The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-01-26
NUMBER 10
7 It'IIi IIIU UItIVH JUIITNST.
Eurnin. OF Tic Illinois, COIIexn

Burning the Illinois College,.
II is our duty, thts week, Ia record one of the
scvere caIam,ii,s, shor' o t'ie destruction o
iilt, whici, has ever fallen Upon this community
nothing than the uruinr II Illinois Col
lege which trr more than twenty years, in
y-ry STAGE OF she pro .ress of tor village, has
been on" OF is chief Ornaments, and the pride
OF It's ctiZsuS.
Abou, e;irh; o'clock on last ThursdAy even
snr the building was found % be on lire. On
is fir t discovery, til Fir wll ch had origins ed
in the thid or fourth story in the solth west
part "f the building, Ind gln,d such hcadwny
as render lis exnnuish,nrn,, Will, the met ns
Al hard impossible. Ih" difficulty increas
ed by the absence of Il Iar.e pr portion of the
stud, nfs from The institution. A season of va.
cation hid Just closed, and the ordinary exer
ciscs had been resumed on that evening. In
the southern baf of the building, large pro-
portion IF The property Of the stud MS, was des-
trayed, some losing all. TIE hh.ary Of the
Sigma ri Suci~ty, "i.:at wasin this part OF the
building, wa- entTeiy destroyed. 1t conta ned
a snafl buI valuable selection IF books, which
had been collected with great labor and at con-
siderable expense by the numbers Of the soc:e-
ty and It's 'rends lis loss will be severely felt
and much regretted.
ThA property Of the stu ien's in the northern
with one or t. o exceptions The & l ege Lii
brary, which was in this part, was also saved,
but in greatly damaged condition. The ex-
tert OF the Injury to the Library va have not
l. AIMED. The whole of the main building and
the northern wieg have bern completely des
troyrd BY extraordinary effarts The southern
wing was saved from the fire, but must be
greatly irju-ed by the attempts tn 1t were made
TO remove everything that cou'd be taken out.
Tha tani es inhabiting the two wings must
have los, considerable by the removal Of furni-
ture, but have heard no estimate.
The loss in the destruction of the building
may be estimated at $4,000, only $4,000 Of
which is known to be covered by insurance, in
the Hartford Protection Office" 1t Is matter
of sincere regret to the friends Of the College
that policy of insurance for 81 900 bad expir
ed in the month of N ,vembcf last. The fail
ure to renew this policy at maturity was owing
to the fact the treasurer fail to receive from
the company insurng, Che E'na at Hartford,)
the usual notice Of the expiration OF the policy
and the treas urer himself, having recently en-
.ered on the duties CT his office, had not become
acquainted with the condition OF the insurance.
The building has been uniformly insured, and
the pol c:es regularly renewed for many years.
The regular exercises ofthe institution, ,safter
a temporary suspension for the rest of the week,
will be resumed and proceed as usual. The
students who have thus been thrown out Of
homes, will be furnished with temporary ones
anoHg the citizens OF the place, and we learn
that some early effort will be made to repair, III
part at least, then leases, which bear heavily
upon many 'ot tse'
On visiting iae scene of the fire yesterday
we found that nearly the whole of the
east and the west wall, four stories in hight,
had fallen down. Preparations were being
made to draw down the ends so as to prevent
my accidents. Through the whole of the fire,
hough seyeral persons, with commendable zeal
and forgctIulncss of self, had placed themselves
N serious jeopardy, We have ye; heard of no
accidents resulting in the injury Of any one.