Everywhere    1     looked, there was nothing but ruins. Nearly everything in the city was    2    . About 75 percent of the city’s factories and buildings, 90 percent of its homes, and all of its hospitals were gone.     3     covered the ground like red autumn leaves, but no wind could blow them away. Most bridges had fallen or were not safe to cross. The railway tracks were now useless pieces of metal. Tens of thousands of cows, hundreds of thousands of pigs, and millions of chickens were dead. Sand now    4     the wells instead of water. People were in    5    .