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Show FIERCE EIRE STARTS IN CHRONICLE IffiR Newspaper Building in San Francisco Is Badly Damaged Dam-aged by Flames. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 8.-Shortly before be-fore midnight a fire started In the .hPj I c lock tower on the Chronicle building, as a result of the firing of bombe to announce an-nounce the election results, nnd the llames spread with such rapidity that the entire fire apparatus of the city was summoned sum-moned to the scene. Owing to the great height of tho llames It was impossible to reach them even with the combined forces of the water towers, and the furnlllar supi-i .-c'n, t : re of the liiiilcliiitr nnhs speedlls reduced to debris which toppled in blazing sections to the street In 'o Finds Way to Roof The fire found Its way down to the roof and a ponaldi rable portion of that part of ihe building was burned before the weak water auppi buci i i d d In q u nchlng It 1,1 ."" , 1 was located the photographic photo-graphic department and below II on the top floor was .(,.. 'composing room In which arc located many linotype mi- hln. s I .. what extent tin se w. r. d im- I aged Is not known bine Library Destroyed vJ,,oiv,.b,'"'cVe" lat "brary. the moat valuable of Its kind in the Weal t, 'a been practically destroyed: The edlto al rooms and many business offices on he ' r'r" deluged with water lure UPl?er Pnrt of tho slru-- Uses Hxammei Presses. The tire ,:,,ne n the mldat of the final preparations for the ,,r the efectton edition nc) ,, ,.,. s. , ,,. , the Examiner's plant was Immedlateh ",T'"I to th. I'hroni.le Th. off,, -'he thronklc t.mnrn morning will I... printed on the p.vsves of Its contemporary Its 'own pressroom being flood, d by the volume of w2? that poured down th.- elevator shafts Art Staff Cut Off. it is impossible to estimate the financial .0rrrn;,,KhK S'Vrn" 'n's of the art staff who attempted to save some r their propei u . r- ,ilm..si c ut off rr,.m PlatePeofanaifS? "" ,n tta ' -11 Is said that ths blase was Brst no-ooul no-ooul 8 o'i lock m the cvenlne and was extinguished b employ, e. If . bul Ing Later it broke out afresh , 1 k th s (Wedneadaj I morning the lire was extinguished K |