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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1915
Page
1
The region endures fierce winds up to 82 miles per hour with widespread damage. Wires fall, homes lose roofs, chimneys and steeples collapse as a roller coaster in Revere crashes onto houses. Dozens dead as coastwide shipping halts.
The Mayflower is wrecked off Cape Ann with two houses reportedly struck by the Revere roller coaster collapse nearby. Crew members are rescued by life savers and are safe.
A severe gale lashed New England and New York with wind speeds up to 82 mph, bringing death and massive property damage. Transportation and communications networks were nearly paralyzed along the eastern seaboard as sleet and snow followed the rain and a sharp 28 degree temperature drop. The British schooner Mayflower foundered off Cape Ann with coast guard crews rescuing her crew. another schooner likely the Freddie Eaton went ashore near the Portland breakwater.
New York suffragist Inez Milholland Boissevain resigns from the Ford peace mission aboard the Oscar II citing undemocratic leadership and delays. She accuses managers of excluding delegates and failing to forge clear policy before the voyage ends.
Charles Zueblin at Ford Hall proposes one year of constructive service for all youths after high school. He envisions a non standing but working army with girls and boys learning nursing, kindergarten training and housing skills during a year in the open under drill to strengthen national heritage. He argues 400,000 is inadequate for defence at 4,000 and 4,000,000.
Snow covered the ground over a foot deep in Hot Springs Virginia as President and his bride rode in the White House car for an hour and a half. The drive through winding roads offered a view of a winter scene and invigorating air despite the snow.
The President's stenographer returns with letters from the White House none of which concern major business. A meeting at a hotel is addressed by Mrs Seth Barton French with the Wilsons declining attendance. The Times weighs conscription in Britain, possible cabinet resignations, and a general election as options. A Derby scheme critique calls for clear army strength figures amid broader war reporting. Opposition papers, mostly Conservative, attack government delays in the Dardanelles.
London December 27 cabinet council will meet to decide if Derby scheme recruitment results justify continuing voluntary service or if some form of conscription is necessary.
Lowell tale reports W Arthur Burrington, a Massachusetts Cotton Mills shipper, killed when he stepped in front of an approaching electric car at the North Middlesex crossing in Westford while waiting with his wife. He was blinded by glare on his glasses.
Passengers found Burrington unconscious near the tracks and carried him into a car where he died before reaching North Chelmsford. Medical Examiner Meigs viewed the body. Death was due to a fractured skull. The couple had spent Christmas at their camp on Lake Knapps in Westford.
Still missing from 168 Brattle Street Cambridge two dogs lost since Wednesday evening December 15. A tall black and white setter about two years old with large white teeth and a black saddle, plus a small nearly black Scotch terrier about 20 pounds and two years old with a smooth coat. Both wore collars with owner name and address. A liberal reward for return to 168 Brattle Street Cambridge. Please telephone Cambridge 364 with any information.
A gale tore loose an old musical railway driven roller coaster just after 2 pm damaging a home at 129 Baker Avenue. Mrs. Maurice Smok er was badly hurt while Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marineau escaped from the wreck during their Sunday dinner as fire units arrived.
A roller coaster toppled toward nearby cottages during dinner, sending families fleeing. Mrs. A J Wyle and her 10 month old daughter Alice narrowly escaped as the car wreckage crashed through timber and steel, with screams and fear filling the scene.
A mob estimated from 100 to 500 white men besieged the Muskogee county jail in Oklahoma, aiming to renew efforts to lynch two Black men accused of killing a policeman. Authorities reported the crowd remained outside the jail through the night as tensions continued.
The mob attempted to break into the jail to take Green and Foremen, but State guardsmen repelled two assaults. A steel rail battering ram breached doors once, then guardsmen charged. The two prisoners, hidden in grass, slipped out in militia uniforms as night fell near Tulsa.
George Marville, 81, of a Brockton area home, perished during the storm from exhaustion.
Notes list city times Portland Gloucester Newport earlier. It records Moon phases Dec to Jan with full December 21 last quarter December 29 new January 4 first quarter January 11 full January 20 last quarter January 27. Also gives planetary rise and set times Venus Jupiter Mars Saturn and auto lamp times.
Commemorates the Feast of St. John the Evangelist and notes author Charles Lamb died in 1834. Recollects that one year earlier the United States protested Britain over restrictions on American trade.
Fair and warmer Monday for Boston and vicinity. Tuesday brings increasing cloudiness with moderate winds. Northern New England may see partly cloudy conditions Monday and local snow flurries Tuesday. Southern New England and eastern New York follow a similar pattern with a warm Monday and increasing clouds Tuesday.
A powerful gale along the coast yields 82 mph winds in Providence and causes twelve deaths—seven in New York, two in Philadelphia, three in New England. Two schooners wrecked off New England, a sixty-foot steeple toppled in Barre, and a Revere roller coaster destroyed. Ferry boats stranded, Boston harbor boats dragged ashore, eight inches of snow in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Transportation and communications crippled as Narragansett Bay sees the highest tide of the year followed by the lowest tide with northwest winds.
The weather bureau measured 48 mph max wind atop the post office in Boston but warned that higher speeds likely occurred citywide. Elsewhere winds reached 82 mph. Boston rainfall was .43 inches, Albany 1.84, New York .52, Philadelphia 1.08. Temperatures swung from 60 to 32 in hours with a low barometer around 28.77 at noon and 29.79 by 8 PM.
Average yesterday temperature listed as 43 with noted values for 10-24. The report compares to last year’s average of 512-24, though the OCR text is partially garbled.
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