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Nearly all the business houses were reduced to ashes; or, if any portion of their roughly serrated and toppling walls remained, they were a silent and menancing memento of the fierce power of the fire-fiend.
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Jacobs describes the destruction of business houses during the fire, emphasizing the devastation it caused.
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