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IN A FIRE-PROOF VAULT
There were lively times in the General Auditor's office
of the Missouri Pacific system on South Seventh street. On the second floor of the
building there is a very large fire-proof vault, and when the winds were raging the
fiercest, fifteen. of the clerks sought refuge in it. The building, however, began to
shake and quiver, and the strong vault began to totter in sympathy with the movement,
which brought forth a howl of anguish from the imprisoned men. It was then too late to run
for their lives, and all they could do was to stay with the safe. Luckily, the building
was spared and no one was hurt. This building is probably packed and jammed with clerical
occupants more than any other building of the same size in this city, and when the roof
was taken away by the storm, the panic grew into the proportions of a small sized riot of
frantic, safety-seeking people.
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