The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-07

wae by the in-t Congress permanently
Adopted ne part ~ oar National Wealth
s- Bureau. on account 81 ia benenceuf
application 90 the peacefui wave of ira BE-
ana oommcrce Without the reporting
statiou- 81 the new service the Weather
Bureau would have boon uuahlc 90 de-
tect the Inception ~ the Galveston hur-
ricere when % vas only q harmless storm.
and when lt reached t1e intensity OF a
hurricane 10 issue timely warnings IN
advance Of IT'S coming
Hero Of the weather Rureau.
The press dispatches state that Dr
Isaac NJ Cline the chief oficcr Of the
weather Bureau in Texas was one Of
enc horotc spirits of that awful hour. that
under instructions from Washington he
ho.Tted the danger signals on Friday. and
that in addition 20 warning che people hy
Telegraph and telephone. he went person
ally among those on tho hcnch on Satur-
day morning and long before the waters
rolled over che city was driving enc people
from their houses 90 highcr ground 10 tho
center ~ thc place that when the last
means of communication with the outer
world had fadod instead OF following the
advice - friends ard going fo the relief
~ his own family. he bravcl tho wind and
raging waters ana reached Ger ain tele-
phone station at the end OF e bridge Just
before the cable parted Hc succeeded
ia sending out from the doomed city the
last message that was fransmittd Tor scv-
eral DAYS In this message he Indicated
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Tho disaster 10 Galveston promp,a the
Inquiry as to whether or not che city Is
again liable to such e visitation Between
July aud October. intIu-iv. there are an.
uually about ten tropical sorms that
touch some portion Of our Atlantic or
Gull coasts on an average. less than
one per annum a. severely destructive
Most OF them are Of such "a nature that IL
timely warnirna be. Issued Utge damage
results Az 10 the frequency with which
these storms Nisit the gulf 10 may be
SAID that list ~ storms carefully rre-
pared hv the late nr Increase A Lap
ham OF Wisconsin. and used hv him as
one Of The arguments for the inauguration
OF "a government storm-waruing service
moro than thirty years ago shows that
from fNl1 10 1870 sen hurricanes reached
tensi,v 60 marked "a tn leave authentic
records IN the locnI annals Of the region
This te an average 81 one In seven vcars
= nee ths. organization OF tho National
Weather Service in tsso che average of one
severe storm An thia region in seven wears
has ben maintained. but no other storm
has left such an appalling record as the
one OF Sent 4 and it is not probable that
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