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Show uu INVENTORY OF EDM FIRE Eleven Buildings Destroyed, Others Damaged, Loss Approximately Ap-proximately $7,000,000, Thousands Affected. REMOVING THE DEBRIS Inventor Actively Supervising Work Immediate Steps to Rebuild Are Taken. West Orange. N J. Dec. 10. When the fire which swept the ten-acre manufacturing man-ufacturing plant of the Thomas A Edison Manufacturing companies was extinguished today a hurried Invento r of the damage revealed that eleven of the eighteen buildings had been destroyed, others had been damaged and that the loss would approximate 7,000,000, Seven thousand men are employed at the plant and half of these, it is estimated, will be out of work temporarily. The entire force of employes was put to work today at removing the debris. Under the active supervision of Thomas A. Edison they began tearing tear-ing down the concrete walls, which had to be removed, while the embers were cooling. Immediate steps to rebuild have been taken , oo |