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Bank Building Saved In Big Fire of 1910 |
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At 3:30 a.m. Thursday, February 1910 only one building in the block was
saved from the flames of disastrous fire that took the lives of Ray Farmer
of Forney and a Mr. Cowell of Kemp. The fire broke out in the kitchen
of the City Hotel and quickly spread to adjoining buildings, destroying
the I.O.O.F. Hall, Wilhoits Music Store, a grocery store, Griffin &
Venner's Drug Store and a Ball and Gilkey's Gents Furnishing Store. The
flames were checked in time to save the Farmers National Bank, the last
building on the block.come. |
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