The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-27
STORM WENT TO SEA.
Savannah Escaped With Lit
tie Damage.
TYBEE ISALL RIGHT.
The Greatest Damage Feared to
the Rice Crop.
C0VERSA WIDE TERRITORY,
Warning Of It's Approach Saved Thou
sands Of Dollars Of Property.
COVERSA WIDE TERRITORY.
Warning Of It's Approach Saved Thou
sands Of Dollars Of Property .
ALL OF THE SHIPPING TIED UP.
A Ddu of Anxiety on the
Coast

The West India cyclone, which has
been awaited for several days with much
anticipation Of disaster aud possible loss
10 life and property, has passed without
doing serious damage
II was a heavy and long continued
blow but the predictions of alarmists
failed to be reali ed in any instance.
Fortunately for Savannah the storm cen
ter passed at a sufficient distance
10 the eastward to save the
city from its most serious eff
fects and the fortunate veeriag Of the
wind to the northwest late in the after
noon prevented the piling up Of water in
the overlooking CT the wharyes and the
flooding Of the rice fields
1t is now believed that the damage to
the rice crop is small. The planters will
be glad to escape with slight less when
such serious damage was anticipated.
DAY OF ANXIETY.
Although little damage was done the
storm was not to be sneczed at and the
prospect was very threatening one all
day. The expectation that the storm
would prove most severe about o'clock
in the afternoon, at high tide, was suf-
ficient to cause great anxiety among bust
ness men, especially the naval stores buy
ers who had large stocks of rosin and
turpentine on the wharves. General
anxiety was felt as to the possible re-
suits OF the storm, which
was not diminished until a late
hour last night. Many anxious people
sat up until midnight expe citing every
minute to have the roofs blown from
above their heads. BY midnight, how
ever, the storm had passed east of Savan-
nah and was continuing its way north
ward with the prospect of striking the
South Carolina coast north of Charles
ton and passing northward through North
Carolina. The wind was still blowing a
brisk gale at o'clock, but the rain had
nearly ceased and it was evident that the
storm was passing away High winds
will probably continue this morning, grad
ually dying away in the afternoon.
A THREATENING. PROSPECT.
Yesterday morning opened with fall
ing barometer and the wind blowing
twenty-four miles an hour from the
northeast. A heavy rain was falling
driven with force by the wind and max
ing pedestrianism both unpleasant and
difficult. The barometer continued TO
rail- during the morning and the velocity
OF the wind to increase At noon the
barometer stood at 29.6S with the
wind blowing thirty-six miles an hour
from the northeast. Every one prepared
~ tha a,,l4 . 1,
was that Savannah was about to expert
ence one Of the worst storms of its
history. The rain was swept in sheets
through the streets, and umbrellas
proved worse than useless. Occa sionally
the wind would take sudden starts and
come in gusts of from so to 90 miles an
hour. Fortunately these gusts did not
last long, or great damage would have
resulted. AT O'Clock the average veloc-
ity Of the wind had increased TO AZ miles
an hour from the north and the barome-
ter still falling Between l and
o'clock it reached its hight,
maximum of 40 to 4S
miles an hour being maintained
for the greater part of the time, an ex
IRENE velocity Of sixty miles an hour be-
ing reached occasionally.
THE SHIFT OF THE STORM.
The barometer continued to fall slowly.
but steadily during the entire afternoon.
and the wind blew at velocity Of from
thirty-eight TO sixty miles an hour. 1t
was variable, however, appearing to come
from every direction, but chiefly from the
northeast until after o'clock. when it
veered TO the north and fire.
quently 20 the northwest OBJ
server Smyth at once announced this
as favorable sign, showing that the
storm was passing to the eastward of Sa-
vannah, and that its full force would not
be felt here. His prediction was verified
by o'clock when the wind settled down
steadily from the northwest, showing
that the storm had passed this latitude
and was on its way to the northward.
The following are barometer readings
and the wind velocity and direction from
o'clock a. N. until midnight: