The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-12
TW 0 DAYS OVERDUE.
THE CHATTAHoOCHEE 1o4 HOURS
FROM SAVANNAH LAST NIGHT.

The Vessel Supposed to Have Gone
to Sea to Avoid the Storm or to Be
Hove To-The City of Birmingham
Supposed to Be in the Storm-SiR-
nal Observers Think the Storm Is
That Reported of Cuba Last Week
A good deal of anxiety is felt for the New
York steamship Chattahoochee which left
Savannah last Saturday, and up to mid
night last night was two days overdue in
New York. She is supposed to
have struck the storm off the
New Jersey coast Monday morning.
Nothing had been heard of her at the Ocean
Steamship Company's office up to II o'clock
last night. Il is believed that she either
went to sea to avoid the storm, or that she
is hove to.
The Chattaho0chee sailed from Savannah
at A o'clock Saturday afternoon, with
twenty six passengers, mostly Savannah
people, and was due in New York
Tuesday morning. Among her passengers
were Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Germalne and
family; Miss Tyndale and Miss Arthur of
the Fords, who were on their way north to
join their companies, Mrs. Tyndale, Mr..
and Mrs. L. d. Dunbar, I. NJ. Cunningham,
Jr., and r. Wayne Cunningham, Gordon
and Hugh Saussy and Oliver Roberts. At
midnight last night she was l04 hours out.
OTHER STEAMERS OUT
The City of Birmingham left New York
Monday afternoon, and was probably in the
storm. She is due In Savannah to-day
The City Of Augusta left here at o'clock
Monday afternoon, and is due in New York
~to-day.
No vessels have arrived here yet to
give any news of the weather at sea.
The big storm, according to the signal
bureau, has been central off the coast be-
tween Hatteras and Block Island since
Monday The signal observers think it is
the storm reported off Cuba four days ago.
They think that 1t moved up the coast, but
at long distance Off, so that its influence
was not felt here At Hatteras it seems to
have reeurved and is moving in a north
westerly direction toward the Middle
Atlantic coast. Northeasterly gales
of fifty miles an hour We're
reported at Block Island to-day. High
winds have also been reported all along the
coast between Block Island and Norfolk,
the winds being northeasterly on the New
England coast from Portland to New Y ork,
northerly on the jersey coast and north
westerly on the Virginia and North Caro-
lima coasts. Norfolk reported northwest
erly winds of velocity of thlrty-six miles
an hour. The severest portion of the storm
is considerable distance off the coast even
now. The lowest barometer is 1880, at
Cape Henry and Norfolk.
HEADED FOR THE BRITISH ISLES.
The storm, the observers think. has moved
up but little during the last twenty-four
hours. 1t is probable that it will take its
usual course, northeasterly, moving slowly.
the Gulf stream, it is believed, has some influ-
ence upon storms moving across it,and whea
storm leaves the Atlantic coast
its course is generally off to the British
Isles. Only moderate rainfallS have at
tended the storm, the heaviest rainfall be-
ing IA of an inch, reported at Washington.
The weather in the southern ates has
been pleasant for the last three or four days
and the indications are that it will
remain so for the next week
Scarcely any rain fell in the south
ern states yesterday. A few light
showers were reported from the Mississippi
valley. The temperature has been normal
In the SOUTH while in Montana and Dakota
the weather has been very cold. Several
signal stations reported killing frosts at a
minimum temperature of 25' to 30. The
cold wave is advancing southeasterly, and
will probably effect the greater part of the
Atlantic coast. Its influences will hardly
reach as far south as Georgia, however
There was no rainfall reported in Geor-
gia yesterday. So far this year the weather
has been very much cooler than usual, the
temperature being 60.6' below the normal
for the year. The rainfall is $50 inches
above the normal