About 80 firefighters fought for hours against the flames on Tuesday, the head of the local fire department on Twitter. No people are reported to have been injured, but an entire floor of the 100-year old building should have collapsed in the fire.
” They knew it was a museum. It was like ”don’t go out empty-handed. Grab something and get it out of here”, says a brandbefäl to the newspaper the St Louis Dispatch.
alia, set out a bible, printed by Gutenberg, a first draft of the appendices to the constitution of the united states, and a handwritten letter from Christopher Columbus.
It is unclear, however, what has been lost when the collections rotate among several american museums.
