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Show a. cor II. SHOPS BURNED DOWN Disastrous Tire At Agricultural College Col-lege Causes a Loss of $30,000. About lii::0 p. m., Monday night the people of this city were aroused from their slumbers, by tho tolling of the lire bell, caused by the burning of the machine shops of the A. C. of U., these buildings standing directly south of the main building. The building burned comprised the following fol-lowing apartments, one store house for Iron and wood, two carpenter shops, blacksmith shop, foundry, carriage car-riage shop, motor house, engineering laboratory, mechanic arts museum andotllces. The approximate cost of buildings and machinery Is $.10,000, insurance in-surance $7,100. The buildings had been repainted and cleaned for the opening of the coming term, no tires had been in any of these building except ex-cept that of a small wood tire made on a blacksmith forge In the morning for heating a glue pot, this lire was put out by 11 a. m. Trustees Mc-Allster Mc-Allster and Smart inspected tho building on the day pt the lire, Superintendent Super-intendent Batt of the building was the tlrst on the ground. He states that the lire was localized in the stock or store room, others say that lire was In four dlllcrcnt parts of the building but all on the south end. The lire department was on the ground in due time and did much toward saving the main building. As there were only twenty-live pounds pressure on the stream It hindered the tlreman grat-ly grat-ly In lighting the blaze. When tho lire started a breeze came fioni tho south cast which, If It had continued, would have caused the destruction de-struction of the main building. It soon changed, however, coming directly from the east. Tun Hki'Uh-lican Hki'Uh-lican has no theory as to the cause of the conllagratlon, but the following statements have been made. There was no electric current In the wires. The tire started in the stock or stoic room where combustible material was stowed and which is alwajs dark, there being no electric wires in this room. The citizens of Logan aie apparently ap-parently dazed at this calamity coming com-ing at tills paitlcular time and almost universally pronounce It to be incendiary. incendi-ary. It Is well for people not to bo to hasty In their conclusions, but wait until the hour of excitement' passes when cool deliberation can be biouglit to bear upon the situation. |
