Show r fiRE IN UNIVERSITY Students Had to Escape in Night Clothes Clothes I SEVERAL PEOPLE INJURED t Inmates Jump Four and Fivo t Stories to Safety Singular Experiences of Those Who Found Escape by the Stairs Cut OH by the Flames F i i Ottawa Out Dec 2 Tho Ottawa university uni-versity In this city = was totally destroyed tOdl1 All that remains of bv lire early today the masnUlconl stone building which was l of the eastern part of ono of the sights the city arc portions of the wall 1 The loss 1 is from S250000 to 300000 Insurance JCCOCOO It will be two years before the building can he rebuilt and meantime It r will he Iiiponslble to get a place suitable the Institution to carry on the work oC There were 150 students at the university which wo5 a Roman Catholic institution Many of the students were from the principally from the Xew United States pl England States I JUAiriSD INTO BIANKETS The tine started at 7 oclock while most of the students were at breakfast These who were still escaped easily A number t abet hind to take to the fire escapes In l their night clothes or jump Into blankets hold out bv the llromcn The lire escapes all side of the structure and Mcrc on one t those who slept on the other side could not reach them They had to jump some of them from the fourth and llfth stories TWO PRIESTS HURT Several students were injured but no one was seriously hurt Two priests how how ever wore seriously Injured and a Boyon Is not expected l to live Ho was on the first story lie could not reach the lire escape and was forced to jump He fell on a veranda landing on his shoulder shoul-der ant aTterward rolled to the ground l striking on his head JUMPKD I FIVE STORIES Father ITolhnm who was on the fourth floor leaped Into u blanket and sustained r Injuries to his side bit will recover d i Father IMcGurty was burned J on the head mid arms but not seriously injured An old woman a servant jumped from the fifth stor and was badly hurtS hurt-S Harvey J a student from Brunswick t Me awoke only when his bed was on fire He sprung to the window and climbing outside clung to the slll for fifteen mill utts when lie wall Lakcn down safely by I tile firemen = j COT HIS FACE A student named Cullen jum > cd from the fourth story with his glasses on and Ills face was cut Miss Dupus a domestic wis badly Injured The students lost all their effects It Is expected that all will rower except Father Uoyon The fire IF supposed to 1 have resulted from a burning cigarette A library of 20 COO volumes was destroyed |