The courier-index., 1921-01-07

Two disastrous fires in the business district of Ma ranna Wednesday night entaled losses aggegating ap rroxmatey $25OOO The first fire broke in Ciener haberdashery South Poplar street about II o'clock We'd neday night guttng the Cener and Tucker stores About 1230 o'clock while the fire department fighting the Cener and Tucker fire confagraon started the ond floor of the Marianne Motor Companys building on the corner of West Main and Church streets Within hour this handsome structure, with all it's equipment and accessories and about sixty automobiles destroyed enang loss of approximately SS5OOO The fire depart men divide its forces sending part of the and equipment to the Maranna Motor Company fire two blocks away while the other section renamed to fight the Cener fire.
 It is not definitely known how either of the fires ed generally supposed the Cener blaze caused by electric iron used in the cleaning and pressing depart men in the of the building Two weeks ago the rent was left when the iron had been but the in cpen fire discovered in time to prevent conflagra ton w. Syrett the manager of the Cener store stated the Courierndex editor yesterday he did not believe the
 fire from the iron He said the negro in charge of
 this department quit work at six o'clock in the evening and that he Syfrett) in the store taking stock until ten o'clock that night He believes that if the current had been left he would have noticed sometime during the night
 The fire in the Marianna Motor Company's building started in the battery rechargg department the second the elevator shaft Thirty minutes before this blaze broke out Will B Word of the employees of the company in the building and did not observe fire About twenty minutes before the fire O. Ewar manager and one of the building and plant passed the place his way the Ciener fire He looked in his build ing as he passed and everything seemed to be all right The
 fire apparently started with explosion of kind H. P Slaughter night policeman in the alley in the of M H. Fords when he heard explosion on the second floor of the building and immediately the flames eaped of the window the store occupied by Phil Block taller Within remarkably short space of time the entire structure abaze So rapidly did the fire spread that of the sixty the building could be removed Two under the shed back of the building pushed % safety
 The Cener fire was stubborn proposition for the
 fire fighters The blaze seemed to be concentrated in the ceiling where the fighters could not reach It. For an hour huge volumes of smoke poured out the venators m the front of the Cener and the Tucker store immediately north which separated from the Cener quarters by thin wall All efforts reach the fire with the six streams of the department was using were futile It not until the fire had burned all the supports to the roof and ceiling causing the roof to fall n that the fe fighters could extingush the flames
 The Ciener stock valued at approximately SS5OOO and the fixtures at S7O00 The stock insured for S20OO and the fixtures for $300 The Tucker stock of general merchandise was valued at rom >10VVV to SV Insurance to the amount of $l35O0 carried on It.
 The Maranna Motor Company's loss was SSlOOO on the building $60OO machinery and equipment SlOOOO tires accessories etc., and $50OO on new and old cars The insurance $2500O on the building 4OOo on ma chinery and equipment $S000 stock and S5OOO on ears Among the cars destroyed a Nash Coupe Nash Sport model and Nash Quad truck The blanket policy of $0O old and does not by any means cover the loss. Many used had recently been taken m on debts and others on trades The policies cover only hall the value of these In addition to the stock cars wen v belonging to individuals were stored in tne plant None of these saved While deflnite figures as to the value of each of these cars cannot oe ooheo from Mr. Ewart the Courerndex has secured practically
 complete list with the of insurance carried on most of the They as follows: R. hatzensten Nash car $500; Miss Macon Derrick Nash car SzVVOi J. S. Haley Paige car, $500; w. w Word Ford car S4OOi G. Apple estate Buick $1 900; Dr. C. T. Chandler Over land S7OO; M Jackson Ford S30O Will Lynn Paige car, S7OO: Raymond West Hudson S25OO; M Lewis, Nash car 1OOO w. B. Word Ford car $50O Spence Bros Nash truck $l5OO; w. Humphreys Nash car SlzOV' w.