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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...
...Sunday evening, July 12, a fire started in the chemical room of Boylston Hall. The blaze was extinguished before much damage was done. The damage which was caused largely by water, amounted to between two and three thousand dollars...
Brown University had a narrow escape from losing its ancient Hope College and Manning Hall by fire on Tuesday afternoon. A janitor discovered a lively blaze in the basement of Hope College in a large waste-paper bin. A general alarm was sent out; but before aid arrived the fire had reached the roof. Eight rooms were burned out, the roof was burned, and all the other rooms in the building were soaked. The loss is about $5000 to the corporation and $1500 to the students. The losses are covered by insurance. Hope College is the oldest of the Brown...