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Show LATEST BiMCliL GENERAL. Tbe ICxploMon. Minneapolis, 4. Interest ou the scene of me great mill disaster of of ThursUay centres mainly in tbe search in the rums for additional re niaiua and in more accurate estimates of ihe money loss and prospects lor rebuilding. Working parlies are industriously eui;aged upon Ibe ruius hut their i peraiious are necessarily confined to the outer side of the wreck on account of the heat aud smoke still remaining m its vortex. Another lorce ot men was employed yesterday in eaviug tbe masses of wtieat winch bad only been partially 1 1 j tired by the fires and lies in great heaps at the westerly end ol the building. Two sales hve been taken from lae ashes, of Petlit, Robinson tV Co., bolt uf which are intact. The number of dead is now swelled to eigiueeu. The bodies of eight ul tbe eighteen have been recognized, fen more are buried in tbo ruins, j Every resemblance to humanity has been obliterated by the beat trial le It ! only cnarreu and blackeued trunks1 , in some cists aud in oibers only a few bandiuis of blackentd rx.iues which crumbled at the touch. Tnree M ice number were identified last nifcht. Speculation coutinuta as to the urigiu ot tue explosion. Anoihtr theory is thai the building became s'lp- rcharged with electricity, thrown; oil tiom snails and not neutralized ! by conductors, hece the othercharge ; which caused ibe destruction audi communicated the fir. ' As to the mi. Is, no dubt is enter Unud ttiat ail wiU be rebuilt at once. . General Washburn, wtio is here,' ?t,tes he wnl put up a mill on ihe ruins ol Ihe Uasnburu, aud which it, is be i it v til will be the largest iu the w rid, coutainiuij nil rum ot" slone. |