Show university OF UTAH SUFFERS FROM FIRE bonding in linins loea 1 8 fully covered by insurance the physical building at the sity of utah at salt lake burned to the ground friday morn ng caus ng s loss of 5 on tl e building and con tents the loss is fully covered by insurance and tl e structure will be re built as soon as possible A portion of the apparatus in the bu iding was saved and this has been moved into the workshop the cause of the fire the fire was d sc by boys re sid ng near the grounds and an alarm telephoned to the alre station owing to the long run fully two miles up hill all the way and a delay in getting tl e CT ater turned on abe fire gained such headway abat it could but checked an on of chemicals scattered the throughout the build ng before tl e fire department arrived ahe structure wh eh suffered from alre is near the corti west corner of tl e i grounds its damens ons are feet it contained on the first floor the shops an 1 draw ing room mineralogy room and cl em cal supply store roo n abe second floor were tl e phys cal laboratory french and german rooms and cal supply store roo n the thud floor conolt ed three cl em cal laboratory lab orator es qualitative quant tat ve and normal the chem eal 1 arary chemistry class rooms and store room for chem cal supplies the offices of professor acree and professor wilcox of the chemistry department chard lyon professor of m n ng engineer ng professor arnoldson in cl arge instruct t on and german and george silver in charge of it e bhoj were ilso in the build ng the fire started in the qualitative chemistry laboratory in the northeast corner of the third floor it may have started from a bunsen burner carelessly left burning under a shelf it may have been due to the sp aling ot phosphorus or some other aas ly agnit ed chemical the cause will probably always remain a mystery |