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Alma Record
Friday, 20 August 1886

         A destructive fire started in the kitchen of the
       Mancelona hotel, at Mancelona, Antrim county, on
       the 7th inst. It soon communicated with Van Hyning's
       livery barn and the following buildings were destroyed:
       Postoffice, Wise's hardware store, Wisler's grocery,
       Herrick's jewelry store, bank of Young & Sons, Week's
       blacksmith shop, Owen's residence, office of the Antrim
       County Independent, Tuttle's boarding house, Mancelona
       Herald, H. J. Hurlbut's house, Jas. I. Ayer's, Van
       Hyning's residence, E. C. Kellogg's gun shop and 
       justice office, Birk, merchant tailor, Dr. Cohford's
       house and office, J. H. Raymond's house and barn, W.
       Geobb's hardware store, J. L. Farnham's grocery, P. T.
       Allerton's saloon, C. L. Bailey's law office, H. B.
       Hudson's law office, besides several barns. Several
       persons narrowly escaped death, and several were in-
       jured by jumping from windows. The fire from the first
       was uncontrolable from the fact that the only appliances
       they have for putting out a fire is that it rains some-
       times. Very little of the property was insured and few
       of the sufferers can rebuild. The origin is unknown.
       The loss is estimated at $60,000 with insurance of
       $18,000.
       

       
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