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Show UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SUFFERS FROM FIRE. Physical Bnlldlng in Kain-Loss Is 25,O0O JFuUy Covered by Insurance. The Physical building at the University Univer-sity of Utah, at Salt Lake, burned to the ground Friday morning, causing a loss of 525,000 od the building and contents. con-tents. The loss is fully covered by insurance, in-surance, and the structure will be rebuilt re-built as soon as possible. A portioD of the apparatus in the building was saved, and this has been moved into the workshop. The cause of the fire is unknown. The fire was discovered by boys residing re-siding near the grounds, and an alarm telephoned to the fire station. Owing to the long run, fully two miles, uphill up-hill all the way, and a delay in getting the water turned on, the fire gained such headway that it could not be checked. An explosion of chemicals scattered , the flames throughout the building before the fire department arrived. The structure which suffered from fire is near the northwest corner of the university grounds. Its dimensions are 62x120 feet. It contained on the first floor the shops, mechanical drawing draw-ing room, mineralogy room and chemical chemi-cal supply store room. On the second floor were the physical laboratory, French and German rooms, and physical physi-cal supply store room. The third floor contained three chemical laboratories qualitative, quantitative and normal the chemical library, chemistry class rooms, and store room for chemical supplies. The offices of Professor Acree and Professor Wilcox of the chemistry department, Hichard Lyon, professor of mining engineering. Professor Pro-fessor Arnoldson, in charge of instruction instruc-tion in French and German, and George Silver, in charge of the shop, were also in the building. 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 care-lessly left burning under a shelf. It may have been due to the spilling of phosphorus or some other easily ignited ignit-ed chemical. The cause will probably always remain a mystery. |