Word: fire
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fire-ladders...
...water on the fire-fiend dumps...
Although the fire...
...fire-fiend scorched old Stoughton well...
...Monday, Dec. 15, about quarter past eleven in the morning, an alarm of fire was sounded, and large volumes of smoke and flame were seen issuing from the south entry of the upper floor in Stoughton. Before the Fire Department arrived some students were busy in passing buckets, and in getting the ladders that were hidden under Weld and Harvard Hall. Jones, the bell-ringer, tried to put out the flames with a garden pump and a bucket of water, before the alarm was given. His efforts, however, were unsuccessful, and by the time the engines arrived, the fire...