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Show More ol llie JKnnewpolls Dis I aster. I Mianeapolia, 3. The total loss is ' now estimated at $1,000,000, which, I may be increased, later. Search for the dead has programed ali d'ty as fast aa the fire cjuld be extinguished 'and the ruins cooled. Up to 11 'o'clock this morning the black and .unrecognizable remains of seven i of the unfortunate victims of the Washburn mill bud been recovered. These wera carefully covered cov-ered and carried to the machine shop I of the Milwaukee and, St. Paul and deposited on the floor at the southern end of the building, while a crowd of j anxious relatives were waiting to identify iden-tify the lost. Th6 appearance of the j bodies, or what remained in the shape of charred bones, or little heaps of black ashes, which emitted a sickening sick-ening odor, will never be forgotten by any of the spectators. But one body bore any resemblance to human form, and even this was horrihly distorted with the head, arms and legs burned I to crisp or removed, and the trunk par j tially eaten away by the terrific heat. Tan is boiieved to be that ol John Bjyer. The smaller fragments of bodies were ranged in close proximity to the larger trunk above described. Seven were depoaued alt together, one of which was brought in an elevator ele-vator bucket. Search was industriously industri-ously continued all through the after-coon. |