On last Tuesday night between 10 and 11 o’clock the alarm of fire was sounded in our city and it was discovered that fire had broken out in the rear of J.M. Cline’s drug store on the west side of the square.

The building, being a wooden one, the fire spread rapidly and it could be seen at a glance that it would be useless to attempt to save the building but our people went to work with their usual vigor under such circumstances to save the goods and adjoining buildings and right good work was done.

There were three two story buildings destroyed. They were owned by Vick & Son, S.W. Dunaway, Hardin Goodall and J.B. Bainbridge all being insured except Hardin Goodall’s. The loss is estimated at $20,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.

(Extracted from local newspapers and compiled by Harry Boyd posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )