A full crew of 25 Bemidji firemen battled throughout the night to extinguish two disastrous fires, one of which wiped out the Stone-Ordean-Wells wholesale grocery warehouse and the second which gutted the Coast to Coast Store in the Ibertson building. An estimated $30,000 of stock in the warehouse was destroyed. Fire Marshal Pete Johnson and Fireman Allan Doran were overcome at the Coast to Coast fire and had to be rescued. (Nov 28, 1936)
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