The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-09-04
THE TRACK OF THE STORM.
An Official Statement of the Origin
and PrOgrcSS Of the Hurricane

All oHclai statement of the Origin
ana Progress ofthe Hurricane.
The central Office of the weather
bureau at Washington gives the fol-
lowing detailed information with re-
gard to the track of the hurricane
which played such havoc along tho
Atlantic coast:
The storm was first observed last
Friday morning, at the meteorological
stations in the West Indies and Ba-
hamas, moving westward, as is the
universal rule with storms of this
character. 1t passed Nassau during
Saturday night. Shaping its course
toward the northwest, it crossed the
Florida channel and struck the Florida
coast Sunday in the vicinity of Titus
vile. 1t then skirted the coast, turn
ing more to the north, and laid waste
the Florida and Georgia coast from
Titusville to Savannah. The yerv cen
ter OF the storm, which had probably
been outside the coastline up to this
point, passed over Savannah shortly
after midnight
Asa rule these hurricanes turn to the
northeast before reaching the latitude
of Savannah. This one, however,
struck inland at this point and follow
ed the Savannah river nearly to Au-
gusta 1t then turned to the northeast
and Its center passed near Charlotte
and Lynchburg and on to Washing
ton. The latter point was passed dur
ing Monday night. The storm then
turned again to the direct north and
traversed Pennsylvania and New York,
the center going near Harrisburg and
Utica. After passing the latter point
the path of the storm detected rapidly
toward the east, and Northern Ver-
mont and New Hampshire were crossed.
Tuesday night the hurricane passed
through Maine, bound for the Grand
Banks. It's course, after leaving our
shores, will doubtless be laid some
what north of east across the Atlantic,
and most probably it's effects will ul-
timately be felt on the coasts of Ice
land.
The concentrated energy of this
storm can be judged from the fact that
in Atlanta not drop of rain fell and
the wind was only an ordinary gale of
forty miles an hour, while the storm
center OF such terrific force was on the
Savannah river only $50 miles away.
10 those who have sailed the sea the
| fact will be significant that at the pass.
| ing OF the storm center the baron eter
at Savannah fell to 1913 inches. AT
Atlanta at the same moment the pres.
sure was 20.7, showing a gradient OF
| one lnch In loI miles. 1T is probable
that the path within which the storm
was of destructive force was not Over
three hundred miles in width.
The path of the hurricane is an un
usual one in the fact of its detection tc
the west above Savannah and to the
north above Washington. 1t will be
seen that in just three days our entire
coast was devastated, from Florida tt
Maine.
The fact of the track lying withir
the cOastline above Savannah may hav,
added to the storms destruction, ever
on the seaboard from this fact: The
winds on the coast were inshore ant
rendered the escape OF vessels to tn,
open sea especially difficult. The sam,
cause also drove the water into th,
harbors and wrecked wharves ant
docks. The West India hurricane i
always destructive storm, but it i
doubtful If any of its predecessor.
caused heavier loss along the soutl
Atlantic coast than this recent visitor