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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1900
Page
1
Dallas reports from Galveston recounts chaos after the storm with martial law and looting. Officials describe mass casualties, fires and corpses, while relief funds surge nationwide, as Boston and New York raise thousands for Galveston’s survivors and cities mobilize aid.
West India hurricane sweeps New England, with dry forests fueling 10 fires in Plymouth county and Cape Cod. The article notes a million dollars in losses, multiple summer homes, a cranberry bog, barns and stables destroyed, and property of notable locals burned as the storm advances across the region.
A. Isaacson & Co. advertises clearance of winter apparel including coats overcoats furs woolens and accessories at 154-168 Washington Street and The Old Blue Store opposite Cornhill near Adams and Dock squares. The notice urges disposal of stock before October 1.
Indianapolis Sept 12 5 30 pm the United Mine Workers of America declared a strike in the anthracite region affecting 145 000 men of whom a large share are said to belong to the union Reading Coal and Iron Co the only big company not affected miners prepare a strike fund with a daily potential cost of 800 000 dollars
Philadelphia Sept 12 The strike begun today by United Mine Workers halts work in the anthracite coal region the world's most productive field. About 145000 mine workers are employed with leaders claiming around eighty percent organized. Unorganized miners are expected to join the strike. The coal basins span about 470 square miles across Luzerne Lackawanna Schuylkill Carbon and Northumberland counties. If veins shared a single location they would cover about twenty miles by twenty four.
Forecast issued from Fair Washington on September 12. Maine sees cooler conditions in the southwest Thursday, then fair Friday with fresh west to north winds diminishing along the northeast coast. New Hampshire and Vermont expect fair Thursday, cooler in the south, and fair Friday with fresh west to north winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut to have fair conditions with cooler Thursday and Friday, winds from the west to north at a fresh pace.
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