Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While attempts to ring in an alarm were being made, students ran into Claverly Hall and pulled the hose from that building out to the fire. The water was quickly turned on and five minutes later the firemen arrived. They soon extinguished the fire with chemicals. The speed with which the hose from Claverly Hall was put into action undoubtedly prevented a larger conflagration...
...immediately turned in an alarm. The fire was located in the basement of the south entry, and owing to the large amount of smoke which it produced, it was imposible to determine at first the extent of the configuration. The students in the south entry were awakened by firemen and advised to leave the building. The fire was confined to a heap of rubbish...
...places the slate roof had fallen in. The rooms on the first and second floors were only slightly injured by the fire, which skipped from the room in which it started to the third floor. The contents of these rooms, however, were almost totally destroyed by water. The firemen were greatly hampered by the cold, which froze the water as it fell, and by a high wind which lent a draft to the flames...