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Show I- FEW BODIES RECOVERED. Debris Along Wreck-. trcwu Coast Now Object of Searchers. PENSACOLA. Fla., Sept. 29. The vastness of the destruction wrought by tho hurricane of Thursday morning is now being realized. Twenty-five persons per-sons arc known to havo boon drowned. Oulv four bodies havo been recovered, recov-ered, "those of Mrs. Prentice, Georgo Morgau and daughter and George Gon-zal. Gon-zal. Searching parties are tearing away the debris strewn along the beach, and, although several bodies have been seen, tho workers as yet have been unablo to reach them. . - Looters followed in tho wake ot tho hurricane and fifteen extra policemou are ou guard. Calls for charity havo been made to assist the poor, and everything possible to relievo the 2000 homeless is being done. Santa Rosa quarantine statiou, across the bay from 'the city, has been demolished. de-molished. Thero were eight seamen in the hospital from a British steamer. The hospital building was carried away, the eight men clinging to tho roof. Five were washed UDon this side after a night of terror on the bar. and the other three wero drowned, with two nurses. The United States quarantine station has been destroyed. |