The Kennon Hotel was threatened with a serious fire last night when flames were discovered in room No. 211 on the second floor.
Prompt work on the part of the local fire department however, confined the damage to a badly burned bed and door. The room was ?? occupied and how the fire originated remains a deep mystery.
The fire was discovered by one of the waitresses, who roomed up on the third floor, just over 211. She noticed smoke pouring up through the cervices of her room, it was stated, and conveyed her fears to Mr. Coplon, the night clerk. He rushed up to No. 211 and on opening the door found the room was on fire.
When the draft created by the opening door reached the flames, they spread rapidly, and for a time it appeared as if the building might be endangered. The firemen reached there just in time. Had they been delayed five minutes longer, many on the scene believed, they would have had much difficulty in checking the flames.
Mr. Coplon was at loss to explain how the fire started. The room had not been occupied since the previous night and all of the windows were down, eliminating, it is though any possibility of the blaze starting from a spark from the flue of either the adjacent laundry or pressing club establishment.
Will Bryant, a member of the fire department, received a bad gash above his forehead when a chemical tank which he was endeavoring to hoist up to the second floor slipped and struck him a glancing blow. Bryant was at the top of the ladder, passing the apparatus to men on the second floor from the trucks. Thinking the man who was receiving the apparatus had a secure grip on the chemical tank, he turned it loose. Such was not the case and the tank fell, hitting him on the head.
Four stitches had to be taken by the attending physician to sew up the wound.
From page 2 of The Goldsboro News, May 9, 1925
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