dowp but so slowly at frat.
as to afford time foI the iahabitants to 90
away, An old man; who had often predict.
ed some such a disas ter, was quietly smoking
his pipe, when told by young man running
by, that the mountai was falling He rose
and looked cut but went in again, saying be
had plenty OF time 10 fiji another pipe The
young man, continuing TO Ay, was thrown
loWn several times, aud escaped with difficult.
" Looking back he saw the house sgept
away all at once The rest Of the narrative
gives the experiences Of SONS of the survivors
aud is very thrilling but toe lengthy for in.
8eftion here
Men are shocked when they look upon this
scene, and think Of the sudden sweepipg Of
unshriven creatures into the presence of their
j Judge with inexpres sible terror but they can
pass on a little beyont TO the bait g MorK en-, 1
where thousands IN stead OF hundreds we're
hurried into eterHilI aud think of nothing
bat the glory Such is man. The death OF
one or two by an accident in Dayton, causes
a greater horror amoi1g us than the deaths OF I
.wenty or thirty lhout and on the Rapidan or
Tennessee. Morgart en- 10 the Marathon ofl
switzerland. Il was the conclusion of the |
war which the oath OF the conspirators for
freedom at Hutli ina nRurated, and Walter
Frust and William Tail, with thirteen hun.
1red OF their county men, routed and de. |
'lroyed splendid Austr ian army, twenty thou. |
sand strong, They hung upon the heights
Ike thunder cloud, aud easily dealt destruc-
iion TO the hOats that Was crowded in the mar. |
row border Of the lake below
Seventy years afterward, 10 1886, on the
borders OF the lake OF Ssmpaoh by the deyo. !
lion of single mAa, ,400 Swiss gained an
equally decisive ctoFy oyer the same Ans.
lrlan foe and the brightest wreath Of glory
aver woR on any battlefield eneiroled thateve |
ning the pallid brow OF ArHoid Winkelreid. |
"He too, Of battle laartyr,H chisf
Mhe % recall his aaunied peers,
BY gathering with Wide en brace;
lnio bis single hceTta sheaf
or iatal Austrian pears"
Zschokke tells the story Of tho battle Tins /
u After a short DrORlrntion In nrapar AZ. c.