THE SEARCH FOR RELICS.

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CHAPTER XVI.

THE SEARCH FOR RELICS,

HE week began with a search for relics.

It w r as a difficult task. The wind was cold;the water was deep and frozen over. Snow andashes filled the air. A confused heap of iron,tin roofs, broken trucks, and other debris weremingled into one mass of ruins.

A oompany was organized for the work, withthe train-dispatcher at the head. Men werehired, police were stationed, the ice was broken,irreat iron beams and rails and rods were drawn

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out, trucks and wheels and brakes and boltswere moved away, and every spot was searchedfor traces of the dead. Watches, jewels, shredsof clothing, hands of women and arms of menwere found. It was a place where dia-monds lay; a stream where nuggets of gold