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building, built for hotel purposes, and having a great number of 
rooms and windows. It was used at that time as a young ladies’ 
seminary, but the explosion occurred during vacation, and the 
president of the institution and his family were the only persons 
occupying it. Accordingly most of the rooms were vacant and 
the doors and windows closed. The dimensions of the building 
are about 200 feet in an east- west direction by 50 feet north and 
south, and it is several stories high. On the first floor are large 
dining-rooms, reception-rooms, etc, with a hallway in the middle 
rooms on each side of the hall, and transoms over the doors, 
with elevator and stairways in the middle of the building, as 
shown in the accompanying ground jdan and proHle, whicli, 
however, are given as correct only as to their general features. 
For convenience, the windows shown in the skeUih arc numbered 
vertically from the bottom and lettered con.secutively from tlu; 
loft. 
'file conservatory, on the north side of the building, was badly 
broken, both glass and framewctrk, the latter being movi'd out- 
