Early discovery of a fire in the basement of the Sam Sanders Shoe store on the northwest corner of the Public Square Wednesday enabled firemen to stop a fire which might have done heavy damage to Marion business section Wednesday night. The blaze believed to have been caused by the piling of hot ashes against a coal bin in the basement of the store burned upwards through the floor of the shoe store in two places before it was extinguished. Damage was estimated at between $400 and $500 including some of the shoe stock of the Sanders Store. Fire Chief Ing said the fire department was notified by an unidentified youth who saw smoke coming from the basement as the youth was walking through the adjacent alley.

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