Show 10 1000 00 MISSING IN JAPAN JAP AN FLOOD W A Akita Prefecture Japan Nov 20 US UP Three RI-Three Three thousand rescue workers dug tonight in treacherous mud for the bodies of 1000 missing residents of this town engulfed by the tho rushing waters of ofa ofa ofa a broken mine reservoir Some of the bodies bodies' were burled buried 20 feet deep in the poisonous ooze Eighty bodies had been f fund found und at nightfall The railroad bureau said said houses had been swept away and inundated The known d dead ail was placed at with 1000 still missing The torrent raced down upon the village from one ne of th the largest copper copper copper cop cop- per mines in in the empire Sleeping inhabitants were trapped in their beds Their homes were caught up by the flood and dashed against the rocky banks of a mountain stream The majority of the residents met immediate death by drowning Others Others Oth Oth- ers were vere suffocated in mud Carried earned tarried tar ear ried ned by the water a poisonous solution solution so so- lution lutton which was used at the mine for washing copper ores Hundreds of bodies w were re washed onto th the banks of the mountain stream transformed into a muddy torr torrent nt Many were were women who still clasped babies in their arms Rehabilitation work began immediately immediately immediately imme imme- after the news of the disaster disaster dis dis- dis aster ster was flashed lashed to near-by near Ati- Ati ka ks City Japanese troops were ordered ordered ordered or or- dered sent to assist local detachments detachments detachments detach detach- ments in restoring order in the vi vi- vi Staff members of the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- ariese anese Red Cross health officials doctors and nurses hurried to the scene The bursting of the reservoir was believed caused by heavy rains which swelled swelled- its contents Rescue workers found only 18 survivors The mine mil employed about 2000 workmen many of whom lived in while others resided in neighboring villages |