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Show por stoi-y of the woolen mlil. They are well fed, but extremely uncomfortable. uncomfort-able. The property loss, from the best estimates es-timates now possible, will amount ap proximately to $1,000,000. The whole ol North Topeka is still under water several sev-eral feet deep. While, the 200 people that are penned up in the second stories stor-ies of houses have plenty of food, they are in great need of good drinking drink-ing water, which is being supplied as rapidly as possible in barrels and cans. The great fear at present is that some of the buildings in North Topeka may collapse because of their foundations founda-tions being undermined. There is no immediate apprehension that the woolen mill will go down, but every effort will be made to extricate people from that point as quickly as possible, to avoid any further loss of life. LOSS OF LIFE EXAGGERATED. Number of People Who Perished at Topeka is Thirty-four. It now appears that the first reports of the loss of life at Topeka, Kansas, was greatly exaggerated. At this time there are thirty-four known dead. About 200 people are still at North Topeka, 150 of them being in the up- 1 |