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Old Main Fire Destroys SIU Campus Building
A Sunday blaze engulfed Old Main at Southern Minors University, with red fire trucks, white hoses, and black clad firefighters from eight towns battling flames. Students aided crews while chaos and smoke filled the air, and professors mourned losses to books and records as authorities secured the scene.
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Southern Minors University
Old Main
Sigma
Mt. Vernon
Rita McCabe
Brookfield
Miss McCabe
Stuart Unger
Chicago
Unger
Thadd Hall
Hall
History Department
Hellmut Hartwig
Foreign Language Department
Dr. Hartwig
Miss Woody
Carbondale
David Keene
Francis A. Engiehart
Frankfort
Vernon
Keene
Englehart
SIU
Jackson County
Raymond Dillinger
Sever