Word: losses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There appears to be considerable anxiety over the question of fire-escape apparatus for dormitories at Princeton and Yale. The last Princetonian had a satirical report of the burning of a college dormitory and attendant loss of life from insufficient means of escape for the inmates of the building. The Record also has lately been agitating this question; and now we learn from the Yale News that, "In each entry of Durfee one of the upmost story rooms is to be provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground...
...spring floods in the Southwest are doing great damage. Large portions of Arkansas and Mississippi are under water. Many people have been drowned, and the loss in live stock is enormous. The levees are breaking all along the Mississippi, and fearful results are apprehended...
Much complaint has been made recently concerning the loss of various articles in the gymnasium. It seems that the moment anything is found it is thrown among the unclaimed articles down stairs, where any one can help himself to what he pleases. In this way an article lost by one man in the morning may be appropriated by another in the afternoon. This unnecessary disappearance of property might be remedied, we think, if a list of the articles lost were posted on the gymnasium bulletin and the articles themselves were not consigned to the "olla podrida" of shoes, slippers, jerseys...
There has been a big break in the levee at Concordia, Ark., and a damaging overflow, with some loss of life...
Malley's dry goods house in New Haven was burned yesterday. Loss $180,000. Insured...