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Show , o . Flood at Higli School Prolinlilu Cnrelessness of Student Causes Coiistmintlon and Slight I.os.s. When Janitor Scurlo opened the high school building on Tuesday morning, ho thought that Noah's experience ex-perience was being repeated. Water was dropping through tho celling and running down the walls Into tho hallway, hall-way, the gym and tho domestic scionco room In the basement, and running out oiTto the floors, Oolng to tho next floor ho found tho samo conultlon, streams coming down tho wails and through the hall celling. tioing to tho next floor ho soon dls-cocrou dls-cocrou tho causo to be due to Bomo one having letl open the tap of tho lire hyurnut. i'no hyurnnt is Ideated In the hallway hall-way nuil tho constant uso of this part or iho building seems to hnvo caused It to settle, thus restricting tho flooded area chiefly to tho hallway proper. Tho same condition existed on tho middle floor, though somo went over tho door sill Into tho assembly as-sembly room. When tho water reached the lower floor there was no other escape, so It overflowed Into the gym nnd tliu scionco room, covering only n part ot these floors. now tho accident came to happen no one sccius to know. Apparently somu thoughtless student opened tho nro tap ana finding no water carelessly careless-ly loft it open. When tho lawn sprln-kioih sprln-kioih ana water wagons nro being operated down town tho water will not How out of tho taps on tho upper floor, and with only n low pressuro on tho lower ones. Tho only damage done Is where tho water ran down and discolored tho walls and caused somo plaster to drop off tho ceilings of tho hallways. This will probably amount to less than $100 nnd can bo repaired by rcplas-terlng rcplas-terlng tho, ceillngRfcmidjaBlngtafllUJlo calcimine. " "" T "? "" On this account tho students had a holiday Tuesday. One thing has been established by the accident, and that is that the (Ire protection Is too Inadequate for such n aluahlo building an tho high school, and It should bo remedied lr possible. Owing to tho many reports' being circulated aboat tfio damage the trustees trus-tees have Issued tho following statement, state-ment, signed by tho architect and builder of the school: "We, tho undersigned, as n committee commit-tee having been nsked to mako a report re-port of tho damage dono by tjio water at tho high school building Monday night, beg to report as follows: "The wntor ran from tho Arc hydrant hy-drant on tho upper floor and sprend over about one-third of that hallway floor and soaked the two ceilings below. be-low. It ran over nlwul one-sixth tho gjm floor and somo llttlo In ono or two class rooms, and discolored tho walls In a place or two. "In tho main hall tho lop coat or plaster lias fallen olT on a spot about a foot snunro. There will likely bo moio come off Inter. "In tho main hall, whom the water dripped on some pictures, the wall la slightly streaked. "On n whole, from all present appearance, ap-pearance, tho damage will bo slight. Respectfully. ,,,. HOURItT I.. ASHHY, JOHN HUNTI5K. |
