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Show Number of DeJd. The number of dead Is merely a. . matter of estimate. Twenty' member.' I of rescuing pal-lie tell of how they saw people drop from hou.ies only to b.T swept awuy by the flood, auel oth- ( ers tell uf mon. who. terrific d at tho approach uf th.i fire, dropped Into the water, where they rnnk and did not. reappenr. Tho estlmnled number of I dead does not include tbo largo niitn-I niitn-I her classed as missing.' who cannot oiherwlBC bo accounted for. Neither doe It Include the number who art supposed to have lost their Uvea In tho-Are. tho-Are. In the la'tor class thnr la absolutely ab-solutely no menne of arriving at even, nn approximate number of victims. |