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FIRE 2-2-2 (continue...) some of his stock including two boats. DAYLIGHT OF BUILDING Daylight reveals the damage to the building. The walls remain, but, about a fourth of the roof collapsed during the fire. LONG MEN INSIDE Firemen remained on the scene throughout the night spraying water on several hundred bolts of cloth which smoldered in the ruins of the dress shop. MED. CHIEF IN WHITE Chief Lewis says the fire started in the cutting room of the dress company from an unknown cause. Rm Damage may run as high as 2 100-hundred thousand dollars. This charred rack contained five thousand dresses