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Show THREE HUNDRED CORPSES. Number of Victims Recovered Trom Ruins of the City of Shamakn, Destroyed by Earthquake St. Petersburg. Peb. 15 The latest news received here from Bhamaka con-firms con-firms the i pulling character ot ihe earthquake nt the place, and nd Is thnt threo hundred corpses have nlreidy been Inlten out of the ruins Th piles of wreckage are so vast that tho senrch Is necessarily slow Most nt tho vlc llnis were- Mussulmastt. The town Is now almost completely de8tro)cd, only a dozen houses being left standing nnd the loss of life Is very great. The chinch, the mosque, the barracks nnd the treasury were destro)ed. Twenty-five thousand Inhabitants In-habitants arc without food and ishel-ter ishel-ter The shocks continued todn) it appears ceitaln thit several hundred hun-dred bodies nre burled In the fissures and debris caused b) the shocks The quikes continue nt Intervals and the woik of excavating In search of the victims proceeds with difficulty. Among the dead nre many women, who nt the time of the principal shock weie congregated In the various bath houses |