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Show NEW MUD SLIDES HALT RECOVERY OF MINERS' BODY The body of Claude Tinker, 41, of South Jordan, who was killed and entombed in a cavc-in cavc-in Sunday at Combined Metals Reduction mine m Butterfield canyon, had not been re-covered last night. New mud slides Wednesday further hampered efforts of three shifts of rescue crews to reach the body and made it likely like-ly that it will, be days more before be-fore the workmen recover the body. Mr. Tucker was trapped by falling timbers in a raise about 70 feet above the main tunnel. A fellow workman said he went up the raise to get some tools when he was caught in a slide that looked like a large flow of water and muck. In Utah Five Months Mr. Tucker had worked 111 mines min-es nearly all his life, being employed em-ployed in Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and other states before coming to Utah about five months ago. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna Tucker Roller, Slig-man, Slig-man, Mo., and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Eva Smith, Pasadena, Cal.; Amos Tucker and Mrs. Maude Vander-pool, Vander-pool, Loadville, Colo.; Lona Tucker, Tuck-er, Alma, Colo.; Christen Tucker and Murl Tucker, Alatha, Kan.; John Tucker, South Jordan, and Louis Tucker, Nogales, Ariz. O |