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Show FIVE HUNDRED BODIES. This Number Had Been Recoveree From Ruins Sunday Night. San Francisco. Tho totnl of bodlci recovered and burled up to Sundo) night Is 500. No complete record cat bo had at this time, as many bodlci havo been burled without permit! from tho coroner and tho board o health. Tho searchers of tho coron er's and tho board of health depart ments on Sunday found not moro that twenty bodies. Thoy were burled Immediately. Im-mediately. Fow of theso bodies could bo ldcn titled and tho grnves wero marked by uumucrs. it is lmposBiuio nt tno prcs cnt tlmo to obtain nny sort of death list or even to make a rcllablo estl mate as to tho number of casualties Whenever a body Is found It Is burled Immediately, without nny formality whatever, and ns mnny of these burials hnvo been mndo at widely scp aratcd parts of the city by different bodies of searchers, who do not over mnko a prompt roport to headqunrt crs, considerable confusion hns result cd in the estimating of tho totnl num her of cnsunltles and cxnggcrated ro ports havo resulted. |