Steam drifts up out of the basement ten hours after the fire started on the second floor. Workers were removing materials for recycling when a cutting tool ignighted varnish dust that had worked its way into every nook and cranny in the building. The structure was early 1900's heavy timber and brick construction. High wind on the day of the fire added to the rapid spread of fire throughout the building. The metal frame on the left of the photo is what remains of the elevator shaft and its rails.