The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-22
THE COURSE or TIE STORM.
BLEW IS Miles in Savannah and 90
SEiIcs at Tybce Yesterday.

Blew 3S Miles ia Savannah and 60
Miles at Tybce Yesterday.
The information signal was run up at
the weather station at 10 o'clock day be-
fore yesterday, but yesterday at the same
hour it was lowered and in it's stead the
two red flags with the black squares in
the center We're nuttering IN the strong
wind, to show that hurricane was in
the line OF expectations.
The appearance of this signal naturally
caused considerable apprehension, and
some question of the storm was on every
lip during the day. Inquiries at the
weather bureau, both in person and by
telephone, were frequent. Observer She
rier says that the telephone bell was al
most in constant peal, aud the visitors
TO the office to ascertain the latest news
of the storm, he estimated q about 1900.
one man rang the observer up and was
evidently laborng under excitement that
must have been positively painful. He
wanted to know if the storm would not
set here at 3.15 o'clock. Though some
what staggered by this tho observer soon
recovered sufficiently to inform his ques-
toner that the service has not yet reach
ed degree Of perfection that viii admit
of it's being able to map out schedule
for the arrival of every gale.
Immediately after having hoisted the
signal Mr. Sherier began notifying the
vessels in port Of the danger impending.
This is q course that is always followed
by the bureau people in order to pre-
vent the vessels from putting to sea with
the probability OF a hurricane in store.
The signal from The chief OF the signal
service al Washington that caused the
flags TO be hoistcd vas as follows:
washington, d. G.. 1900 a. m, Sept
q. 1857-HOist hurricane signals 10 a. n.
storm central in Northern Florida, NOV
ing northeast. Notify all vessels that it
is unsafe to leave port. Moore
mir. Sherier prepared his map to indi-
cate the conditions over this entire Soc
ton las. night after the receipt OF the re-
ports from Washington. An area of high
pressure was shown over the Ohio river
region, but down off the eastern coast
Of Florida, apparently about $50 miles out
was marked the word low" to indicate as
wen as could be judged the position then
occupied by the center OF the storm. This
center passed across the state of Florida
during the day. 1t was a Tampa night
before last, where the barometer stood
at 29.T6. Last night, however, after the
passage Of the center from the neighbor,
hood, the mercury had taken climb,
and registered 1886. But, while the ba-
rometer was rising at Tampa, it was act
ing differently here ana at other places,
as the storm center was gradually APP
preaching. At Jacksonville the registra.
ton of the instrument was 1886, and here
is had sunk from 1904 10 1896. At the time
this observation was taken it's limit did
not appear to have been reached by any
means, rs it was still on strong down
ward trend
High northeasterly winds prevailed all
along the coast, and the gusts became so
violent at times as to induce the fear that
the storm was about 10 burst in all ITS
fury Nothing approaching hurricane We
locity was attained, however. The high
est registration that was made was thirty
eight miles an hour. At Charleston the
velocity was higher than here The wind
there was moving along at the hot pace
of forty-six miles an hour. Tybee, as
usual was getting the worst of the en-
tire blow. There is a station there for
wind velocity observations, and the In
sirument showed that sixty miles was the
rate at which he sand was being sifted.
The coolest town IN all the vast area
from which the reports are sent in % the
weather bureau was Savannah. Surplus
ing as it may seem, the minimum temper
atrre here, which was IS degrees, taken
a few minutes Before clock, was Tower