The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-14

the storm he headed out to sea and faced
the wind. Then, too, he did not meet the
storm until some time after 1t had
reached here, as its progress was rather
slow. On this account il is not to be Won
dered at if the Augusta should come in
several hours late. 1t is probable, how
ever, that she will arrive all right this
morning
Here is the list of those on the Augusta
who have enjoyed the passage through
the storm: Capt. j. G.. Smith, $. 5,
White and wife, Mrs. H. NJ. Conner, Miss
A. Conner Mrs. NJ. Conner, Mrs. L. Conner,
Master j. Conner, Mrs j. W. Lynch,
Mrs. @. Wannbacher, Miss j. +. Mon
lingo, Miss Lewis, Miss Summers. A. NJ.
Sutherland l. Benestine, Miss F. Jones,
Mrs. j. K. Minis, Master b. A. Denmark,
Mrs. F. Drake, r. b Taylor and wife,
Mrs. w. L. Clay, Miss Olive Milton, Miss
E. Morton, Miss p. Comey Mrs Il. f. Stet-
tings, Miss L. Rogers, Mrs. j. Rogers,
II. G West, Il. NJ. Demere, A. A. Thomp-
son and wife, DR. +. H. Nichols and wife,
Miss S. Kohler, Miss r. Kohler, ID.
Kohler, Master A. Kohler, Master +.
Goodrich, Mrs. A Goodrich, Jno. w.
Weld, Miss X. Naughtin, c. M. Style,
Miss A. St. Clair, NJ. II. Henderson, j. :.
Baker, Il. L. Cox, @. w. Reynolds, c.
Heath, A. G. Cruise, j. Fitzgerald, Jacob
Light, 0. Askew, r. Paine, Juo Jenette,
j. Murphy, Jno Oman, Master Thomp-
son, Mrs. l. Jackson, Mrs. A. +. Jones,
and "a Storage passengers,
SOME TROUBLE WITH THE WIRES.
The storm did not pass without doing
some damage TO the wires There was
trouble with all the lines to the south
night before last, but that damage was
soon repaired and last night they were
working all right again. But the wires
= n in, h.,r IA g,fF h.
storm suffered accordingly. Last night
it was impossible to get straigt connec-
tlon with Washington, and all reports
from there came in a roundabout way.
This was caused by the wires being
down somewhere in Virginia, probably
between Richmond and Washington.
This caused some delay in the reports
from the signal service headquarters, and
some Of them failed to come altogether
To the north and west, however. the con
nections were all in order
The telephone wires are working badly,
probably as a result of the blow. There
is nothing else TO attribute their bad con
dition to. 1t is almost impossible to get a
good connection, in some directions at
least and the sound over the wires is
almost inaudible.
The vessels, tugs and other craft in the
Central railroad slip were crowded in
there so closely that they met with much
difficulty in getting out yesterday morn
ing after the storm was over 1t was
clock IN the afternoon before they all
got out into the river again.
PROM AN OFFICIAL STANDPOINT.
BY the record of the storm. as taken
from the weather bureau, il can readily
be seen why it was not more severe in
Savannah. The storm passed this lati-
tude, 32' 8, moving northward yesterday
morning 1t about clock. The storm cen
ter passed about $50 miles to the east of Sa-
vannah, and moved over the South Caro-
lima coast north of Charleston about
o clOCk yesterday morning II had moved
across North Carolina last night and at
3 o'clock was central somewhere in Vir-
ginia.
The maximum velocity of the wind yes
terday at Wilmington, n. c., was So miles
an hour, at Charleston A. miles, and here
% miles
Owing to the absence of telegraphic re
ports from stations north of Wilmington.
il was difficult last night to locate def
nitely the center of the storm. The few
reports that were received indi-
Gated that the storm was a
severe one. A later report stated
that the storm was in Virginia north
west of Norfolk. At O'Clock last night
the barometer at Washington registered
29.O6 inches pressure and rain was fall
ing at Augusta, Knoxville, Nashville.
Atlanta, Chicago and Washington An
area Of high pressure is moving in from
the northwest. From all accounts the
storm seems to have been far more severe
IN other places than it was at this point