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Show prevent entrance of those wte ara aot Identified with the plant. The oelr Information obtalnaM la that sSthered from the rescuers. It waa estimated by aoma tofifcrtit that It mar be two days baton all the Indies ara recovered. According to a statement given oat bv the Oliver Mm Ins; company, that flvs bodies had been taken tMa afternoon from the mine, eight known dead were at i U la the mine, one w aceountad for and four Injured. According to the Information In-formation mora eecaped than waa supposed sup-posed Saturday night- Tha company officials of-ficials believe that bo store tha eighteen men lost their Uvea, i W. J. CHooct and several other offt-etale offt-etale of tha Oliver Mlnina com pen v left Duluth thin mornlnr bv special train for the arena of accident. They spent tha greet er part of tha day thera and returned re-turned tonight. n Eiuo::3fD iiah , IS RES(UZ0 ALIVf; C031ES RECOVERED Captain Benny the Only Survivor of Minnesota , ' Mine Accident. DUIX'TH. Winn., laarch II. Captain Beaar ef the Elba mine at Gilbert, at Ins-, who with two miners wss entombed ta a hart lie feet below tbe surface 8etur day by a cave-In. was reeousd alive under aad taken to bus kowja. Ha was eertouelr Injured. Tbe mlaera. however, met what must have bees Instant death, aa tha bodies were crushed aad bruised at a horrible shape. That Captala Beany at alive la considered a marvel. Hla condition la reported aa eausmely critical. crit-ical. Physicians arc at his bedolda making mak-ing every effort to restore him. Although Al-though sufferta from three broken ribs and s bmkea shoulder Made, aad es-hauated es-hauated from partial auffocatlon. Captala Cap-tala Bennr, when taken to the top of the ahaft Ineleted oa returning to aid In rescuing? tbe workmen still entombed. en-tombed. Finned Dow fcw Timbers. He waa finally prevailed upoa to go to hla home and receive medical attention. atten-tion. He aald that his libs bad beea crushed In by the weight of timbers piled upon him aad that he bed broken his shoulder blade In bis efforts to ex-trlcste ex-trlcste himself. Ten bodies crushed almost Into aa aa-recoem aa-recoem laaMe mesa had been recovered at 4 o'clock last night from the Nonas open Pt mtna, where the rsrs-tn onMried. burring twenty-eta miners. The other fifteen bodlee have beea reached and tbe mine officials are bend ing everr effort to expedite rescue work. There la ao bops that any others will be takea out alive. To hastea tha work additional dams hava been sent for. and as thees are capable of lifting many toaa of ore, they will. It . Ie thought, bring te light the mleetng bodies Tbe ten bodlee thus far recovered lie at a awrgue which waa beeleged all day fluaday by wlvea, children chil-dren and relatives of the dead men. Accident Daa to Thaw. The catastrophe la attributable. It Ie aald. to the thaws of the last few days suddenly loosening boulders and carta and forcing the ore bodr to slide. Officiate end miners are noncommittal regarding the accident and a eordoa of gnarde la etatloned about the worke to |