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BAY ST^;,OUIS HA'j DISASTROUS ■'".1 00, 000 '.-'IRE
November 16, 1907
Gulfport The Daily Record-Trifcune - r.ritui-oay, ?.Tov. 16, 1907
BAY ST. LOU15 GUTTED BY FIRE
This morning a fire was discovered about 5 o'clock in Osoinach' Thr ea t re.
Immediately north of the big Opera House was located the Merchants Bank while in the same yard, a little westward, stood the handsome home of Walter Gex the well known attorney.
Across the street were located Evans' Drug Store, an annex to the Clifton House, a fruit stand, and Kiss Josie Welch’s Book
store.
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South of the Opera House extending to the corner of Union Street where the fire was finally brought under control, stretched a number of costly buildings including the Clifton Hotel,
St. Joseph's Convent, the Catholic Church, the Planchet Store building, and a number of nrivate dwellings.
The Bay is supplied with very poor fire fighting apparatus and	still poorer system of water works.
•It was only the wide sweep	of open	country	between	the	Bank
and the Pickwick Hotel that kept the latter from going also.
The Markey House, one of the old landmarks was gone and the Convent building, loved and revered by every Bay St. T.ouisian—also the Church..of Our lady of the .Oulf.
Osoinach's Opera House was of recent construction at a cost of S12';000.- It is said to be insured for about ^,000.
The Merchants Bank was completed ^bout six months ago of trick and cost 510,000.
The Convent consisted of several buildings worth in the neighborhood of Sl8,000 or $20,000.
The Church was a venerable	old pile	and,	together	with	the
rectory, cost about $20,000.