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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1910
Page
2
Train derails near Forty-fourth Street and Madison Avenue releases gas that explodes in the power house, destroying a railroad yard, damaging glassware at Tiffany Studios, injuring and killing multiple people, and forcing evacuations as fire crews and clergy aid survivors.
East Washington Citizens Association backs a 2 cent per front foot tax on all real estate to fund snow and street cleanup. The plan, tied to a general fund for urgent needs, was referred to the executive committee, while the Dillingham bill demanding owner-funded street cleaning faced condemnation. Supt. Wood reports 31 wagons and 100 cleaners at work clearing slush, with snow hauled to the District dump and room remaining for more.
James B Knott and three relatives remain jailed as they seek bail today in a case accusing them of trying to blackmail street merchant Charles Rosenthal. Attorney Campbell Carrington conferred with Knott relatives from South Carolina while Knott pleads for release to aid his ill wife.
John Herbert Boylan, an escapee with Big Bill Green and others from Sing Sing on October 7, was captured in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Chief Reese identified him by photo, he awaits requisition papers, and he asks to return to Sing Sing hoping for quiet after the escape. He knows nothing of the others who broke jail with him.
Weather conditions from the Weather Bureau Washington show a northern disturbance reaching eastern Ontario with low pressure east of the Mississippi and widespread snow and rain center to the mid Atlantic regions. In the West high pressure with generally clear skies and isolated showers or snow in the S Nevada and N Arizona. Forecast calls for light snow Tuesday in the lake region and Virginia-Maryland-Pennsylvania mountains, with generally fair weather Wednesday. Winds along coasts vary from westerly to northwest, Lake Michigan brisk northwesterly, steamers to Europe have westerly winds. Temperature readings span midnight to 6 p.m. with a day maximum near 41 and minimum near 34, humidity around 45-66 percent. River bulletin notes clear Potomac and Shenandoah rivers at Hapers Ferry, W. Va. on December 19.
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