Newport Department Calls Outside Aid Twice within three weeks Washington Square, the civic center of Newport, R. I., was visited by serious fires, with an aggregate estimated loss of $350,000. On January 27, fire starting from an undetermined cause in the cellar of the Coggeshall Building, a brick-joisted structure of four stories, swept up a freight elevator shaft cutting off the escape of twenty-seven students of a Business College occupying the third floor. All were safely rescued with but minor injuries, nine jumping to a Browder life-net, the balance of the students being brought down ladders. The fire was brought under control in two hours but the two upper floors were burned out. A ruptured fuel oil tank created a stubborn cellar fire, which resisted extinguishment, until 500 pounds of Foamite were used. At 1 a. m. on February 18, Box 3 again summoned the department to the Square, where…
