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Show GOOD FIRE DRILL SAVES ; HUNDREDS OF PUPILS : ALTOONA, Pa.. Dec. IS. A fire that threatened the destruction of the Al- j tooua high school building, erected at j a cost of $750,000. started this morn-ing morn-ing while 600 pupils wero busv with I their studies. ' i As soon as it was discovered the boll ' for the firo drill was sounded and the I children, thinking it. was merelv another j drill, calmly formed in line and marched j (put. The building was practically cleared beforo tho arrival of the first I fire company. Within five minutes the building was filled with dense smoke. Had tho children remained that long many, it is believed, would havo been suffocated. The'llames were placed under control with a loss of $100,000. |