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Show BODIES BURIED UNDER RUINS. Coroner of San Francisco Says Death List May Reach 1,500. Snn Francisco. Coroner Walsh Is still of tho opinion that tho romalnsi of hundreds of carthquako victims lid under tho ruins In tho burnt district. "When tho debris Is cleared away," ho said, "thcro -will bo at least a thousand thou-sand additions to tho death roll. I would not bo surprised if tho number reached 1,500. Great numbers of persons per-sons perished In tho cheap lodging1 houses thnt collapsed. Down In tho fish market district, whoro hundreds of men woro at work! at tho tlmo of tho carthquako, several sev-eral structures collapsed and the; workors hnd no tlmo to savo themJ solves. "Fow victims aro being found now becauso tho debris In tho places ot death is as yet untouched. Wo cannot-, o.xcavato tho ruins, for that work would require a thousand deputies. Wo can only wait for what wo know" must bo a tcrrlblo harvest." |