Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....Three Die in Costly Blaze [Hohler, Laway, Tobias] 1922
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The Grand Forks [ND] Herald, Mar 9, 1922 1922
Cheboygan Business District Suffers Loss Approaching a Million

Cheboygan, Mich., March 8.—Two boys and a man are known to have lost their 
lives in a fire that destroyed four business blocks today with a property loss 
of more than $500,000. Firemen tonight were searching, for two other boys 
reported missing.

The bodies of Frank J. Hohler, former alderman; Edward Laway, 8, and Georg 
Tobias, 1O years of age, have been recovered. Hohler was trapped in his bakery 
as he attempted to rescue the Laway lad.

Cheboygan, Mich., March 8.—One man is dead, two boys are believed to have been 
killed, and three blocks in the business district are in ruins as the
result of a fire which swept Cheboygan today and which was only checked when 
apparatus from Gaylord and Grayling aided the local fire department. The loss 
is estimated at from $500,000 to $l,000,000.

The fire, which originated in the Frose-Kessler block is believed to have been 
started by a cigarette carelessly thrown into a waste basket.

Frank J. Hohler, a baker, was caught beneath the falling walls of his shop and 
killed. Allie Neeley, a small boy, saved his own life by taking shelter in a 
bakeover, and was rescued uninjured by firemen.

Two other boys were reported missing after a wall had fallen, showering debris 
on a crowd of spectators.

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