Show LOSS OF LIFE f i Four Thousand n Victims Vi of f the Earthquake ke at at n Over Corpses s Recovered From the RUI s I Shocks Continued Continue I I j Ij J Ap Russian Turkestan AS x Dec 23 Even the worst of the earlier reports of the recent earth earthquake earthquake quake disaster at quite under underestimates estimates the appalling app loss ss of life A telegram today from the scene of q the catastrophe put jut the number of vic vie victims vIctims tims Urns in the native quarter of the town at at Already corpses have h V been disinterred from the ruins The work of excavation progresses slowly The state treasury containing roubles is in the ruins and excavations to get the money are carried on under supervision of a strong cordon of po police police lice Ilce The water in the wens wells has disappeared and a general subsidence of the th site of the town is feared Large num mum numbers numbers bers hers of laborers are being sent to ex cx excavate excavate Sappers have h ve arrived arri ced and are expected to make more rapid progress The shocks continue with increasing violence The area of seismic ance comprise square The Russian population is camping at the railroad station where cars are placed at the tie disposal of the tion The local i IS are quartered in cars Sheds w oj the desti destitute destitute destitute tute are being built as rapidly as possible ble bIe Free soup kitchens kitch ns have haye been started and officials are aiding the de do departure departure of the th inhabitants inh by distributing ing food odo mo an tick tickets ets ts tsAt At St Petersburg it is estimated that nearly have T ben een killed by the earthquake at The engineer officers at Andujan who were ere superintending superintending superintending tending the excavations being made with the tine view of recovering treasure at the sites site s of the army de tie department I state treasury postoffice I etc and the erection of sheds to shel shelter shelter ter the officials and other homeless people Peo pIe report that tha although the work j is progressing as rapidly as possible a month must elapse before the officers will be housed 1 The ads are aiding in itt the work I Iby by all p means furnishing free I transportation for provisions and arr l ma Ipa materials materials and conveying the inhabitants free of charge to towns In hi the govern government government ment meat of The cash remit remittances remittances i in aid of the tbt th destitute people have thus far been very small |