The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-10
THREATENED BY A CYCLONE.
o,yGERoUs STORM REPORTED
IN THE GULF.

D,..ction Uneertain-StOrm Sig
- MISPLACED All the Way From
,,outh of the mississippi River
Norfolk, Va.-The LOwlands
md savannah Flooded by the
,..,, Tide-shippinG Made Fast
"a vnny People Prepare for
BLOW.
csa news of another storm in the Gull
.,-l,. TO move in this direction, caused
L-r,sbians considerably uneasiness
9'..-7,, afternoon and last night. The
4t.r was threatening all day, and the
w, signals over the weather bureau
s. w. aid not tend to allay the anxiety
1t.2o o'clock last night the following
.-r.+in was received by Observer Sher-
~ from Washington:
,.-r1sre is storm apparently central
..,++ of Florida, likely to cause danger
Winds off the coast. Direction of the
-, uncertain, but it is dangerous for
.ss1s TO leave port. Danger signals are
,,snlaved at all ports from the mouth OF
w. Mississippi to Norfolk"
o'clock the barometer pressures
ar the Florida Peninsular were
s,r,ewhat lower than those
I'm in the morning, but
was no decided fall. The winds
WV. fresh. the velocities ranging from
20 miles per hour, and rain had been
roraI Something over an inch fell at
T,,, West and not quite an inch at Jack
sonyille.
The barometers continues high over the
.ortbeast. but the high pressure area has
.5,.anced from the lower lakes to the
>,,,r England coast. Northeasterly winds
a-ovai,ed over the Atlantic and east Gulf
a.osts with the highest velocities along
,bo Middle Gulf. Thirty miles per hour
..s recorded at Port Eads, and &c miles
81 New Orleans. The greatest velocity
o++aned at Savannah, was 26 miles per
hour. -, , .,.,
The vessels in port were all moored with
evtra lines last night, when it became ru-
,norad that another storm was approach
inc Several of the vessels have
M vet recovered from the last storm A
-,,,nber have been loaded and cleared with
argoes for foreign ports, but have been
5ot9ined on account of making the neces-
sarv repairs before going to sea.
The tide was unusually high, covering
+ba lowlands and portions of Hutchinson's
Island and flooding the wharVes IN places
along the river front. The damage to the
rics fields. in case of the breaking of the
banks. will be considerable.
Fvervbody was interested yesterday in
the weather indications, and visits to the
bureau were constant. The hosting of
the information signal, in connection with
the ugly local weather, Influenced many
10 20 lust to see what it meant.
The chief observer at Washington in
strncted Observer Sherier to forward re-
Dorts at noon and at 8 o'clock. These
reports showed observations of twenty
four miles an hour as the winds greatest
velocity. The extremely high tide was
caused by the banking of the water up
the rivers mouth by the fresh northeast
wind.
The information signal was hoisted on
the board of trade building at 1O:40 a. m.
The signal was also displayed at Cedar
KEYS. Jacksonville Charleston, Whining
ton, Morehead and Washington. Condi-
tons were said to be threatening to the
southwest of Florida, but at that hour no
storm was in sight.
The information signal remained UP I'M
til ) o'clock when the storm signal was
hoisted. The following telegram was re-
ceiyed from Washington at that hour:
Hoist storm northeast signal at Pensa-
cola, Cedar Keys Tampa, Punta Gorda,
Key West, Miami, Jupiter, Jacksonville,
jacksonville section, Savannah, Savan-
nah section, Charleston, Charleston
section, Wilmington, Wilmington section,
NOrehead, Washington, Norfolk, Norfolk
section, Newport News. Conditions un-
usually threatening on the Florida and
South Atlantic coast. All vessel masters
should be informed that it is unsafe to
leave port There are indications of a
tropical storm in the East Gulf and also
of the East Florida coast which may de-
yelop into dangerous cyclone. although
The winds, as yet, are light to fresh at
coast stations"
All kinds of reports were current over
the city about the storm and one could
hear that Key West had been wiped off
The face of the earth, that Jacksonville had
been demolished, that any number of yes
ses had gone ashore on the Florida reefs,
and dozen other stories.
All this was without foundation The
Indications sent out by the bureau only
showed that danger of a storm was i'm
Mhent. II merely holds the conditions
on the Florida east and west coasts as
threatening, and sufficiently so to put
Inc people on their guard. Danger sig
nals are displayed at all ports from the
mouth Of the Mississippi river to Norfolk,
good many people made preparations
ast night for the coming of the storm,
they could.
me thousands of damaged roofs in the
cNy would allow great damage in case of
ruFVng storm and heavy rain.
me western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny INES were broken in many places, and
very little business was handled during
the night.