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Show j HEPPNER DEATH LIST GROWING. . Number of Victims Placed as High, as . Four Hundred. Latest developments show the "Meppner, Ore., death list will pass all previous estimates. Now prominent citizens are beginning to make estimates esti-mates of from 250 to 400, no one fifi? 1 lng below the former number. Not all these bodies will be found. Some ara washed to the Columbia river, forty miles away, and some are probably buried in the cellar bottoms right itti town. There are several large shifts of men at work, and corpses are being found many miles away. At the rata bodies are coming In the list will easily eas-ily reach 200 actually found, Identified Identi-fied and buried. There are doubtless dozens more. While the bodies recently found, were in horrible condition, many were, frozen stiff when found, a phenomenon rendered possible by their covering of hail. Great banks of frozen hail still lie in the drifts with the bodies. t Corpses not thus situated are so bad that the workmen hate to touch them. Where people .were rolled before be-fore a wall of hail during the flood., they are stripped naked and their flesh whipped into a solid bruise. |