The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-30
THE CITY SWELTERS.
PEOPLE WEARING OUT UNDER
THE BURNING HEAT.

Mercury Up to &C. in Savannah and
the Average for the Cotton District
looo-The Rush to the Seaside and
to the Salsa Great Day at All of
the Resorts-The Heat Broken Last
Night by the storm-Freaks OF the
Lightning.
Yesterday added another day to the long
hot SPELL It was hot, and no mistake. The
heat began early in the day and staid
through. The maximum temperature was
96o, and the average for the whole day was
So, or Sc above normal.
The signal bureaus prediction Of the day
before was fulfilled, and everybody who
could do so got out Of the city. At noon
the streets looked empty and deserted, and
the hotel Hobbies had few loungers, where
they usually have crowds.
The Tybee trains went out crowded.
Many went to the beach in the forenoon,
but the rush from there was in the after
noon. The $50 train carried nine carloads,
and an extra train followed an hour later.
The 5 o'clock train was well filed. The
crowd at the beach was the largest this year.
The hotels and pavilions were alive with
Ocean house to the Hotel Tybee. The surf
was filled with bathers the entire afternoon.
Cobb's Military band concert at the Ocean
house pavilion was an attraction for visitors
at that end of the island. The first train
up to the city was the Augusta special at 5
o'clock. 1t brought up seven carloads, and
the cars were packed. The train leaving the
island at 7:25 o'clock was loaded down and
the last train was thronged.
Txyho bod fba tact hrrU
dreds focked to the other resorts The in
coming City and Suburban trains from
Montgomery, Isle Of Hope and Thunderbolt
were packed, and people were hanging on
the platforms.
A large number of excursionists who
came down on the conductors excursion
Saturday remained over and returned yes
terday. The Central "shoohy" was filled
and a large crowd came down from Lyons
and along the Savannah and Western TO
take dip in the ocean. The Central rail-
road depot was a scene of activity all day.
There was a wide difference between the
breezy resorts and the sweltering heat of
the city. The unfortunates who were COM
PEELED to remain in town did the best they
could to endure the heat, which was felt all
the more severely because of the humidity
of the atmosphere.
The average maximum temperature
throughout the Savannah district of the
cotton region was 100'-the hottest it has
been this year. Eastman reported 104'.
Jesup 1922, Millen 1922, Albany 100, Smith
Vile 1902, Alapaha $50, Bainbridge Sc. One
hundred degrees as an average for a whole
district is almost unprecedented.
The whole southern country was hot, as is
shown by the following maximum tempera-
lures in the different cities: Augusta 1902,
Nashville 9S', Memphis 96', Charleston 94e,
Jacksonville 96', Charlotte So, Wilmington
So, Mobile 96e and Atlanta 90. In no case
was the maximum average for the district
in which these cities are situated less than
the maximum Of the city. and in most cases
1T was greater. The west suffered equally
with the south. st. Louis reported maxi
mum Of $50 and Cincinnati 940.
A special bulletin was sent out from
Washington last night announcing that the
temperature was 17e above the normal at
Grand Haven, Chicago and Davenport, and
that the temperature will continue high in
the Mississippi valley and along the Middle
and South Atlantic coasts to-day. 1t had
fallen 17s at Omaha last night, and relief is
promised for Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
LIZ misery loves company Savannahians
have the whole country to sympathize with
them.
At 10 o'clock last night steady rain set
in. accompanied by heavy electric storm.
The lightning for hours was continuous and
vivid. The binding flashes were followed
by sharp, popping sounds before the peals
OF thunder. The storm was one of the
heaviest Of the summer. The lightning
played havoc with the telegraph and tele-
phone wires and the electric lights.
Twenty-six out Of thirty wires at the West
ern Union Office were burned out. The
lightning ran in on the keyboard, which
was in brilliant blaze. The telephone ex-
change was an uncomfortable place for
awhile. A number Of wires were burned
out and the operation of the exchange was
interfered with. The electric lights wires
caught the lightning, and the lights
were extinguished for some time. The
thunder was heavy, and for awhile was
almost steady roll During the early part
OF the storm the wind reached velocity of
thirty miles an hour. Branches were torn
from trees, and the sidewalks and pave
ments were covered with them. So far as
could be learned up to midnight no serious