Original sentence: Almost all the town's old houses collapsed or were made uninhabitable, and the local hospital also almost completely collapsed, though with no loss of life or injuries.Situated on land purchased from the Treasury in 1924, the plant was opened in 1926 using a sodium nitrate extraction system patented by the Guggenheim Brothers which had replaced the Shanks system
Edited sentence: Almost all the town's old houses collapsed or were made uninhabitable, and the local hospital almost completely collapsed, though miraculously with no loss of life or injuries.Situated on land purchased from the Treasury in 1924, the American Smelting and Refining Company opened a plant on 1926 using a sodium nitrate extraction system patented by brothers Solomon and Simon Guggenheim.Their patented system replaced the Shanks system