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
As the ruins of Tuesday’s fire which destroyed a business block on the east side of the Marion Public Square continued to smolder Wednesday afternoon, neither owner of the destroyed properties would venture a statement on plans to rebuild. Continue reading
Although a falling wall from the east end of the Goodall Hotel building crushed a side wall of the Marion Baking Corporation plant on Tuesday morning, that company is able to give “Service as Usual” to their patrons Continue reading