Word: stain
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...entirely the cost of the building, and the New York Harvard club at once subscribed $2,500 more. By the last of December the building was well toward completion. On the morning of December 27 a fire started in a small work-house where workmen were heating creosote shingle-stain. An explosion followed, which set fire to the boat house and in a very short time the building had burned to the ground. The launch, Frank Thompson, which was lying near, was also destroyed...
...University boat house on Soldiers Field was completely destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning, December 27. The fire started in a small house close by where a workman, in warming some creosote shingle stain, caused it to explode and in a few minutes the boat house had caught fire. The explosion occurred at 8.45 a. m. and by 9.30 the building was entirely consumed. Three-fourths of the building had been completed, but the loss, estimated at $18,000, will be entirely covered by the insurance. The foundations and the piles were only slightly injured and, as soon...