The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
WITH GLARE OF ice
STREETS OF SAVANNAH WE'RE
COVERED DURING ENTIRE DAY.
ONE FATALITY REPORTED.
UNKNOWN NEGRO FOUND FROZEN
TO DEATH EARLY IN THE
MORNING.

| slippery Streets Made walking Diff
ficuIts and Many People Fell.
Horses Slipped Despite Iron Shoes.
Houses and Trolley Cars Lined
with IcicIes-Thc Coats of Motor
men Sheets of Ice-BrisI< North
west Wind Made weather Seem
Colder Than 1t Really WASHER
cury's Record in Snvannah-Rec-
ord of Previous Januaries.
At midnight last night mercury
stood a fraction of degree below the
26 degree point. This marked the clos
ing of one of the bIeakest, coolest and
! most disagreeable winter days that
| Savannah has experienced in many
years.
lcicles were hanging from houses
and public buildings and there was a
complete fringe of them about the tops
of the trolley cars. The streets in
| nfany places were covered with a thin
coating of ice and a northwest wind
blowing at fifteen miles an hour made
| the day seem all the colder One IA
tality, an unknown negro, is reported
To make the day even drearier and
| colder at II o'clock in the morning a
| drizzling rain began falling, changing
gradually to sleet and freezing as
rapidly as it fell. AT 12:45 o'clock the
rain ceased, leaving the streets a glare
of ice and making walking a precarious
undertaking. From then until $40 in
the afternoon there was no rain, but
at that hour the sleet and rain began
| falling again, continuing until shortly
after 5 o'clock. The total amount of
rain and sleet which fell was only .O5
of an inch, just sufficient to make a
thin coating of ice over the pavements.
Streets Glare of Ice.
The afternoon was one of the bleak
est and dreariest imaginable. The
skies were dull heavy gray, and
Enlightened by even a few moments
sunshine. From the ewes of all the
houses small icicles hung and the
water at the bottom of the spoutings
was frozen into small ice-lake. In
| the outlying districts small ridges of
| ice lined the fences and from the
branches of the trees and the points
of the magnolia leaves small icicles
| hung their very existence making the
air seem chillier.
| Ice cleaned on all the pavements.
| The brick paving was especially dam
! gerous to pedestrians. Many slipped
and fell during the afternoon though
no serious injuries were reported.
Stone steps were particularly danger
Gus and many leaving their homes
| were dropped unceremoniously to the
| pavement.
For the horses the streets were al
most equally as bad the glazed as
phalt affording no hold for even their
iron-shod feet. Many telephone calls
| were sent to police headquarters ask
| ing that some one be sent to help
horse regain its feet. The greater
number of those telephonng were
| ladies.
MOtOrmen's Coats Sheets of Ice.
\ wind from the northwest blew
during the entire day with a velocity
of fifteen miles an hour. This added
greatly to the general discomfort
colder than it really was. From this
the motormen on the trolley cars We're
| the greatest sufferers, being compelled
to drive all day in the teeth of the
| wind, and flying rain and sleet. Many
of them stepped from their cars at
| the end of a run with a solid sheet of
ice frozen down the front of their
| long, rubber coats.
Next to the motormen the poor were
probably the greatest sufferers. In
| the outlying districts the light houses
were entirely unprotected, and the wind
| whistled bleakly through the cracks in
! the doors and windows. There was
| great demand for fuel and places of
| shelter were filled during the entire
| day. Where Workmen were engaged
| in the open air fires were kent briskly
burning in all sorts OF receptacles and
| around this the workmen were huddled
for the greater part of the time.
| One Fatality Reported.
Early Yesterday morning an I'M
known negro was found frozen stiff
near Cattle Park. The find was made
| by another negro, who at once noti-
| fed the police. Assistance was at
| once sent to the scene, but the negro
| had been dead several hours when
| found. Coroner Keller was notified
and made a cursory examination. He
will make a further examination to-
day.
| The Thermometer Records.
The highest point reached by mer-
| curry was the freezing point, the reg
! istration shortly after midnight. From
that hour on it fell slowly, but ste9d-
lily, and at midnight stood at 26 de-
grees. At that hour it was still fall
ing, and before morning will probably
have reached 25 or "a degrees. The
following is the record of the day as
registered at the Weather Bureau:
1905 a. m. (Monday) .....32 degrees
! From l until $50 o'clock. 81 degrees
| From Z until 10 o'clock. 80 degrees
| From IL a. m. till p. m. .29 degrees
| From until o'clock. degrees
| From until O'Clock. .....27 degrees
| At o'clock %, m......26 degrees