Pasquotank County NcArchives News.....Destructive Fire in Elizabeth City February 16, 1860
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Thurs. Feb. 26 , 1860, North Carolina Argus February 16, 1860
                    FORTY HOUSES DESTROYED 
   -- We regret to learn from letter received in our city last evening , that 
another very destructive fire has taken place in Elizabeth City, which has 
consumed about 40 houses on Road Street, the principal business thoroughfare, 
together with an immense amount of goods. The stores of THOS. GATKINS, THOS. 
R. COBB, POOLE & WHEELER, W. W. BURGESS and others, are mong those consumed.
Several of the buildings were new and had just been completed, The fire broke 
out at 2 a.m. Tuesday, in a new warehouse belonging to MR. COBB, and raged for 
hours with great violence, the flames sweeping onward on both sides of the 
thoroughfare, furious by a strong breeze blowing at the time, and meeting 
across the street formed an immense fiery arch, above which they towered and 
flashed fiercely. The scene was grand and awful, and the excitement of the 
multitude that witnessed the destructive conflagration was increased by the 
fear that the whold town would be swept away.
   By this dread visitation in that pleasant town, many persons are thrown out 
of employment, a number of families are deprived of shelter, and means of 
support and an immense loss has been incurred by individuals and the 
corporation at large.
   This sad calamity, which has so quickly followed another, in the same town, 
and which we chronicled last year, is again declared to be the fiendish work 
of some heartless and inhuman incendiary. The torch was applied at the dead 
hour of night, the place selected to kindle the devouring flame being the 
first story of a new warehouse stocked with goods by an enterprizing citizen.
   We truly hope there is sufficient insurance to enable the sufferers of this 
destructive fire to commence without much delay the work of rebuilding and 
that further and more full particulars may not be so gloomy as the account 
received last evening. Meanwhile, we suggest that our citizens assist promptly 
in relieving those who are rendered houseless and penniless by this sudden, 
unexpected and calamitous conflagrations.
                                     (Norfolk Argus, 15th inst.)

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