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Show INTERLOCKED TIMBER DELAYS RESCUE WORK One More Body Is Recovered Recov-ered From Centennial-Eureka Centennial-Eureka Mine. i Special to The Tribune. EUREKA, Sept. 21. Although workmen work-men are doing their utmost to cut through the maze of timbers and masses of rock that bar them from the body of John Knipe it was reported at the Centennlal-Eureka mine last night that the body would not be reached before tomorrow to-morrow The body of Kurt Zierrold, which lay but a short distance from Knlpe. was removed from the mine this afternoon. 1 Funeral services were held for Zierrold this evening at his home. Interment will be In American Fork, in compliance with a request of the dead man tome weeks before the accident. He is reported to have told his wife: "If I get killed in the mine do not bury me here. Take my body to American Ameri-can Fork." Zierrold Is survived by his widow and seyen children, the eldest 16 years of age, the youngest 14 months. The family fam-ily is practically destitute. An insurance insur-ance policy which Zierrold carried for the protection of his family was lapsea some time ago beca use of family illness. ill-ness. Mrs. Zierrold is almost Insane with grief. A subscription has been started to aid the stricken family. Worlc of running the rescue drifts Is extremely hazardous. The workers dare not remove a timber until they have replaced re-placed it with a solid brace. It required more than five hours of feverish work to release the body of Zierrold from the : timbers that Imprisoned it, although the i rescuers were able to touch it. Today a committee composed of citizens, citi-zens, members of the miners' union and county officials entered the rescue drift , to investigate the progress of the work, and ascertain if all was being done to expedite the work. The committee reported that so far as was commensurate with tlie safety of the workers, every possible step was being taken to recover the dead. Andrew P. Mayberry, superintendent of the mine, and J. C. Roberts, engineer of the federal mine rescue bureau, today made an investigation of the cause of the cave-in. They reported that a "false roof," which had separated the earth above and around it. by possibly a few Inches, had been suddenlv crushed by the settling of the mountain. The compact of the mass of descending material, according ac-cording to the engineers, crushed the "false roof" like an eggshell, hurling masses of earth and rock on the workers below. A similar cave-in was found to have occurred in the Grand Central workings abutting the Centennial-Eureka properties. proper-ties. The Grand Central mines have been abandoned for some time, and the engineers engi-neers were unable to fix the dale of the cave-in there. When Knipe's body is found but one of the men caught in that section of the mine, Edward Borwiek, will be unaccounted unac-counted for. lie is said to have been working but a short distance from Zierrold Zier-rold and Knipe. and his body will probably prob-ably be found later In the week. The rive men who will then be left in the mine were working in a different section, sec-tion, and a new drift will be driven to reach them. This will probably be driven through solid rock in connection with tho regular wurk of the mine. Mine officers say the workings will probably be reopened as soon as the body of Knipe is released. They explain that by working tlie mine, with the general idea of so running drifts that they will approach ,the supposed location of the bodies, the work of finding them will be greatly facilitated. In addition, it is said a rescue gang will run a direct tunnel to the spot where it is believed the bodies are entombed. |