Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-07-28
Eastern Dispatches.

NEW YORK, July 27.-Our correspond
ent at Geneva gives an account this
morning Of terrible storm which broke
over that city on midnight OF wednes-
day. the 'th instant. 1t broke out at s
p. NJ, few heavy drops OF rain began
to fall, and at the same time the whole
circumference of the horizon would be
frightfully illuminated by flashes Of sheet
lightning, but there was no thunder.
Once only during the entirs night was
there one terrific clap Of thunder, and
that was when the storm was Just over.
The lightning gradually increased in in
tensity and became continuous; the en-
tire atmosphere seemed to be an element
OF flames, and oil this time there was not
the slightest movement of the air in the
street; about II small objects lying on
the roofs of houses were caught up and
whirled around as if by 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 di-
rection toward the basin of Lake Leman;
as it neared the lake it seemed to spread
out into fanlike form, with the front
sufficiently wide to embrace the entire
city. 1t did not last much longer
than ten or twelve 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 al.
most compact mass Of sheet of ice,
driven horizontally before the temp
est blast. Every gaslight in the
street, save here and there one spared by
reason of protecting roof, was smashed
to atoms and extinguished, but the city
was not in darkness, for masses of CO.
agulated hail reflected the blue light of
the lightning in a CHASTITY and ominous
manner on the windows. Manufacture
les and residences were forced from their
fastenings, besides having all the glass
shivered, and bedrooms and staircases
and saloons were thrown open to the
storm, and in minute or two half filed
with masses OF ice, far beyond the i'm
mediate power of the inhabitants to re-
move, for the storm was marked by the
popularity that the hail stones or ice
fragments compacted themselves into
solid mass as soon as fallen. The slope
of the left bank of the river Arvie in the
suburbs of the city was covered with the
tiles of many houses, and were absolute
ly beaten to powder. Stout partitions
OF wooden plank were pierced by holes
such as might have been made by mus
ket balls. Three persons were killed by
the fall of farm house in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the city. Vast quantities
OF small birds have been picked up
killed by the storm. and the bodies
OF several foxes have been found
Geneva is surrounded by pleasant farms
and vineyards and market gardens, and
these have been destroyed, as if charge
of cavalry had passed over, involving the
ruin and despair of poor and industrious
peasants, whose all is now taken from
them as etfectually as if it had beeu sunk
to the bottom of the sea.
CINCINNATI, July PA New Orleans
dispatch states riot is apprehended at
East Faliccana, where the negroes have
assumed the offensive and are collecting
and arming throughout the parish for
the supposed purpose of capturing the
town of Clarion. Great excitement pre-
walls throughout the parish, and a num-
Der OF whites have armed and are con-
gregating to patrol the town. Bad feel.
ing has existed between the races in
that parish for some months.
CHICAGO, July 81. "A Washington
special says an attempt is being made to
secure change i'll the Office of the Com
missioner OF Patents. Thatcher, the
present incumbent. has displeased a
number of local attorneys who are op-
posing him, and political influences are
being used in 'avor of r. H. Duell, ex.
Congressman from New York. Indica.
tions are that Duell will receive the
place.