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Show RESCUERS ARE AT . WORK Twenty-Six Bodies Have Been Recovered From Lick Coal Mine Plueflcld. W. Va., Jan. 13. Rescue crews worked incessantly all night at Lick Branch coal mine, the scene of ypt-f rdayV explosion, and at 9 o'clotk todav 20 bodies had been recovered. There Ik no change in the estimate of dead, tho number ranglDg from 85 to 1 00. , it is not likely that any more bodies will be brougiit to the surface until late thU afternoon, although rescue crews will work all d.iy and lnb the night, relaxing every few hours, with, fresh forces of men, who have volunteered volun-teered from all over the coal fields. It was learned early today that the company, com-pany, had ordered eighty caskets and robes. A carload of necessities was shipped to th scene of the disaster today. James W. Paul, of Pittsburg, representing repre-senting the United States geological purvey. Is expected here today with a numUr of assistants. West Virginia mine int-pedors are arriving at tho mine with every train but they are almost al-most continually in the mine and all efforts to tlk with them concerning; tho cause of the catastrophe 'arc full fu-ll lo. One of the most rematkable features feat-ures of the accident is the escape of Clce Rowers, a mine foreman, who crawled on Ids hand8 and knees from the mine, while fire, smoke and deadly pa;s were abuot him. He Is the only man who reached the surface alive and Hit hough he lies in a hospital with two broken ribs, and other injuries, he will probably recover. |