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Show ILLINOIS COLLEOt BUP.NED. Medl-.l llranrh of Unltertltr ef llllasw Klratk br Lllhtnlnf tail lleelrejetl. a During a heavy thunder atorm Tuea day night a bolt of lightning atruck the College of I'hy tlclana and Surgeons on Harrison atreet between Wood and Monroe atreeta, Chicago. FI re which followed the lightning In a abort time, iettroyrd the college bnlldlng, which waa one of the finest of Ita kind In the weat The lightning trlurk the college squarely on the top of a rising project-Ion project-Ion In the front part of the roof and tueh a Iremendunua crath of thunder accompanied the ftath that all the people peo-ple In the nclghliorhood thought in explosion had taken place In the college col-lege Almost liefnro the first fire en glne had arrived the flamea spread all through the flvo atorlet of the build log Adjoining the coMrge la the smalleit building of the Weat Hide hospital, which waa filled with pallenta about 100 being III the various wards Aa toon aa It waa aceii that the college could not l saved and Ita walls were liable lo fall at any lime the work of removing the patlrnta from the hospital hospi-tal waa aurcrtafully arrom llthrd J he College of I'hyalclaiia ami Hnr-grout Hnr-grout la the medical departmentof the University of Illinois situated at Champaign III The lna on bnlldlng anil equipment la practh'ally total and will appruxtmatrtjtoo onfl |
