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Searching The Ruins

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Day
18
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 12.- The work oi searching for the bodies in the ruins of Wednesday night's awful fire was continued throughlast night by 200 men, but no more bodies were found. The debris is still piled ten feet high, however, and as more than a score of peopie are still missing, the work will be continued without cessation until it is positively known that no more dead are buried beneath the debris. That more people are killed Chiel Humphreys of the flre department says there can be no doubt. He saw the walls go down in the midst of a great mass of humanity huddled together in a small space, and while he did not care to estímate the number of peopH killed, he says it will be largely in excess of any estímate yet made. The record of the fire at this time is: Known dead, 11; missing, 26; injured, 18; property loss, $1,600,000; insurance about $1,000,000.

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Ann Arbor Democrat