The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-15
me Great Storm in Paris.

Paris was visited yesterday by wind
storm of such unusual violence as to
deserve some especial mention. say
''wind Storm" because wind played de-
cidedly la part dU ged3lt in it, though
dust was a conspicuous feature in the
t0urbiLlOn, and thu der 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 a sitting heat, which sent up the
thermometer to between nine,y and
ninety-one degrees, the highest point it
has yet reached this summer. This
was o'clock in the afternoon. Towards
3 o'clock the sky became black with
heavy, inky clouds, and the darkness
was almost portentous. A hurricane of
dry wind, without, at first, one drop of
rain from the lowering heavens, th5n
swooped fercely and suddenly upon the
city. 1t was complete whirlwind, be-
fore which the trees seemed not so
much to bend and break as to 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 its course. The
scene was quite awful for some twenty
minutes or so, until at last rain came to
Law the dust and calm down the fierce
ness of the tempest. But thunder also
came with it, and the papers this morn
ing are filed with the accounts of ac
cidents produced either by the wind or
the lightning which followed.
The immense scaffoldiDg raised for
the rebuilding of the Hotel de Vile has
been in a great part leveled with the
ground. Some twenty trees IN the
Camp Elysees are more OF less injured,
and many also on the boulevards, where
the lightning also struck several objects.
A sentinel standing in the Place Ven
dome, before the headquarters OF the
military governor of Paris (under the
etdt de s5eQe). was capsized in his box,
in which he had taken refuge, and kept
there Tor a considerable time until re-
leased. Baths and washerwomen on
the Seine suffered, of course, severely,
being exposed to the violence of the
wind.
But one of the severest catastrophes
appears to have been that of the i'm
mense panorama, representing the prln-
cipal episodes of the two sieges of Paris,
now in the course of preparation at the
corner of the Rue de la Sabiere and
the Chaussee-d du-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 hum
dred and fifty feet in diameter by sixty
feet high, was completely cut in two by
a coup dc cent, and the fragments scat
tered in all directions, like a square of
infantry broken by a charge of cavalry.
Fortunately, however, no bones were
broken nor lives lost, nor any one III
jured. The numerous band of decora-
tors and workmen employed, not think
ing their "drum" safe quarters in such
a blast, had early and wisely taken
refuge in a more solid and less hatulant
construction. The damages IN that
quarter are said to exceed SO, 900 francs.
Happily, however, the losses sustained
seem to be confined to such incidents as
the above, and to the city itself 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 IL
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 autumnal from the long
! continued drouth. - P1ris Letter.