Show HEART OF CITY a Une One Hundred and Fifty Business Houses Including Norf Norfolk's lk s Big Hotel Are in Ruins Many Thrilling Rescues by Firemen B Associated Pre Press s. s NORFOLK A l-A A heap of ot smoking ruins Is all that remains of the Atlantic ii lel Ri mS mas ma massive lve Columbia office building which adjoined the hotel the Albemarle il fi flats ts and a block of ot stores stores' In the centre of ot the city One Onehundred Onehundred Onehundred hundred and fi fifty bull in all were destroyed The conflagration one of the jr greatest atE t. t in the the o of Norfolk broke out shortly before 2 this morning and when finally finally subdued more ore than half halt a million dollars' dollars worth of property property had had beep been a Destroyed roY d The The loss loss is believed to be fully covered by in insurance in- in If if k S 1 The flames sta started ed In l the which Is the large largest t building b bit lt one I structure six stories high and was built in m Norfolk's office b was wass a In 1892 by Davis Lo Lowenberg its owner The fire was first discovered at this morning and shortly afterward f ard 1000 gallons of whisky stored In the building exploded with terrific force forc forc tearing out the second wall The The firemen were driven back by the explosion n and before they could get a stream stream of ot water on t. t the flames this building w was s on fire Hardly fifteen minutes munte te later ter th the I north orth wall which was oY over r seventy-five seventy feet high fell In In c completely completely annihilating the h home me of the Virginia club which adjoins the ithe the north From the the- outset It was evident that the im immense immense im- im mense Atlantic doomed fj J. J H Hull ll Davidson its personallY made mad the rounds ot the aided by his assistants aroused every guest guestIn In the building 4 J i t I 1 j To this is due the the the-t t that so far as known life was lost altho although gh about J. J people were asleep oh the hotel when the al alarm rm was sounded The little army O dressed lf men and wom women n refugees refugees from the flames elbowed their way vay the the crowded streets In their hands they carried such small they were were able tp save in their flight The flame flames soon sg to the story five-story Albemarle apartment house opposite opposite site the Virginia clu clup h was quickly destroyed and then to the entire blo block le facing the Atlantic nd pd running from Plum to Main Maln streets Within an block a t d. d hour this was |