Show EDISON FIRE LOSS IS L I ESTIMATED AT 7 oo Valuable V Records of the In In- AJ 1 fr r ven or Are Removed to toS tofi fi S Safety feo During Blaze C WEST WEST ORANGE GE N. N J. J Dec 10 Then VLen tho the fire firc which swept the ten acre manufacturing plant of Thomas TIoma A. A Edison companies comanic here was finished today a hurried inventor inventory of f tho damage revealed that cloven eleven of the eighteen buildings in 5 had Lad been destroyed others had been damaged nod end that the thet g t J Joss would w approximate Seven thousand men inca arc employed at nt atthe othe the plant pant and half balf of these it fg is e ti- ti will mil be out of oi work temporarily J r Tim entire for force c of employees was put to work cork today nt at removing the debris debric Under the active supervision ision of Thomas A. A Edison they thc began tearing tear tear- ing n do down n tho the concrete walls which had bad to bo be removed while the tho embers were cooling Immediate steps to rebuild have havo been talen s f At least OUt ono man perished in in tho the thes s flames This became known today with I the finding of a charred body in in n the f mints of the film house where the tho explosion ex ox- occurred which started tho the blaze T Two o other men both workmen missing were reported The Tho names tIame w were wro r beaten back hack from froni the laboratory I and an workshop of Mr r. r Edison where bere were stored innumerable records and materials gathered from every corner of ot the world worM the result of more moro than thirty years of the tho i inventors inventor's tors tor's efforts At t the tho height of tho the firo fire a force of men removed removed the valuable rc records to Mr Edison's home in Llewellyn Park Pul not far awa away |