Fire at 3:30 am Tuesday damaged the two story frame building at 215 W. Main St. owned by Harry W. Bracy. Damage to the building was estimated at between $4000 and $5000.

Arthur Melvin estimated $2000 damage to books and furnishings in his law office which is located in the building. Firemen extinguished the blaze after they were called by a Kroger truck driver who discovered the fire as he was passing the building on his early morning run.

The fire originated around a flue which is connected to the east. Smoke filled the sales room of the Marion Auto Supply Co. in the brick building but the fire did not reach the adjacent structure.

Fire Chief Orlie Ing said smoke was billowing from the frame structure when the fire truck arrived. Firemen entered the building and confined the blaze to the rear part of the structure. Ing said that only the early discovery of the blaze enabled firemen to prevent the building’s complete destruction.

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