The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-20
WIRES IN A BAD TANGLE.
THE STORM PLAYS HAVOC WITH
THE TELEGRAPH LINES.

Charleston and Many Other Southern
Points Cut OF From Communica-
ton With the North and West.
Frustrated Telegraph Poles and
Wires Impede TRAFFIC on the Rail-
roads
CHARLESTON, 5. c., Jan. Richardson
was completely cut off to-day from all tele-
graphic communication north and west
The only connections possible tonight at 10
o'clock are with Savannah and Jackson
willie. The Western Union wires are down
from Florence to Charleston, 1OS miles, and
for miles along the South Carolina road
from Charleston to Augusta.
This morning the regular passenger train
on the South Carolina railroad was delayed
greatly by telegraph poles and wires which
had been blown across the track, and it was
necessary to send wrecking train ahead Of
the passenger before the latter could move.
The Postal telegraph wires are also pros
trated. Liuemen have been sent out to re-
pair the damage, but the telegraph man
sger here says it will take a week or ten
days to get the wires on the South Carolina
line In good working order again. 1t is
hoped that connection will be made north
by the Atlantic Coast Line.
To-day there has been practical suspen-
sion Of business on Change and the bulls
and bears have nursed their FROST bitten fin
gers while counting their chances on the
Hatch bill.
The weather here to-day has been very
wet aud raw. The thermometer tonight Is
at the freezing point with indications Of
snow tomorrow and another cold wave. Re-
ports from the state show that South Caro-
lina has rot had such severe weather for
forty years.
sLEET AT AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA, Ca, Jan. 19.-The snow last
night turned into sleet aud rain, and the
streets are 3 or inches deep in slush.
Business is almost suspended and much
damage has been done to houses. the tre-
mendous weight on the roofs causing breaks
and leakage.
BEATS TBE RECORD AT MELRosE.
MELROsE, FLA, Jan. 19.-The Oldest in
habitant cannot remember such q winter
as this has been since the cold weather set In
just after Christmas. There has been only
few days since the first of the month that
ice has not formed. There has been colder
days in previous winters than any we have
had so far this winter but tt would not last
longer than few hours or a day then off
turn of warm for swo or three weeks.
The fruit on lowlsnds and in exposed
places is probably damaged to some extent,
but on the sand hills and high hummocks
no damage has been done. 1t takes 26e to
freeze oranges on the trees in an ordinary
winter, but they will probably stand Sc
more cold after suc5 a continuous cold spell
as we have had this winter. The cold
weather created such demand for stoves
that the stock in Jacksonville was exhausted
some time ago.
THE FREEZE IN ALACHUA.
GAINESVILLE, FLA, Jan. l9.--The wealth.
er since Jan, has been the most incom-
prehensible and dishesrtening that ever Wis
tied this section. 1t has been raining and
freezing during the eighteen days since New
Year. The rain would fall, the sun would
come out and tue next morning everything
would have coating OF frost or ice. How
the truck has been able to stand it is a
mystery to all. There are so many con-
fllctiug reports as TO the damage done to
oranges that one can hardly make
up a correct report. Your correspondent
has found no frozen oranges up to this time
in this locality, and has heard of but one or
two where they were injured, but why,
with the mercury at 20' and 220 above, is
more than the oldest ventures to say.
little rain fell again this morning and we
are looking for north winds bringing an
other cargo Of ice with them in the morn
ing. All work on the farms is suspended, as
the owners do not care to stir the
soil and it is impossible to get
the negroes to leave their cabin fires. The
standing, mutely awaiting the lfe-giVing
heat of the sun, but it comes not. How
long they can stand it no one seems to
know. The telephone line from Micanopy,
via Arredondo and Rocky Point, has been
completed. and the truckers are jubilant
over the convenience.
SNOW AND sLEET IN WASHINGTON.
TENN1LLE, Ga, Jan. Washington
county has been visited with the severest
af0 hat hoc elf had
section tor thirty years. Yesterday was
the first whole days snow that any of us
ever experienced in this latitude. About
dark the rain began from the east and the
most of 1t froze for an hour or 80, and the
consequence is that everything exposed has
heavy coat of ice on 1t, and tags Of ice
from to inches long are pendant on the
trees. Fruit trees are damaged very
much by breakage, and Ten
Miles park presents a weird scene
and is strewn with broken limbs; of course
the foresU is badly torn by the ice; but there
Is but little travelling done from the coun-
try, and a correct idea OF the damage can
only be surmised. Some of our merchants
have suffered from inattentton to the accu-
mutation of snow and sleet on their roofs
and in cutters, causing overtows, which
have damaged their goods very considera-
bly,, but the damage: cannot be accurately
estimated at this time. AS our people are
not accustomed to seeing 80 much snow
fall, they did not apprehend danger from
its accumulation. We have not heard OF any
suffering from the cold and now that the
thaw has set in and the rays Of the sun oc-
casionally slip through the riffs OF the clouds
Wep resume che danger point is past.
All traffic is suspended. the country peo-
pie have no desire TO tackle the slush, and
the town folks are content 80 keep warm.
Your correspondent could but admire the
administration OF Mayor MoDonough and
congratulates Savannah on his reelection.
he is right, enforce your laws or repeal
themn