Source: Lima News
Dated: Oct. 16, 1968DARKE COUNTY COMMUNITY BUILDINGS RAZED
BY FIRE
Arsonia . . . . A multiple fire early today destroyed a plastics
plant, bank, flower shop and Junior Chamber of Commerce Hall in this
Darke County community of 1000. The fire raged through a three
story building and a two story annex, that housed the C. and M.
Molding Co., Citizens Bank Co., the flower shop and the J. C. Offices
causing damages estimated at $800,000. The records and money in the
bank were protected by a steel vault. The fire was believed to
have started in a storage room of the plastics plant , although the
cause was not immediately determined. Fire departments from Ansonia,
Greenville, Versailles ,Union City, Rossburg and Arcanum fought the
blaze. There were no injuries. " Its a real bad fire and you can spell
that with capitol letters. ", said W. O. Burns, a dispatcher at
the Ansonia Fire Dept "There's an army of men out there fighting the
fire'" " The only thing left is the four walls of the building " Burns
said " It was one of those built a hundred years or so ago. Smoke was
a big problem and also not knowing where the fire would creep to." The
fire temporarily interrupted telephone service to the community |
