photo by: Richard Gwin

Workers carry out soaked ceiling tiles from the Spencer Art Museum basement on Wednesday morning after a water line broke on Mississippi Street behind the Kansas Union. Water penetrated the museum's basement ceiling, where books and other items are stored.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A worker carries out a soaked ceiling tile from the Spencer Art Museum basement on Wednesday morning after a water line broke on Mississippi Street behind the Kansas Union. Water penetrated the museum's basement ceiling, where books and other items are stored.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A water removal specialist enters the Spencer Art Museum after a water line broke Wednesday morning, damaging an undermined amount of books and other items in the basement.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Workers at KU don rubber boots as they carry wet items Wednesday from the basement of the Spencer Museum of Art.

photo by: Richard Gwin

A water removal specialist truck sits in front of the Spencer Art Museum after a water line broke Wednesday morning, damaging an undermined amount of books and other items in the basement.

photo by: Chris Shrack

The tunnel between the Kansas Union and Spencer Museum shows the water from a six-inch water line that broke on Mississippi Street causing some flooding in the museum's basement.