Yankton daily press and Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1875, 1875-07-27
FOREIGN.

steamship line, who retired from bust
Less some time ago, is dead
|. New YORK, July PA CORES
pondent at Geneva gives an
account this morning Of the
terrible storm which broke
over that city at midnight the eth
inst. About s. O'Clock few heavy
drops Of rain began to fall, aud at the
same time the circumference of the
horizon began to be titfully illumi-
mated by flashes of sheet lightning,
but there was no thunder; once only
during the entire night was there one
terrific clap, and that when the storm
was first over. The lightning gradu-
ally increased in intensity and became
continuous. The entire atmosphere
seemed to be an element of flames,
and all the time there was not the
| slightest movement of air in the street
About ii o'clock small objects. ly-
ling onthc roofs Of houses were caught
upand whirlcd around as by il cyclone; !;
still there was no movement of air in
the streets below. AZ, midnight the
tempest came mainly from the Jnra
| Angc and from the southwest, rrayrl-
ing i'll that direction towards the ,a-
sin of Lake l.mar. As it ncarell st,c
lake it seemed to spread out into q
lan-likc form, with front sufficiently
wide to embrace the entire city. 1t
did not last much longer than ten
minutes. At-thc- cnl~ol 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.
A sheet of ice, driven horizontally
before a tempest, blasting in the first
instant every gas light in the street,
save here and there one spared by
reason of a protecting roof. Every
lamp was smashed to- atoms,
and extinguished, but the city was
not in darkness, ,for masses of congnla.
ted hail reflected the blue lig ghts,of the
IightningSin a ghastly and ominous
manner. The windows of manufacto-
ries and residences were forced from
their fastenings, besides having all
the glass, sshivered, aud bed rooms,
stair cases and saloons were thrown
open to the storm, and in 4 minute or
two were half filed with masses Of
ice, far beyond the immediate power
of the inhabitants to remove; fuf the
storm was marked with the peculiari.
/ ty that the hail stones or ice frag.
ments compactcafhemselves into q
solid mass ps> Soon as they fell. In
\ the suburbs of the city the tiles OF
mxny houses were absolutely beaten
4 to powder; stout partitions Of wood:
en- pEank> were pierced by holes such
as might have been made by <muskct
balls. Three persons werelllilcd by
the fall OF farm bouse<in the immc-
: diate vicinity of thcScitv. Vast quan'
I titles OF small-birds wefezrieked up
killed by ,hc,storm, and the bodies d
several foxes have been foundA
Geneva isfsurroundcd by pleasure
gardens, vineyards and market gar
dens, and they have been destroyed
as completely as ifa charge Of cayal
ry had passed over them, involving
, the ruin and despair Of poor and in
dustrious peasants, whose all is now
taken from them as effectually as i
it had been sunk to the bottom ofthe
:|sea. ~.
LoSpoS, July 27.-Right Rev
Common. Thicrwell, bishop Of St
!. l.evius, is dead.
A terrible state Of things prevails
at Oldham. Only six Of l62 mills
belonging to employees association
are working.
ST.. PETERSBURG, July 27.-Th'
Galos announces that the governmcn
has not abandoned the idea Of havin,
! a session Of conference on the usage
Of war at St. Petersburg. 1t says al
powers except England have accepte'
invitations, and the conference wi
meet next spring.
: OCEAN WRECK.
J LONDON, July 26,LInformation ha
been received Of the wreck, on Apr
: l4th. of the shin Stuart Hahnemar