Fire completely destroyed the store and stock of J.A. Meeder at Vaughan near midnight Tuesday, jumped the road and wrecked a blacksmith shop belonging to the Rev. D.A. Fishel, and made a complete night of destruction of everything in the block by sweeping away a storage house which belonged to J.A. Myrick.
The fire started soon after the midnight train had passed, and it was said at Vaughan on Wednesday afternoon that a spark from the train probably caused the blaze.
When discovered by J.H. Harris the fire had wrapped the large wooden, two-story building in a sheet of flame. Three automobiles, a horse, and the stock of goods of J.A. Meeder when away in smoke before efforts of a volunteer fire force saved the surrounding dwellings. There was little insurance upon the property.
From the front page of The Warren Record, Warrenton, N.C., Nov. 3, 1922
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