A rooming house at 300 W. Union St. owned by Leonard Rodd was damaged by fire shortly after noon Saturday. Continue reading
Category Archives: Businesses
Fire razed the workshop of E.W. Toler’s upholstery business near the city limit on South Court Street Friday afternoon after the building caught fire when a stove pipe fell. Continue reading
A gas torch used to thaw out frozen water pipes in the Ed Alexander Store caused fire damage, estimated at over $50,000 the afternoon and night of December 28, 1925. Losses were sustained by Ed Alexander, John Fower, E.A. Hearn, … Continue reading
About 7:30 P.M. police saw smoke coming from the Moore Jewelry Store window on the North Side of the Square. Before that fire was extinguished, Marion had suffered a loss of more than $125,000 that night. Continue reading
The remaining wall of the Goodall Hotel building were pulled down by cables attached to C.I.P.S. trucks. Two small boys found what is evidently an heirloom in the remains of the fire Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading