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Show AN APPALLING LOSS OF LIFE i:aiitiiijiaici: i,v iiiiskia ukHTHovn'; I Kotiu Tint,M;.Ml rnoi'i.K... ,;... ' ; ' ' 'iKililif '"" '' ''"''' .lrrnilj l:lKltl Uumlrrl lloillpa Mho Itrrn Itrrutrrrfl 1'iotll tlia JCuIim Nhnrk CiMillliur With InrrmahiK Vlolrncw. ' ' lOveu tho worst of tho enrllor re ports,, of'-the recent. earthquake disaster disas-ter nt Andljan, Russia, qulto under-cstlmatO under-cstlmatO tlKapjiallliig loss of life. A telegram received at Ashkabad, , Rus-Blah' Rus-Blah' Tnrkcstan( from, tho feconqpf the cntastrop)io ptlt tho 'nnhihei of Victims' In file nndve qunrter of tho town nt l.jOO. Already. HH) cprpseg havo boon disinterred from the ruins. Tho work ut oxcnvntlon progresses slowly. The st'nto treasury, containing C.000,-000 C.000,-000 rouhlcs. Is In the ruins, nnd oxen-Vatlons oxen-Vatlons to get tho money nro carried on under supervision of a strong cordon cor-don or police. Tho water In tho wells has disappeared unit a general subsidence subsid-ence of the slto of tho town Is feared. Large numbers of laborers aro .bolng Bent to oxenvnte. Sappers havo nr-rlvod nr-rlvod nnd are expected to mako more rapid progress. Tho shoclis continue with Increasing violence. Tho area of seismic disturb-nnco disturb-nnco comprises 200 square vorsts. Tho Russian population Is camping at tho rnllrond Btntlon, whore GOO cars are placed at tho disposal of tho population. popula-tion. Tho local government officials are quartered In cars. Sheds for tho destitute nro bolng built as rapidly as -possible. Freo soup kitchens havo been started nnd officials nro aiding tho departure de-parture of tho Inhabitants by distributing distrib-uting food, money and freo rnllrond tickets. At St. Petersburg it Is estimated esti-mated that nearly G.00O havo ' been klllod by thq earthquake ut Andljnn. l'ho engineer olllcors at Andljnn, who were' superintending tho cxcnvntlons bolng mndo with tho view of, recovering recover-ing tho burled trensuro at tho sites of '.ho army department, stato .treasury, postolllcc. etc.. nnd tho erection of sln5ds to shelter tho officials and other homeless people report that although tho work Is progressing as rapidly an possible, a month must oiapso before tho olllcors will bo housed. |