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Show SLOCUM HORROR GROWS. I List ef Dead Grows and May Now E A ceed 700. With unceasing effort, search la going go-ing on for the bodies of those who perished on the Oeneral Blocum, says ' f New York dispatch. What tha list of victims will total scarce any one .' darea venture a guess, but whatever j the number may bo, lb ore la hardly a 1 parallel In the history of disaster ' where death came to so many In so ' brief a period of time. Police and health department ot- 1 ficiala havo placed the number at a ' figure aa high as l.uoo and more, but It would aooui that the maximum fatal- I lly will not largely exceed 700. 1 |