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Show 215 MINERS TRAPPED " I IN BUTTE MINE I lWty lkdle Kecou-ml and 17ft Still .Missing of -111 Men In Spwturulnr Workings When Flame llroko Out on Friday Night. iisASTi:it ;ui:ati:st IX HtSTOllY OF CITY Flro Started In iMOO-Foot I,ccl When Carbide l.nmp Cnmc In Contact with Tuir-Soukcd Cable ltiMihttor mid Was Spread by (ins. Uutte, Mont., Juno 10. Fp to midnight mid-night forty-eight bodies had been ro- covored from the works of the- North llutto Mining company, In which fires nro burning. All hopo of any of the missing men having escaped had been abandoned. It is likely thnt tho death list will exceed 200. The rescued in tho North llutto numberc 222 nnd in tho Diamond mine GO. llutto, Mont., Juno 9. Mlno res-cuo res-cuo organizations were searching tonight to-night tho underground working of thu Speculator and Oranlto Mountain mines of tho North llutto Mining company, In which 175 miners nro missing m a result of a flro early today. to-day. Forty bodies havo beon taken out. When tho wlro was discovered 412 men were In tho mines. Hopo of finding tho missing men nllvo virtually virtu-ally has been abandoned. Tho flro started on tho 2100 lovol ' when a carbtdo lamp cninii In con-: tact with Insulation on nn electric cablo. The Ornnlto Mountain shaft hns caved In for a considerable distance dis-tance The city has gono Into mourning. Flags aro at half-mast and all public pub-lic amusements havo been suspended becnuso of tho dlsastor. All lloc Abandoned. All hopo that any of tho unaccounted unac-counted for miners, believed to number num-ber more than 175, hnd escaped from tho North llutto mines In which fire broke out lato last night, was abandoned aband-oned tonight when tho helmet men penetrated to the 2200-foot level of tho Speculator mlno from adjoining mines, waded through water up to their armpits, encountered strong gas nnd saw innnj bodies which they 'H were unablo to recover. M It had been planned to attempt of H hoist cloven bodies through the Illgli H Ore mine of tho Anaconda Mining H company, but the shirting In the alrr ,H currents drove out the helmet men,. H nnd to prevent the High Oro mlno ,H and others from rilling with gas,. H bulkheadlng was started early to- ,H night and tho bodies will bo waited! H In with concrete until some furthorV H day when the extinguishing of thin ,H flro will permit their recovery. 'H Tho entlro mlno rescuo orgnnlziv H tlon of llutto Is engaged in rcsctua H |