The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-07-09
The Great Storm in Paris.

Paris was visited yesterday by wind
storm of such unusual violence as to
deserve some especial mention. I say
''wind storm" because wind played de
cidedly la part dU GeG1It in it, though
dust was a conspicuous feature in the
JOurbUlUH, and thunder and rain also,
the latter, unfortunately, in much too
small proportion took part In the uni
versal hubbub of the elements. The
approach of the hurr cane was indicated
by sitting heat, which sent up the
thermometer TO between ninety and
ninety-One degrees, the highest point 1t
has yet reached this summer. This
was o'clock in the afternoon. Towards
8 o'clock the sky became black with
heavy, iuky clouds, and the darkness
was almost pOrtentOus. A hurricane of
dry wind, without, at first, one drop of
rain from the lowering heavens; thin
swooped fercely and suddenly upon the
city. 1t was a complete whirlwind, be-
fore which the trees seemed not so
much to bend and break as 10 dance
and spin around as though about to be
torn up out of the soil by the roots.
The dust rose in clouds, which seemed
to leave only light enough to make
darkness visible the air was literally
filed with dry branches, leaves and
other objects of much more dangerous
character in the shape of chimney-pots,
rafters, or whatever the terrible blast
could tear away in / course. The
scene was quite awful for some twenty
minutes or so, until at last rain came to
lay the dust and calm down the fierce
ness of the tempest. But thunder also
came with it, and the papers this morn
in GT1al iii, 0F
cidents produced either by the wind or
the lightning which followed.
The immense scaffofdiug raised for
the rebuilding of the Hotel de Vile has
been in great part leveled with the
ground. Some twenty trees in the
Camp EIysees are more OF less injured,
and many also on the b0Ulevards, where
the lightning also struck several objects.
A sentinel standing in the Place Ven
dome, before the headquarters OF the
military governor of Paris Cunder the
etat de 8iGQe). was capsized in his box,
in which he had taken refuge, and kept
there for a considerable time until re-
leased. Baths and washerwOmen on
the Seine suffered, of course, severely,
being exposed TO the violence of the
wind.
appears to have been that of the i'm
mense panorama, representing the prin-
cipaI episodes of the two sieges of Paris,
now in the course of preparation at the
corner of the Rue de Ia Sabliere and
the Chaussee- duh Maine. and intended
for the exposition at Philadelphia The
circular erection, entirely of wood,
wherein it was being carried on, and
which measures something like one hun
dred and fifty feet in diameter by sixty
feet high, was completely cut in two by
a coup de rent, and the fragments scat
tered in all directions, like square of
infantry broken by a charge of cavalry.
Fortunately, however, no bones were
broken nor lives lost, nor auy one in
iured. The numerous band of decOra-
tors and workmen employed, not think
ing their "drum" safe quarters in such
blast, had early and wisely taken
refuge in a more solid and less hatulant
| construction. The damages in that
quarter are said to exceed 80. 900 francs.
Happily, however, the lOJ Jses sustained
seem to be confined to such incidents as
the above, and to the city itself F.; and
not to have extended to the crops and
! the country in the shape of hail, which,
at this season of the year, might have
proved very fatal. A few hailstOnes
| fell, but in small quantities, and of IN
! ferior size. The rain. all insufficient as
| it was, has yet sufficed to wash our
| foliage, and impart at least an air of ex-
| ternal freshness to our gardens and veg
! citation, which already suffered and be-
/ gan TO look autumnaI from the long
/ continued drouth.- Paris Letter.