Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-07-31

Sawyer is hurt IN the face and limhs, but
not seriously. Lloyd Ia hurt in the face.
The stranger IL not seriously injured. A
coroner's inquest will be held tomorrow.
Failure OF Danean, Sherman & Co.
! NEW York, July 27.-The Evening Rbst
has the following in its financial column /:
THE quietness Of Wall Street was broken
| in the second hour of business by the an
nouncement that the banking house of Dun
| can, Sherman & Co. had closed doors and
suspended payment. A clap of thunder in
clear sky could not have caused more con.
sternation; and at the stock exchange, gold
exchange, and cotton exchange there was
great excitement The liabilities of the
house are given at the inside Of 36, 0O0, 600,
and ii Is admitted that the assets fall far below
this amount. The losses which have weak.
ened the house are not entirely of recent
making, but cover several years, the heaviest,
| 1t is understood. having been in cotton and
the next in securities which now have doubt
| full value. 1t is due to William Butler Dun
| can to say that, had he had the disposition to
take chances Of credit, his house was suff1-
| ciently good to have enabled him to have got
some means necessary to have bridged over
his bills on London, sold yesterday, close on
| to those of four prime Names As man of
honor, however, he took the honorable course
and stopped while he had something to d.
vide, refusing new business. He endeavored
to get new capital to pay every new demand
which could be possibly made on him, but,
failing, concluded to suspend.
Terrible Haiistorm At Geneva.
New YORK, July ga correspondent at
Geneva gives an account this morning of q
terrible storm which broke over that CITY,
At midnight Wednesday, the 7th inst, at SP.
NJ, few heavy drops of rain began to fall, and
at the same time the whole circumference of
q Ian Nspat Tod h,,
! flashes of sheet lightning, but there was no
| thunder. Once only during the entire night
was there one terrific clap OF thunder, and
that was when the storm was Just over. The
lightning gradually increased In intensity and
became continuous. The entire atmosphere
seem cd to be an element of flames, and all
this time there was not the slightest move
ment of the air in the street. About eleven,
small objects lying on the roofs of houses
were caught up and hirled around as if by
O cyclone; still there was no movement of
air in the streets below. At midnight the
tempest came mainly from the Jura range
and from the southwest, travelling in that d.
| rection toward the basin of lake Leman. As
it neared the lake it seemed to spread out into
fan-like form, with the front sufficiently
wide to embrace the entire city. 1t did not
last much longer than ten minutes, and at
| the end of it Geneva was wrecked as no army
| of besiegers could have wrecked it in the
same space of time. The storm came in the
shape of an almost compact mass of sleet or
ice driven horizontally before the tempest.
In the first blast every gaslight in the streets,
save here and there one, spared by reason of
protecting roof, was smashed to atoms and
extinguished, but the city was not In dark
ness, for there were masses of cOagulated
hail, which reflected the blue light of the
! lightning in q CHASTITY manner. Windows
of manufactures and residences were forced
| from their fastenings, besides having all the
| glass shivered, and the bedrooms, showcases
and saloons were thrown open to the storm
and in minute or two were half filled with
masses of ice far beyond the immediate
power of the inhabitants to remove. The
storm was marked with the popularity that
the hail stones, or ice fragments compacted
| themselves into solid mass as soon as they
fell In the suburbs of the city the tiles of
many houses were absolutely beaten to pow
der; stout partitions Of wood and plank were
pierced with holes such as might have been
made by musket balls. Three persons were
killed by the fall of farm house. In the
immediate vicinity of the city vast quantities
of birds were picked up, killed by the storm,
and the bodies Of several foxes have been
found. Geneva is surrounded by pleasant
farms, vineyards and pleasant gardens, and
| these have been destroyed as II a charge Of
cavalry had passed over, involving the ruin
and despair of poor and industrious peas
| ants, whose all is now taken from them as
silectually as if il had been sunk to the bot
| tom of the sea.