The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25
MERCURY MOUNTING Up.
SAVANNAHIANS HAVE a TASTE
OF HOT WEATHER.

Ninety-four Degrees Yesterdays High-
est Temperature - Savannah the
Coolest Place But One in the Cotton
Belt District-A Lively Thunderstorm
Shuts Of the Mercury at Its Highest
Point-Lightning' Freaks at the City
Hospital Grounds.
Savannahians are having plenty of
weather Just now. Yesterday was not the
hottest day Of the season but it was plenty
hot enough. The highest that the mercury
went was "a but that was early in the
afternoon, and there is no telling how high
it would have gone if the rain storm that
came up about that time hadn't stopped it.
Yesterday was a big day for going some
where, and the greater part Of Savannah
went to Tybee. Warsaw, Thunderbolt, Isle
OF Hope and Montgomery. The outgoing
trains were filed and the incoming trains
last night were crowded. There was rush
to Tybee and the surf was filled with
bathers the entire afternoon. The Warsaw
steamer was crowded. on every trip. In the
city people who DIDN'T go 70 church, stald
indoors and kept as cool as they could.
The hot wave is rolling over the entire
country. The maximum temperature of
the thirteen stations in the Savannah dis
trict of the cotton belt was &C., and the
lowest was To-. Eastman was the coolest
place in the district, and there mercury
lowered around the go mark all the after
noon. Waycross was the hottest place, and
there mercury went up TO lC0' Alapaha
reported 90, cambridge o., Jesup, Quit
man and Townsville 9S', and Millen and
Live Oak, Fla, 90. Augusta, Ga, and
Wilmington, y. c., each reported ~ and
Charleston So.
Charleston seems to have been the coolest
place in the south and the Charlestonians
enjoyed a cool and breezy day. y
Broughton street man who has been watch
ing the Chicago bulletins very closely, said
that the hot wave is the result Of the re-
publican convention.
This week is likely to bring with it
hotter weather than has been experienced
any time this season. The signal service
men say that from Tuesday to Friday
mercury viii run pretty high, and then
there will be falling off.
The city was visited with terrific thun-
derstorm in the afternoon, the overcharged
clouds discharged an electric bolt at 5
o'clock that was one Of the most powerful
known even to the oldest inhabitant. Peo-
pie were shocked all over the city, women
screamed, piazzas were deserted windows
broken and thousands Of people we're fright
ened. The electric light wires received part
of the electric bolt, which defying the light
ming arresters at the Electric light works,
ran in and DESTROYED one of the incandes-
cent dynamos and throwing off the heavy
belt which drove the dynamo as if it were a
mere feather weight. Superintendent Keck
informed a MORNING NEWS reporter last
night that the damage would not exceed
$50. and the repairs could be made without
sending the dynamo north. This is the
third dynamo destroyed by lightning this
summer
The fire alarm wires received a portion of
the electricity, and box No Is, at Broughton
and Price streets was burned out. The
electricity also ran in on the fire alarm wire
and destroyed the private magnet and
gong in the residence of W. G. Thompson.
one of the night call men of the No.
engine company, at No. ~ Jones street.
The gongs in the engiue houses struck, and
the horses ran out to the engines.
A large water oak in the back yard of the
City hospital was struck, and where the
bolt entered the ground it tore hole foot
in diameter, aud the conclusion broke the
basement windows on the north and south
sides of the building.
The sound produced by the clap was
almost deafening, and sounded like the
simultaneous discharge Of a battery of
artillery. followed by reverberations which
lasted minute or more. The thunder was
preceded by a hot and binding flash of
lightning, almost simultaneous with the
thunder.
The fire alarm wires were promptly put
in working order, and the final test was
made at 10 o'clock last night AL the
boxes were then found to be in good work
ing condition.