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Show APPALLING DEATH ROLL ATDELAGUA Trinidad. Colo., Nov. 11. The known death toll of the Delagua mine I disaster of last Tuesday has now reached the appalling ietol of 79. All but nine bodies have been recovered, according to reports from the mine today. Seventy of the bodies, lnclud Ing that of Willis Evans, the young ' mining engineer who gave up his life to save a Slav miner from suffocation, j have been taken out. Those known to be still in the mine 1 include Superintendent Lew is, w hose body is supposed to be deep beneath j a great fall of rock. Thirty-eight bodies have been sent here for burial, tho remainder are In j the morgue at tho mine. Rescue parties are still searching ; every part of the mine for the nine missing bodies which It is bolleved will te recovered. |