Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-27

with buckets, bailinE out the water. They
did not speak a word, and men never were
better disciplined. They worked hard 10
keep the saloon free OF water. AS the
snip rolled the water splashed over the
tables and against the sides OF the state
rooms, The confusion among she passen-
gers was
ALMOST UNDERSTANDABLE.
''The most of them had life-preservers,
and one man wanted lite-bOat launched.
He was covered over with preserVers ana
. KEEP up running PRAYER.
when the cargo shifted TO the larboard
and the steamer cRreened, the passengers
thought they were gone. A few perhaps
! trusted In the skill of the Captain and his
I office g TO bring US out all right.
( "The passengers stood around half
/ dressed, and were pitched about over the
| ship as though helpless. About o'clock
the hurricane was most furious. The
sair WAS running straight TO sea. One
moment the bow was down IL the trough
and the next moment it was pointing up
AZ the stars. She rolled and was tossed
for hours, and the officers and crew can
never he repaid for their work. Capt.
Daggett never left the pilot house. The
saloon was close and hot, and some Of the
passengers wanted to go out on deck,
but 80
IT WAS CERTAIN DEATH.
TIE high seas swept over the upper
deck, broke in the skvlights and came
down in the dining saloon. Every one
was thoroughly wet"
Those Of the crew that were bailing
were compelled TO stand in the water.
The most OF them, like the passengers,
had not had time TO get shoes or coats on.
A n n
n thirty years Of seafaring life
he had never been in worse
storm, not even in the Indian ocean.
We were all mighty glad when the wind
abated toward daybyeak. We were wet,
b"t did not mind that very much after the
| night All passed"
The cargo of the City of Savannah was
discharged Yesterday. and WAS found to
be in much better condition than was eX-
pected. All OF il except the local freight
was forwarded to its various destinations
last night. The steamer suffered very lit
tie damage.
Loss OF THE ITALIAN BRIG ARAGO.
The British brgantjne Emma Ernst,
from st, Thomas, w. L., arrived yesterday
afternoon at quarantine. The captain
reports that on Tuesday, July %, IS miles
southeast by south Of Tybee light, he fell
n with the Italian brig Arago. from
masted. He took off the captain. his wife
and nine men, and brought them to quar-.
antine. The Arago left Brunswick on
saturday and was dismasted in the gale
Of Monday. The shipwrecked were sent
round 10 the italian Consul, and meas
ures will probably be taken at once for
their relief The AragO was loaded with
lumber, and was uninsured.
LAST NIGHTS BLOW.
The weather early last night threatened
a repetition of the scenes Of Monday night
and Tuesday morning. Huge banks Of
black threatening clouds piled up in the
south and west, and the rain for an hour
fell in torrents, deluging the streets AMI
sidewalks. The sewers were filed and
streets in many places were over
flowed and impossible. The horse
car tracks in some places were
several inches under water. The
pavement on Whitaker street from South
Broad to Liberty was overlooked and
pedestranism was exceedingly uncom-
Portable On many of the low streets the
water formed in ponds and small lakes.
and remained until it soaked into the
ground. The total fall was about 9 in
cEe,. At 9 O'Clock the rain ceased and
the wind, which blew almost a gale for
few moments, Stacked off and subsidized
In the early part OF the blow, which lasted
but short time, the rumor went out that
the Charleston
CYCLONE WAS RETURNING
southwark, and many people we're fearful
If a recurrence Of the scenes of four years
ago, which have never been forgotten
That there wac no foundation for the re-
port, the signal service observations
show. The barometer was rising rapidly
and 50 far as reports have been received
he storm was local and did not extend
outside of the Savannah section.
The storm which passed east of the city
on Tuesday was succeeded yesterday
morning by fair weather, rising tempera-
ture and a rising barometer and with the
wind blowing at the rate OF eight miles
an hour from the southwest at O'Clock.
Al IL O'clock it was ten miles an hour
from the west and at O'Clock IL wa
seven miles from the northwest. The
! temperature during the day was 81 deg
at o'clock in the morning, s. deg. at II
O'Clock, 9l.5 at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon.
/ % At $3.50 O'Clock, and 50 at o'clock.
AT the latter hour the barometer stood
at 29.S4l, while at 3 O'Clock in the after
noon it was 29829, ana at IL O'Clock last
night 29.962. A slight
FALL IN THE BAROMETER
preceded during the afternoon the forma-
| ton of the clouds which appeared in tn
! west, and brought the heavy rainfall
which commenced at 10 minutes after :
! o'clock last night. A fall In the tempera.
| ture to 75.5 succeeded the rain. and at ! /
! o'clock the wind had backed to the cas-
! with a velocity OF u milea, though at 7
O'Clock, when the rain began, 1t was
blowing from the south with velocity OF
nine miles. The total rainfall for the dav
was 22-100 inches. Many persons wert
under the impression last night that there
was probability of return of the
| cyclone, when in fact 1t was hundreds Of
miles to the northeast, and was doubtless
wsltzing along the Gulf stream 200 OF
more miles east of the Capes Of Delaware.
When the storm left Charleston and
passed 10 the left OF Smithville, N. c..
| on Tuesday afternoon. its course was
inland to the west of Wilmington. and
thence northeast, passing Fort Macon
and Hatteras, at which points IL broke
| the telegraph lines. and thus isolated
those signal stations as il were. 1t struck
| Kitty Hawk during that night, and at :
O'Clock yesterday morning was immedi-
ately TO the right of Cape Henry, having
| left the land and again
TAKEN TO THE SEA.
At this hour the wind az Wilmington
was northwest, and blowing az the rate of
seven miles per hour, which indicates
that the storm had passed that point.
! The barometer showed an atmospheric