On last Sunday morning about 3 o’clock the building used as a store room for the Bloomington Chair Factory took fire and in less than an hour was burned to the ground. It was impossible to save the burning building, and all the efforts of the fire department were turned to saving the contiguous buildings with good effect. There was no ground breeze during the fire, but a distance of two or three hundred feet up there appeared to be a strong current blowing from the northeast, which carried the burning cinders a long distance. The building was 75 ft long, 30 ft wide and two stories high containing a large number of chairs. The total loss is about $10,000 insured in different companies.

(Extracted from a Marion paper and collected by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )