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Show Number of Dead. Tho numbor of dead is merely . matter of estimate. Twenty members; of rescuing parties toll of how they saw peoplo drop from houses only to bo swept away by tho flood, and others oth-ers tell of men, who, terrified at tho approach of tho flre, dropped Into tho water, whore they sank and did not reappear. Tho estimated numbor or dead does not include tho lnrgo number num-ber classed as missing, who cannot otherwise ho accounted for. Nolther does It Include the number who aro supposed to havo lost their, lives In tho-fire. tho-fire. In the latter class thero Is absolutely ab-solutely no means of arriving at cvon an approximate number of victims. |