The morning news., 1889-03-15
SWEEP OF A CYCLONE.
A DANGEROUS STORM DRIVING
UP THE COAST.

Savannah Gets a Touch of 1.-THE
Wind Reaches Velocity of Nearly
Fifty Miles an Hour in the City
Trees Uprooted and Broken Down
and Chimneys Blown Over The
Blow at Tybee-The Worst Storm
There Since 1886.
The signal bureau at II o'clock last night
reported cyclone developing in intensity
off the South Caroliea coast. The wind at
Savannah reached a velocity of forty-eight
miles an hour early in the night 1t began
blowing heavily about noon, and from
o'clock until O'Clock, it averaged thirty
six miles an hour
At10:30 o'clock yesterday morning Signal
Obs 9rver Wright received the following
order from the chief signal office:
WASHINGTON, March IA, 1899, 1918 AN.
Hoist cautionary northeast signals. Storm
OF the Carolina coast; northeast gales.
AT 1880 O'Clock last night the cautionary
signals were changed % northwest storm
signals Violent gales are reported all
along the coast, extending as far as New
York. Storm signals are displayed from
Savannah to Atlantic City, n j.
THE BLOW AT TYBEE.
Signal Observer Evans telephoned from
Tybee at II o'clock that it had been blow
ing gale there all the afternoon. The
weather is thick and the storm was increas-
ing every minute. The wind was from the
north and northeast and came with driv-
ing rain. Nothing like it has been exper-
fenced since the storm of three
years ago. The vessels in the
roads, so far as could be learned, rode out
the storm. The schooner Lizzie Dewey
parted her cables and drifted on Tybee
beach, but was got off.
The storm is apparently moving up the
coast a short distance off shore. There has
been low barometer area off the coast
since Wednesday morning The storm
developed east of Florida and increased
in intensity until it developed into a
cyclone somewhere off Charleston.
THE STORM IN THE CITY.
The highest wind velocity was reached
here about 80 O'clock last night. A driving
rain set in early in the afternoon, and few
people who were not compelled TO be on the
streets ventured out. The blow, which
reached its hight before dark, twisted the
telegraph and telephone wires, blew down
trees and broke off limbs, obstructing the
streets in some places, and covering the
sidewalks with broken branches. A number
of chimneys were blownkover, and signs in
the lower part of the city were torn from
their hangings. The blow lasted for half
an hour, and after that the wind decreased
to 40 miles, and then to 35 miles, and
finally TO 80 miles At midnight it was
blowing in gusts at 36 to 40 miles
The Baltimore steamer Johns Hopkins
and the Boston steamer City of Macon
left their docks at 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
but are supposed to have anchored at
Tybee. The New York steamer. Chatta-
hoochee, left Wednesday afternoon and is
probably ahead of the storm.
THE RAINFALL ON THE COAST.
The greatest rainfall is at Charleston.
Over 215 inches were reportad there
Wednesday aud IA inches yester-
day The rainfall here has been
only about Ia inches since
the storm began. The signal bureau re-
ports show that the rain did not reach as
far north as Norfolk, and it extended west
only to Augusta. Atlanta had fair weather
yesterday. The precipitation for this year
IS good deal above the normal Up to
yesterday, it was about four inches in excess
of last year. Tue average rainfall since
January is 6. 81 inches, the actual amount
which has fallen being 1881 inches. The
weather, so far, has been much colder than
it was the same time year ago. The tenn
perature is 2. So above the normal Mid
weather prevails over almost the entire
country, with the exception of Dakota and
Montana. The temperature there is below
zero.
Besides the coast storm heavy storm is
sweeping across the country from the lower
Pacific coast to the lakes.