DEsrRucrIvE FlRE AT NoRroLK-j
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 DEsTRUCTIvE FIRE AT NoRPoLK-Dis- stressing Loss of Life.-A fire occurred at Norfolk, on the 10th inst, winch was at- tended with most distressing loss of life It broke out in grocery store in Main street. and the wind blowing heavily from the South, communicated the flames to the op- posite buildings in the same street, two of which were destroyed, also two other build- ings in the same block in which the fire originated. The entire loss is estimated at S60,000, about one-third of which was covered by insurance. Of the accident which occurred after the fire, the Herald makes the following statement:

 Alter the engines had ceased playing on the smoking ruins, which it was thought they had effeciually ex,inguished, some boys venlured in among them and began searching about for ''findings," and in turning up the rubbish in the cellar of Robertson & Cor hicks store, volume of flame, caused by the ignition of vessel of camphine or spirits of turpentine, concealed beneath, suddenly burst up, covering two of the boys with the burning liquid, and they were instantly euyeloped ill flames They scrambled out and gained the street in this horrid plight Several hundred people were near, yet to afford them no relief was impossible, for each of the boys was literally pillar of firel One of the hapless youths instinctvely ran to the pump a, the head of marketsquaFe, 1 Ia distance of about thirty yards) where buckets of water were instantly thrown upon him and the fire extinguished; the other fell immediately on reaching the street, when inc fire was with difficulty extinguished by 1 throwing blankets around him-but, alas , too late. They were so dreadfully burned as to present an appearance too shocking to describe"

 One of the lads, a son of Mrs. Brown, died soon after, and the other, son of Mrs. Daniels, was not expected to survive.