The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-18
RELIEF CAME WITH RAIN.
Mercury Was Making a Home Run
When the Storm Came Up.


! The Temperature Within a Fraction
of Degree of Where 1t Was satur-
I dav and Would Have Gone to a Hun
/ dred-The Rainfall Nearly Two aud
a Quarter Inches 49, The Lightning
| Severe and Struck in a Number of
Places 49, Street Cars Damaged and
Travel Interfered with-Ihe Streets
/ Washed and the Sewers Flooded.
| If it had not been for the showers
! yesterday would have broken the record
for hot days. AS u was the mercury went
up to 97.7'. That was between and 3
O'Clock. Observer Smyth said that if the
rain had not come just then the tempera-
ture would beyond a doubt have gone
higher than it did last Saturday, which
was the hottest day OF the month.
When it began to rain it kept at it.
The total rainfall for the day was 2.1S
inches. That was between 3 and 10
o'clock. Over ! "a inches fell between
and o'clock. This is the heaviest rain,
with one or two exceptions, August mas
had in a long time.
If the predictionufor cooler weather did
not justify, as the weather men say. in
the morning or early afternoon, it did
when the rain came. From go the mer-
curry dropped to So. The night was cool
and enjoyable, and people who have been
laying awake for the last week trying to
keep as cool as possible without succeed
ing slept the sleep Of quiet and comfort.
THE CITY IN STORM.
the city early in the evening was the
severest that Savannah has experienced
in long time. The lightning was vivid
and the thunder was severe. The center
of the. storm passed directly over the city.
The lightning, to all appearances, struck
in several places downtown, and good
many thought that some of the Brough-
ton street business houses were
hit, but so far as could be
learned none of them suffered.
1t is likely that the lightning struck
tree or telegraph or electric light pole,
and was carried of by the wires without
damage.
Two cars on the Coast Line between
the city and Thunderbolt became charged
with electricity and had to be lowed into
the Bolton street depot disab led. An
Electric railway car became charged in
front of the Central railroad depot, and
was pushed into the shops for repairs.
The cars will have to be overhauled and
refitted before they can be used again
The incandescent light machinery in the
Brush Company's works was disabled for
short time, and the lights downtown
were cut off. The delay was only short
time, however, and the light was soon
turned on again.
THE STREET RAILWAYS STOPPED.
The greatest trouble was experienced
by the street railway lines, which stepped
several times during the evening from
one cause and another. 1t was nearly
midnight before the schedules were
running on time. The damage to none of
the cars or machinery is great and it will
be repaired in a short time
In the country the storm seemed to be
more severe than it was in the city
Lightning struck in number of places
south of the city. Two trees were shiv-
cred on the White Bluff road and COW
was killed in a lot just beyond Estill
avenue.
The greatest damage in the city as
result Of the storm was by the washing of
the streets and the filling up of the sewers
with sand. One or two sewers burst by
the pressure of water. The streets on the
east and west sides of the city, which
slope down toward the Ogeechee on one
side and toward the Bilbo canal on the
other, were considerably washed. The
odlO III oOLuO pAdCCS az bu6 DObtOIl VI Ju6
streets was foot and a half or two feet
deep and will have to be removed.
TRACKS UNDER WATER.
In the center of the city the street rail
way tracks were under water in places
and the sand was several inches deep on
the rails. Gardens in many parts of the
city were washed and flowers were
broken down, and in many instances
ruined So far as could be learned, there
was little, if any, damage to the crops on
| the truck farms.
Now that there has been break in the
hot spell the weather officers say a let up
may be looked for. Unsettled weather is
predicted for to-day, with occasional
rains, attended by thunder showers, cool
early this morning, followed by rising
temperature.