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Show FIRE IN THE VATICAN. A recent dispatch from Rome says: The vast collection of sacred documents and archives in one of the libraries of the Vatican narrowly escaped destruction destruc-tion by fire last Sunday night. The fire was discovered In an adjoining apartment, apart-ment, and threatened to spread to the book rooms. The Pontifical guards hastily has-tily carried away an immense number of the most valuable documents 6tored in the endangered positions, and a fire alarm for St. Peter's church sounded. This promptly summoned the Vatican fire corps, who fought the flames for an hour and finally extinguished them with no serious loss. The fire, it was learned, originated in a chimney in the night watchman's room. |