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Show CENSUS RECORDS SO UP Ji BLAZE Documents Dating Back to First Enumeration of 1790 Partly Destroyed WASHtNOTON1, Jan 11. Valuable records dating back to 1T9', when the f!nnt census of the rutted States was taken, were destroyed Monday in U fire of undetermined origin at th. department of commerce. The rec-! ords Included figures from evory een- mis up to the present one and offi- . 1 il svild that it would be days before be-fore even an istlrnate ol the dam:iK could bo given. The fire originated in the basement. Every piece of Apparatus down town Was called and water ,piMn more than L'u lines of hose completed the damage dam-age done to ihe record'- Three firemen were overcome by smoke and taken to ihe hosplt tl. I Among them as r'nu.k. Newntan, i -clplent of the 1920 bravery rhedul. Jamey Foster, a watchman who discovered dis-covered Ihe fire, -aid on Inyestlgatl' n ' he found the enrpfiit. . bhop a ad . n-grne n-grne room full of smoke. According to T. J. i'i' ei ,;,!. iib-r clerk of the census bureau, record of the CensuM of 1 slacked OUtSlde lh WlUlts and IhSSi wore totally destroyed- 'n tne vaults, i were stacked records dating buck : 1790 and arranged according 10 years .up to lM'J. The 1920 records were ' kept oh an Upper floor and were urt- damaged . Asked s to what the damage dam-age would be. Mr. EntngeraiG said shirt j the actual fire lof x is. Kl:,!t In; I "ihe , records destroyed could not be repluO-H ci if xw. bad tho entlvo wealth of tl:C j United Stales. There are no duplicate?. dupli-cate?. " j I The records, he sold, wero used by the war department for draft daUi, by the internal revenue bureau, by tlie treasury iiepiti'. nient and often w consulted In clthechshlp right mattoW. I oo |