Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There was a small fire in the east basement of Grays Hall Shortly before 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The blaze, which started in the waste paper bin, was extinguished with the aid of the College fire apparatus before the Fire Department arrived...
...fire broke out in Weld 28 last night shortly after 8 o'clock. Neither of the occupants of the room was in at the time, but the blaze was discovered by people passing to a lecture and an alarm was sent in. The fire was small, however, and was extinguished before the arrival of the engine company. Except for the ruining of several articles of furniture by chemicals and the theft of some other property, the loss was small. The cause of the fire is supposed to have been a burning cigarette stub thrown carelessly among some sofa-pillows...
Fire broke out last night in Trinity Hall at a quarter past ten. The fire was confined at first to the partitions and floorings, which made it very difficult to extinguish. The blaze started in room 10, occupied by D. C. Barnes '02 and H. B. Stevens '03, both of whom were away at the time. The probable cause was the short circuiting of an electric light wire. The whole interior of the two upper floors was burned out and much of the contents of the rooms destroyed. In the lower rooms the little property which was removed was injured...
Although the fire department arrived when the fire was still confined to a small part of the house they were unable to locate the seat of the blaze in the partitions. Before the fire was under control, at about half past twelve, it had eaten through the outside walls and completely gutted the upper part of the building...
...explosion of chemicals in the photographic room on the top floor of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory caused a slight blaze yesterday. The Cambridge fire department was called out, but before the apparatus arrived, prompt action by the men in the laboratory with hand grenades extinguished the fire. The damage is estimated at about...