Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-01-19
DIFFERENCE IN PRESSURE.

Jan. II, l9l4.--....--.,--...-- 5U SE
DIFFERENCE IN PRESSURE.
Few persons understand the ef-
feet of atmospheric pressure under
conditions found in the arid country.
The light air took the edge of the
force OF the impact which would
have been disastrous at sea level. ow-
ing to the greater density Of the at
mosphere. The barometer reading
was the lowest known in Tonopah,
the mercury dropping to 29.6, com
puted from the official standard of
sea level The actual reading here
was "a, but the weather bureau pre-
serves all records on the sea level
basis, which would account for the
difference between the actual and the
appareIe pressure. This morning
the barometer has reacted to the.
normal of 30. The high wind was
due to the storm in Northern Cali
fornia and the fair weather in the
interior, which caused a loW center
to which the winds from all creation
rushed as into vacuum and caused
the upheaval in local real estate
About o'clock furry of snow ac-
companied the gale, but II sub
sided or was carried off to the
coast, whence it returned by a cir
cuitous route by IL o'clock and CON
I tinued to spit forth furious bliz-
zardettes at brief intermissions. At
o'clock in the morning it began to
look like Chicago on December morn,
with the snow coming down at rate
that caused householders 10 think of
big day shoveling. The snow did
not last long and the entire precipi-
tation was only a fraction of an
inch, according to Observer Piercy
Ct the weather bureau.
SIX SMALL HLAzEs CHECKED.
The wind kept the entire town in
a state of nervous expectancy and
had a fire broken out a thousand
men would have been on the spot as
fast as their legs could carry them
Few property owners with any
sense of responsibility went to sleep
Saturday night, as they felt the
town might be in jeopardy at any
moment. Had fire started in the
southeastern quarter, nothing in the
world could have checked its pro-
gress. Knowing this Poke Kelly,
fire chief, had two extra men
stationed in the cupola to look ont
for incipient blazes and two men on
the floor were on duty all through
the night, attending to calls from
reckless householders who allowed
their stoves to burn too briskly I'M
I'll they shot flames out of the safe
ties, to the great danger of surround
ing property. One of these cases
occurred at the Golden Eagle hotel,
another at the office of the water
company another at the Cosmopoli-
tan bar. one on Corona street. one
at Hills house on Burro avenue
back of the fire station, and the
worst at an Italian boarding house
next the rear of the Palace hotel on
Mineral street All these blazes
] were detected by the lookouts in
the cupola and men with chemical
eXtinguishers sent out to remove the
cause of danger. In every case the
firemen made the people oxtinguish
fires in the offending stoves com
pletely for the night, and not TO light
them again. On Mineral street Chief
!, Kelly personally attended to the
trouble and had to use force TO bring
the occupants to his way of seeing
things. When they objected TO his
intrusion and tried to throw the
chief out Kelly told them to go ahead
5 and start anything they pleased tie
= was ready for them with the end OF
r a nozzle and they were persuaded t6
d see the philosophy Of obeying
i 4 line OF hose VAS kept attached
Il to the hydrant at the station and tn,
b team was not blanketed. but KEEP
n ready for eali until after ih'
= storm ahated there was no sIeel
around the fire station,