Show fIRE A AT S WilliAMS GOEGE COEE WILLIAMSTOWN Mass D Dec c. c 7 7 Fire Fire early today totally destroyed tho Thompson chemical laboratory of Williams college with a loss of approximately When the alarm was given Brainerd Mears assistant assistant as as- professor of chemistry and Cornelius Brown Drown an assistant were asleep ep in the building but escaped The The fire started in a workroom on the first floor from spontaneous combustion acc according to college au i A valuable library a It quantity of metals and chemicals which It is said paid cannot be bo replaced oh on account of the European war were de de- de I |