"111-SC-22638: Sumber Warehouse #3 at St. Denis destroyed in an air raid on the night of September 15-16th, 1918, during World War I. The warehouse, which was intended to be the office of the apartment quartermaster, was one of the largest buildings in or around Paris with extensive storage space. It was four stories high, made of structural steel from the 1900 Paris World Fair, and contained around three quarters of a million square feet of storage space. The bomb, an incendiary, struck the building near the clock tower, resulting in a massive fire that consumed the entire building within two
"111-SC-22638: Sumber Warehouse #3 at St. Denis destroyed in an air raid on the night of September 15-16th, 1918, during World War I. The warehouse, which was intended to be the office of the apartment quartermaster, was one of the largest buildings in or around Paris with extensive storage space. It was four stories high, made of structural steel from the 1900 Paris World Fair, and contained around three quarters of a million square feet of storage space. The bomb, an incendiary, struck the building near the clock tower, resulting in a massive fire that consumed the entire building within two hours."
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