The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-12-11
COLLEGE MANSION
rs DESTROYED AND FOUR
STUDENTS AND THREE
FIREMEN ARE BURNED.
Roast Under the Debris-Chapter
House Was Beautiful Mansion
Overlooking Cayuga Lake.
b Other News.

Overlooking Cayuga Lake.
b Other News.
/ Ithaca, N. Y, Dec. 7.-Early
this morning the beautiful Chi Psi
Fraternity building at Cornell Uni
veI sity caught fire and was soon all
tafame Before the fire depart.
ment could arrive o. L. Schmuck,
of Hanover, Pa, had jumped from
"a third story window and was SO
severely injured that he died soon
after being taken to the inirmary.
Three of Ithaca's volunteer fire.
3men were killed while fighting the
flames, Three students lie at the
|infrmary at tie point of death. 1t
is not known how many are in the
ruins.
The chapter house was mansion
built by Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske
lon the campus overlooking Cayuga
Lake, but never occupied by her
because of her premature death. 1t
was beautiful structure of sand
stone, handsomely decorated and
finished within with marble and
mahogany The walls which were
| of rubble masonry, collapsed under
the flames and high wind, leaving
only heap ofruins. ~ afi E2tss :.
| Tney were manipulating hose
on the north side Of the building
when the wall collapsed on them
land pinned them to the ground, to
slowly roast under the burning de-
bris.
/ When the fremen department
arrived the screams of two men ap.
pearing in the windows of the
southwest tower, over the maiu en-
trance were heard. For some rea.
SOD the men hesitated to jump, and
before they could be reached the
I tower collapsed and the men were
buried beneath the ruins. q
The chapter house burned rapid.
ly, and the walls cracked apart in
all directions. The fire was so hot
THAT the iremen driven from the
southeast side of the building.
Fate bad evidently selected 9
tragic death for youngS. W.. Grelle
brother OF G. E. Grelle, of Port
land, who was killed in the fire thai
destroyed the chapter house of the
Chi Psi fraternity. a
4 Gre!le was in runaway acci
jdent with his father four years agt
in which his father was instantly
killed and the young man himsel
Z narrowly escaped death. Grene
in company with his mother ane
) sister, visited his brother in Port
land in the summer of 1904, ant
made many friends among tn
yuanger set. Chester G.. Murphy
who is an old Cornell man and;
close friend of c. E. Grelle,: told Q
I lIyoung Grelle this morning III
| said: 9l
,'Grelle wac freshman at Coz
nell and was ono of the most popu
lar men of his class. He wa
spiked" by nearly every fraternit
at the university, and for a Ion
time was undecided as to whic
| one be would join. Ha finally &c
| lected the Chi Psi and was an &C
/ tive member at the time of hi
/ death. Fs-G
II The young man was in Portlan
| two years ago 10 company with hi
| mother and sister and last year al
: | cump pa aoied them to Europe. A
that time c. E. Grelle of this Cit
went oNew York to see them Q
their foreign trip. Mr.. Grelle le
this morning for New York, whel
he will take charge of his brother
remains.
| "The young mans father WI
killed 10 runaway accidant !
| 1South Orange, New Jersey, ar
| Grelle, himself, narrowly escap.
| death, The horses ran away al
| dashed into tree at the end Of Il
| road. The father was killed 4
| sanity and the young man W
| thrown high into tree where
/ hung suspended on a limb by b
/ ohiD. He fell to the ground uni
II Gured.
II "Young Grelle was a popul
II young man. He was we'll matul,
L. 4 4 = -
pers nality. He was II years o
at the time of his visit to Portlal
Il and 1o years at the time Of +
II death. He made many trierda
N Portland on the occasion cf his VII
II and bis death has been sad BIZ
| to them.o .s3'3sEs 1885
HI Washington, Dec. TT he w,
is unalterably opposed to joiLt {