Show MINE DISASTER DIAl DEATH TUlliS TOLL IS 10 24 Six More B Bodies dies Found by Rescue Crews in Sh Shafts 70 STILL ARE MISSING Coroners Coroner's Jury Prepares to Open Inquiry rAu FAIRMONT I IO T W w. Va Ya Va 2 May 3 AP The The bodies of or six additional vIctims victims vic vIc- tims of the mine disaster dis lUs aster were located by uy rescue workers work work- ers at noon toda today making tie tle total known dead 24 The rescUers ers continued continued continued con con- th their ir search for 70 O miners still missing Led by nobert flobert Lamble Lambie chief of the West Vest Virginia mining department department depart depart- ment and G George Gorgo Orge McCaa of the United States bureau of or mines fresh rescuers went into the he workIngs workIngs workings work- work Ings today to review th the progress made during the night ight In the fight against fire and gas While the rescuers rescuer had bad little to say it was U tl the e general belief bellet that they wo would would- conquer conquer quer gas during th tb the da day daj and an iid would reach v ii sst g. g i h ln be found bel before ore nightfall AMBULANCES READY A fl fleet et of at ambulances manned mannel by physicians and nurses was as ht held ld at the mouth of the mine ready forthe forthe for for- the run to hospitals from th the the- mine should any live after b being trapped In th the workings since an explosion Saturday which killed seventeen men and Injured seven others A temporary morgue a a. a tent also was In readiness While R R. M. M Lambie Lamble chief of the West Virginia m ne' ne bureau expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed hope that some some of or the en entrapped entrapped entrapped en- en trapped men might live and pushed his rescue crews to the limit Fairmont Fair Fair- mont and Morgantown 1 prepared for civic burial of two of the unidentified dead Fire was believed to be raging within the mine though efforts to locate It vero unsuccessful Workers Work Work- ers could only guess at its position as they the tunnels to choke the blaze TO EXPLORE MINE Mine l experts were to explore the mine today to determine the the- probable probable able caust cause of the blast The coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coro coro- ners ner's jury of six Morgantown 1 business business business busi busi- ness men was to begin hearings Into the cause of the di disaster aster as soon loon as the experts report was wasa available Relatives of the entombed men kept up a practically hopeless vigil outside t tle e mine waiting for the word that would herald the reachIng reachIng reaching reach- reach Ing of at those entombed A |