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Within minutes, the interior of the building was engulfed in flames and the building was destroyed. With it, the city's water mains went dry and the city was helpless. Contemporary Chicago Tribune reporting confirmed that the waterworks roof caught fire at an early hour, forcing firefighters to retreat before the building was lost. The fire burned unchecked from building to building, block to block. One eyewitness account, reprinted from a Western paper, described a family trapped on the fourth floor of a building at the corner of Randolph and

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