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Show Number of Dead. The number of dead is merely a matter of estimate. Twenty members of rescuing parties tell of how they saw people drop from houses only ten beswept away by the flood, and others oth-ers tell of men, who, terrified at the-approach the-approach of the fire, dropped into the: water, where they sank and did not reappear. The estimated number oi dead does not include the largo number num-ber classed as missing, who cannot otherwise be accounted for. Neither does it include the number who are-supposed are-supposed to have lost their lives in the fire. In the latter class there Is absolutely ab-solutely no means of arriving at even, an approximate number of victims. |