The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-27
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY
WIND AND COLD WAVE.


Mercury Expected to 90 to the Frost
Point This Morning.
Yesterday was raw and windy. The first
cold wave worthy Of the name struck the
city late In the afternoon and caused the
mercury to fall rapidly. A high wind
prevailed during the day, which added TO
the chilliness Of the atmosphere.
The wind reached a velocity of thirty
miles an hour in the asteFnoon and kept
large portion OF the Sunday crowd of the
streets. Ovarooats sad wraps we're very
popular and winter suits took the place of
summer ones. At the park. which was
visited probably by 1000 people tie pre-
oeding Sunday, hardly half hundred peo-
pie were to bs seen at any time during the
day. The Congregations at the churches
were good, nevertheless both morning and
night, and every Body seemed glad that cool
weather had really come.
The wind played havoc with the telegraph
and telephone wires. They were crossed in
many places and in some streets were down
altogether. Signs we're unhinged and blown
into the street and loose window shutters
made lively music for nervous people.
During the heaviest Of the blow Of wind
in the afternoon the tall frame sc6ffold by
the tower of the Independent Presbyterian
church toppled over, and would have fallen
into Bull street bad il not been held by
ropes. A number of people on the street
were attracted by the sight of the swaying
framework and stood watching it for some
q me, expecting that it would fall. Sergt.
killourhy notified the foreman In charge of
the work, and he and others managed to
draw the frame back to the perpendicular,
where 1t was fastened with ropes.
The maximum temperature for the day
was $50 early in the afternoon. but the cold
wave came in, and at o'clock the Their
mometer was rapidly falling and reached
o. by night. The night was crisp and
wintry, and heavy covering was in de-
mand.
The cold wave originated in the western
states Saturday morning and moved slowly
eastward during the day. Yesterday it
moved more rapidly, AID last night its
effects were felt all over the South Atlantic
states, the center of the wave
passing over Tennessee, Kentucky. Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. AS no reports
are recsived at the signal Office here except
from southern points ON Saturday nights,
the observer was Ia ignorance of the cold
wave coming this way and predicted
slightly warmer" for Sunday in all inno-
cence. Temperature was reported as follows
at the places named at 8 o'clock last night:
Knoxville "A, Vicksburg 52', Charleston
So, Memphis 48', Nashville 46s, Atlanta
As Augusta 500, Norfolk 46o, Wilmington
46', Montgomery 90. Texas and the lower
Mississippi valley we're not much affected,by
the wave
The following telegraphic order to hoist
signals was received from Washington:
Hoist cautionary signals at 10 O'Clock. High
pressure and westward Colder. GREELEY
The maximum temperature in the At
lanta district was go as against II in the
Savannah district. The probability is that
the mercury VIII be down to 40 by 6
O'Clock this morning, A light frost is pre-
dfcted for Savannah il the wind is not too
high, and a killing frost In North Georgia
and further northward II there is no frost
this morning it can certainly be relied on
for tonight
The forecast from Washington for the
state says: Fair weather. colder. De-
cidedly SO in southern portion. Frosts
likely to occur Monday night. Northerly
Winds
The signal observer predicts much colder
weather fer to-day and 1t Is pretty safe to
rely on his prediction