FIRE IN WASHINGTON
BLAZE UNDER CAPITOL DAMAGE TO DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON, 3rd January. Following close on the White House fire on Christmas Eve, enormous crowds of excited citizens gathered when flames swept the supplementary House of Representatives document room under the dome of the main Capitol building. The fire offered a brilliant spectacle as flames and smoke poured through the roof and the fourth story windows. A general alarm brought firemen, who controlled the blaze half an hour after they appeared. The historic structure was threatened with tho worst fire since both wings were burnt during the war in 1812. The damage is not believed to be great, and is due principally to water from tho fire apparatus. Suggestions have been made from several sources that the proximity.- of the two fires in Washington indicate the activity of a pyromaniae, but the rumour as yet has not been substantiated. " By the fire on Christmas Eve the President's executive offices were seriously damaged, and it was believed that important records had been destroyed. That outbreak was supposed to be duo to short-circuiting of the electric wiring. -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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184FIRE IN WASHINGTON Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 9
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