Show KILLED NUMBER ONE THOUSAND this estimate is made by san fran cisco coroner san francisco coroner william walsh estimates that the total number of dead will not be less than 1 his reports are complete and his estimate is made up from all the data he has been able to collect coroner walsh said bodies that the deputy coroners have found and buried number as follows at polk and bay streets 32 at portsmouth square 23 at washington square 12 at the six mile house at laurel hill 23 scattered in different parts of the city 10 no thorough search has been made of the district south of market or the chinese quarter many lives must have been lost in these sections south ot market street are the cheap lodging houses and many of these collapsed from the earthquake there Is little chance that halt of the inmates of the collapsed buildings had opportunity to escape this is also true of china town |