The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-21
STORM BROODS
ON GULF COAST
Fifteen-MiIe Wind Sweeps
Louisiana - Barometer
Drops Rapidly.
BOATS CONVEY WARNING
To Townspeople - Wireless
and Telephone Used to-
Reach Exposed Points.


New Orleans, Sept 2i.-rhe
pieal disturbance at 4 p. M, wa y
miles of the mouth OF the u.
isalppl river and MOVING at Il s Re
Of II miles an hour toward a Z. ON
Of the gulf coast, apparel K be.
tween Galveston and Corpus l~1fristi
Texas, according TO an announces
nlent from the local weather bureau.
New Orleans, Sept. 2i.--The baro-
meter reading at Burwood, La, near
the mouth OF the Mississippi river at
2:25 o'clock this afternoon was
20 10, fall Of six points since 8
am. A ter.mIie northeast wind
was recorded.
Al 2 pm, the barometer here
registered %. 81, drop OF three
j points In an hour and seven points
since 8 am. There was a fifteen.
mile wind.
The storm was approaching ap-
parently the west Louisiana or
Texas coast. "Chanpe to hurricane
warnings 10 am. on west Louisiana
coast and on Texas coast, Port Ar
thur to Corpus Christi" said the
warming "TropIcal storm advanc-
ing northwestward, attended by
strong winds. Emergency Warn
all Interests"
This message was retranscribed b.
the local bureau force and sent b.
wireless, telephone and telegraph an,
by boat to every point along the Loui
siana coast and Texas coast Boati
went out from Morgan city. Lek'
Charles and other points to warn thu
people on the outskirts OF Louisiana
near the Gulf of Mexico. Telephones
and wireless were used to reach Crane
Isle and other exposed points. storm
warnings were also ordered displayed
at Brownsville Tex, and on the east
ern Louisiana coast.
Drop at Houston.
Houston, Tex, Sept. 2i,-The baro
meter here, which,. at o'clock TIM
afternoon, showed u reading of 20 %
had dropped Ave points to 2s,S7 at la
o'clock.
Beaumont, Tex, Sept. Ala fore
runner of the gulf coast hurrican,
reacifed here this afternoon when higl
winds whipped light rain into. !
flashing rainstorm All ships were be
ing held In the port until after the hur
ricane has passed.
Extraordinary precautions have peel
taken by citizens and municipal author
tiles to prevent a repetition OF the l9i'
hurricane disaster when property dam
age amounting to S7,00O,00O, occurred
in Beaumont. Port Arthur ana orange
Storm Warning,
Pensacola, FLA. Sept. l.-Southcas
storm warnings were ordered displaye'
here thls morning with the announce
mcnt that the wind may increase Z
gale proportions during the night. Nee
essary precautions were taken at tn
naval station and ~ shipping istsrests
Gusta Of Wind.
Brownsville Tex, Sept: 21.--The ba
romenter here at noon today read 29.S'
The weather was fair with frequen
gnsts of wind out to the northwest
Point Isabel, % miles east Of here. re
ports tides running higher than usuf
for the past three days All nshin
vessels have been called in
Tide Rising.
|. Corpus Christi, Tex, Sept 2l.--Th'
tide at Harbor Island, the local ebser
walton point was reported TWO rec
higher than mean low ut ! pm. toda!
and rising slowly. Winds were. varf
able, although generally tnkinE
northerly direction Mt the rate OF aboi
ak miles an hour. The sbaroinete
reading was 1884. s@'s