The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-07
STORM HELD UP IN THE GULF.
NOT LIKELY THAT 1T WILL REACH
SAVANNAH AT ALL.

Hurricane signals Ordered Down nnd
the Local Indications show No
signs Of Any Uunsuai Disturbance.
saVannahians aud People An the
Surrounding Country We're Pre-
pared for che BIow-Riee Planters
and ShippinE Men Took All the
Precautions They could. and tn
surauee Companies stopped Issu-
ana storm Policies.
The tropical hurricane that was expect
ed 90 reach Savannah yesterday morning
sisd 30, materinlize. nor did 81 come later
81 the day. II Is now thought that e
will not reach Savannah at ALL a. reports
received az the Weather Bureau las
night. indicated that il was on Puntn
Rassa on the FLORIDA Gulf coast. that b,
had Iost considerable OF its energy. and
appeared TO b. dying out. Il Is stili pos
sible that i, may regain hs energy and
strike the Georgia coast. but the proba-
bhity ~ very remote.
The hurricane signals that had been n.y.
ing from the Postofice building and from
the Morning News building since the day
before. were hauled down abous II o'clock,
and the red light denotiug easterly winds
was extingulshed.
There was considerable anxiety during
the day. and the previous night concern
ina the storm. is reported violence, ana
the time thas It nigh, ~ expected 90
reach Savannah; and this anxiety was
very much heightened yesterday by the
high winds that prevailed during the
greater part OF the morning. and which
az 1870 O'Clock. reached in the cisy We
IOcity of twenty-six miles an hour. and
at Ty,hee. a velocity Of thirty-slx miles.
Most 81 the residents or Tybee came up
csi the early morning train. and Il was
expected that the two families who re-
Hained would come up last night. The
Tybce road made preparations to have all
OF its cars brought up from the island
so that should the track be damaged the
rolling stock would be safe At this end Of
che line. The Hotel Tybee the largest
building on the island. had been protect
"a AZ FAR as possible. when Il was closed
for the summer only "A few days ago.
M ANf CITY NNA0 MMNuNsfN OF NfTHNNH
took such precautions as they could think
Of 10 protect their houses and places OF
business from the fury Of the expected
blow These precautions in the majority
OF cases consisted In a strengthening Of
windows and doors and the securing and
placing ready at hand braces to be used
81 necessary. Business signs that were
likely TO sufer from high wind were
also secured ~ far as was possible by
guy ropes. Several Of the wholesale
houses on the bay stopped shipments
during the afternoon. removed all goods
from the sidewalks and dismissed their
drays, but when It was found that the
blow did not develop and that there were
but little II any signs that It would. busI-
mess was generally resumed.
The sky throughout the afternoon gave
little indication Of the approach OF a
Storm: true there were numerous clouds
banked IN more or less thick masses on
the southern and eastern horizon, but
they had not the appearance Of wind
clouds. and hence created but little I'M
caHineHs
The mean temperature for the day was
70 degrees. which Is the normal The
maximum was S degrees and the mini
mum "a degrees. There was a fainfall
OF OF OF an inch up 10 O'Clock Lass night
but quite a hard shower came down short
~ before II o'clock, and there was every
appearance OF more 10 come before
morning
The state forecast is for showers to-day
and probably tomorrow. with fresh 10
brisk east TO northeast winds.