The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-16
TWO INCHES OF RAIN
FELL DURING HEAVY SHOWERS IN
SAVANNAH YESTERDAY.
THE SHIPPING INTERESTS
SERIOUSLY INTERFERED WITH By
CONFINED STEADY RAINS.

Captains of steam and Sailing Ves-
sells Refuse to Take CnrgOes Dur
ing Continuance of Rain-StOrm
StiIl in Alabama and Apparently
Is StatiOnary-PrObab Course
Will BE Up Mississippi VnIIey-A
a Recurve Is No Longer Feared
Here.
Two and a quarter inches of rain fell
in Savannah yesterday, and since Sat
urday morning the rainfall has been
nearly inches. Last night there were
no indications of a cessation. OF the
PA inches which fell yesterday over 1a
inch fell during one shower in the early
morning Showers of greater OF less
duration fell throughout the day and
during the intervals there was gener-
ally fine rain, though scarcely enough
TO be registered by the instruments
of the Weather Bureau.
The indications are that Savannah is
on the edge of the rainy belt the re-
ports received at the Weather Bureau
showing that at Charleston there was
only a trace of rain yesterday.
The temperature here was low, the
maximum being only IS degrees. This
was at o'clock last night. The regis
tering of the maximum temperature
at night is very unusual for this
section of the country and especially
for Savannah, the highest point gene
rally being reached between noon and
o'clock. ! The minimum was 70 de-
gress at l o'clock in the morning.
Rain Interfering With Shipping.
The continued rainfall is seriously in
terfering with shipping, and export
ers are suffering much inconvenience
in consequence, Captains of sailing
and steam craft have refused to re-
ceive any more cargo until the rain
let's up. In the meantime large num-
bers of laborers and longshoremen are
idle and products are piling up in the
warehouses waiting to be loaded.
Nearly all consignments of cotton
now have time limits on sailing and
II the rainy season continues export
ers will suffer from demurrage charges
and possibly claims. If cotton is load
ed into the holds of vessels during
steady rainfall the amount of water
which goes into the hold, together with
that absorbed by the cotton, produces
serious damage, and insurance COM
panieS protest claims for damages
where due care is not exercised in
putting cotton in to the holds of YES
sells in fairly dry condition.
With little indication of an immedi-
ate settlement of the differences be-
tween the shippers and longshoremen
at New Orleans the receipts at Savan-
nah are expected to be largely aug
mented. The Crusader was the first
ship to clear port with export cargo
or cotton. She is consigned to Ham
burg, and had 1000 bales of cotton
on board when she steamed down the
river yesterday afternoon. Messrs
Strachan q Co. were the consigners
This firm also sent out the first cargo
of new cotton from this port last year
52I9 bales being consigned on Sept 6
storm StilI Stationary.
The hurricane which swept acros.
Florida and up into Alabama is still
stationary, and is apparently sow.
where north of Montgomery and south
west of Atlanta. This position is in.
dictated by the direction of the wind,
in the two towns named, as received a
the weather Bureau at $50 last night
There has been practically no move
ment during the day, the storm las
night being in almost exactly the sam,
position that ii was in the morning
The wind velocities in the path of tn,
storm as received last night seem t
show that the hurricane is losing mucl
of its force, a result generally takin;
place when such storms move from tn
water to the land areas.
At to what course the storm will TAX
little of definite nature could be de
termined, owing to the absence of an,
pronounced movement. a low pressur
area which has been moving dow
from the Northwest lies over Iowa, an,