Show CORPSES AT A FIRE Law and Medical Department In aBlaze a-Blaze and Firemen Work Amid the Dead Chicago Nov 20fhc law and medical l departments of Northwestern university narrowly escaped destruction today Tho lames started from a defective electric wire on tho fourth floor of the building which was formerly tho Tremont house and after burning out a lectureroom crept up an elevator shaft to the seventh floor when a clinicroom was destroyed The loss Is 20000 < Amid tables on which lay a score of human bodies many of which had been disfigured by the students knife the Icemen Ice-men fought the blaze which proved to boa bo-a stubborn one The south wing of the three top floors of the building was destroyed de-stroyed Interior docoratloiiB and furnish lags which cost upward of 160000 were marred and watersoaked |