1.   With its blackened bricks and crenelated walls, the Pabst brewery looms from a hill above downtown like a Dickensian jail.

2.   At dawn, a skeleton of blackened bricks was all that remained of the dormitory.

3.   Much of the center of the city was reduced to blackened heaps of smoldering ash, blackened bricks and twisted pieces of tin roofs.

4.   Much of its center was reduced to smoldering ash, blackened bricks and twisted pieces of tin roofs.

5.   Weeping parents gathered outside the dormitory, now a skeleton of blackened bricks.