Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-04 | Page 1 | Ancient Harvard Building Burned

ANCIENT HARVARD BUILDING BURNED CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. PrV 3. Tane hall, one of the oldest buildings of the quadrangle In the Harvard yard, was burned today. Thirty t housand rounds of ammunition in the basement was removed re-moved by men of t!e naval radio and ensigns school under the direction of their officers- Valuable' records belonging belong-ing to the university and the government schools also were saved. The fire started in the basement near the furnace, apparently had worked its way upward inside the walls and was bursting the roof when it was discovered by a naval officer. With handkerchiefs tied over their noses, the sailors groped their way to the shell boxes and brought j them all out. , Dane hall -was built In 1S32. the rift of the late Xathan Dane, an attorney of : Boston.