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Show FIRE RAVAGES CHURCH SCHOOL Early Morning Fire Costly For Presbyterians; Pres-byterians; Firemen Are Hurt Salt Lake City. Damage estimated at more than $50,000 was csused early Friday morning when fire swept through Converse hall, administration building of Westminster college, on Thirteenth East street. Two firemen were slightly injured in a fall 0f eight-teen eight-teen feet when a ladder, overloaded with men and hose, broke. Foreman Boshard suffered a fractured rib and L-onde sprained his left an Ho Efficient work of the fire department depart-ment and cool-headed efforts of the Westminster students from adjoining dormitories saved educational and business records of the college and part of the class room equipment, but the college's entire library of 14 000 volumes, including the 2500-volume Private library of Dr. William M Pa, den, synodical missionary and former Pastor of the First Prtt.,.. church, was completely destroyed. The Paden library was regarded as one of the finest private collections in the west. The fire, which spectacularly ilium-mated ilium-mated the early morning sky, is be-ieved be-ieved to have been caused by spontaneous spon-taneous combustion. The blaze swept upward along the main staircase leading from the main floor to the upper floor and superstru tture or Gothic Go-thic tower, which adorned the Con- tno , S" J'lreme" were able to control the flames to the two upper stories and the basement floor, containing con-taining the chemistry, physics and bio-liBical bio-liBical laboratories, was undamaged other than from water. The fire wa under control within an hour after the tire equipment reached the blaze. |