An estimated total loss of $50,000 was sustained by fire of
unknown origin at Matthews, in Mecklenburg county, 13 miles north of here,
early Sunday morning. It is reported that no insurance was carried on the
buildings damaged or destroyed except the bank building. Buildings destroyed or
damaged were A.J. Williams Hotel and Williams Furniture Store, total loss;
Wadsworth’s Sales Stables, total loss, stock saved; Bank of Matthews, building
damaged, papers saved; Hood’s grocery store, total loss; Sinclair’s shoe shop,
total loss, fire originated here; two store frame residence, total loss; Mr.
H.M. Heath, whose home was recently destroyed by fire, was occupying rooms over
the sales stables, sustained a loss of all his household effects. Checks which
he had recently received for the insurance on his house were also consumed by
the fire. However, it is understood that these can be duplicated. Monroe
citizens who passed through Matthews Sunday afternoon characterize the fire as
one of the worst they had ever seen.
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