Fire, believed to have started from defective wiring, started a blaze in the New European Hotel on W. Main Street Sunday evening which destroyed the hotel, Cole and Sons Garage, threatened to destroy the Hughes building and the K.P.I.O.O.F. buildings and resulted in the death of Lester Madden, 21 of Chicago. Continue reading
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A fire at ten o’clock Tuesday morning in the Masonic building at the head of S. Market St. on the public square threatened to be a re-occurrence of the fire which badly damaged the building a few months ago but was extinguished with much additional loss. Continue reading
Fire discovered at 6:20 am Monday morning did damage estimated at over $5000 to the Masonic building at the corner of S. Market and Public Square. Continue reading
The Marion Merchants Association unanimously endorsed a thorough fire inspection as a means to maintain the low fire loss record in this city. Continue reading
A fire begun in the wash room in the basement of the Masonic and K.P. Building on W. Main was discovered and reported to the fire dept. at 6:45 am by H.O. Robertson, mgr of the Brown’s Business College. No serious damage.
(Extracted from the Marion Daily Republican and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us/ )