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Show RESCUE CREWS STILL WORKING Eccles, W. Ya., May 1 Rescm-crews Rescm-crews last night assembled thirteen bodies at the foot of shaft in min No 5 of the New River Coal company and today continued their work cf ex ploration In the hope of locating all of the 172 men who. It now seem? certain, lost their lives in the explosion explo-sion last Tuesday afternoon. Fumps were kept going and by dawn the mine was comparatively free of water. wa-ter. The force of the explosion was so great that masses of earth and rock were dislodged and the galleries chok ed. It may be days before the dead have been recovered Thirty-seven miners, employed in No. 6 w hen the explosion occurred I late Tuesday afternoon, owe their; lives to the courage of little Davy i Buckhannon, a trapper boy. and tbe resourcefulness of the first boss. A P. Burdlss. Davy heard the explosion explo-sion in No 5 and knew that the cloud of afterdamp soon would fill the worl;-ings worl;-ings of No 6. Without a thought and not knowing how soon the cloud of du6t in No. 6 would go, he ran along the K)llcry. shouting a warning .u tfie mou'h of every room. The men ran to tbe mine entrance where the fire boss quickly gathered them ut the underground storehouse. There he distributed brattice cloth, and directing direct-ing them to a room far irom the entry en-try connecting with No. 5. showed tbem how to close a door that would shut out the gases. After three hours of anxious waiting the Imprisoned Impris-oned men were found by a rescue party par-ty headed by Superintendent Thomas Donaldson, who piloted them to sale- ty. no |