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Show BODIES ARE DiSCOVERED ) Eleven Dead Found in K the Starkville Mine--Rescue Is Slow Starkville. Colo.. Oct. 11. At 4 a. m. a telephone message from the mine .uted.' that tho rescue party had found two dead bodies In the fate of r.iom SO of entry J-7. The party 1 no working In room 31 clearing tho after-damp and searching fur bodbM. Entry J 7 has rooms numbering up (o ! was along this entry that th plckmen were working on the rilht of the explpslon. Stsrkville. Colo.. Oct. 11. The finding find-ing of the bodies of two of the victims vic-tims of the Saturday's explosion lu j the Starkvllle mine early this Tiorn-Ir.g Tiorn-Ir.g h.is caused redoubled acthlty among the rescue parties although practically no hope remains of finding find-ing any of the -fifty-two entombed miners alive. i The bodies found thin morning, ac- cording to telephone advices from tho mine, were In room Ttrt of entry J-7. where ihe ptckmen wore working at the time of the exploblon. No more bodies u ere found In this room and tie rescuers Immediately set to work to clear ro-un 31 of the deadly after- 1 damp. Starkvllle. Colo., Oct. 11. The bo I- j !es of the first two victim of Saturday's Satur-day's explosion were brought out of the nilne at 10:?." thin morning. The arpearaDco of the ladies bore out the conjecture that the men In ' J-7 hnd been killed 'by the force of ! the ixploslon and had not succumbed to the aiter-danip. I The victims were taken to the torn- i porary morgue, a mile and a half from j tlie mine portal. The bodies were : found lying topethor In Chamber 3 . j Government Expert to Aid. Starkvllle, Colo., Oct 1 1 Fifty-four hours after the explosion occurred 1m tbe stTkvlIle mine, of the Colorado Kurd & Iron company, entombing more than fifty men, the first of tho , boJIr of the victims were found by i carcher. Two men were located at ! 3i."0 o'clock th!n morning In chamber I C'i of entry J-7, 12,000 feet from the I mouth of the mine, and at a: 30 o'clock i eight morY were found In chambers "I and 3f. " " j The condition of the bodies Indicate that the men were Instantly killed by ihe terrific force of the expl s- Ion Several were badly burned but , ri-ne w.ib disfigured beyond Identifl- j fVion. Reports received from William Mor-' ?nn. superintendent of the Piedmont ' mine -who was leading the rescue , party or 3." men. Btated he did not b'lleve any more bodies would be f. und soon for the reason 'hat the rest of the Imprisoned men were cirpsny men and were scattered all through the various workings, engag-e engag-e 1 In repair work and similar pursuit!!. pur-suit!!. After the bodies reach the month of the tulDe, it hag been arranged to )--:ad Ihem upon mo'or cars for translocation trans-location to the morgue. Tho track f ver whkh the cars run Is In pla'n lew of the town The tow nseopl either In Ignorance of the dlscoiory of bodies or indifferent to It. remain away from the mine during the early oui-s. Perhaps It was due. to the r'rlct enforcement of ordors to permit ro one at the mouth of the mice. Cni-rd Intercepted all not connected with Ihe mine and turned thom back at a point a quarter of a mllo from the entrance. At 12:1." p. ru.. word was received af the portal ihat rescuers had reached reach-ed i i-Inst of eleven men. known U ! w -king in the .1 entries at the t n e of the explosion. The nine still 1n lb" 1 1 1 1 p must be carrl" I mt ev. r ft ;h usan.l feet of b idly w recked j -v -.r-f j Il -fore they can be put 0' u noral cars. Trc Ai-Hoclated Prexs dispatch from Y'.'ihlncion nylng that a special or "rnlni.; voveminent experts aud mln- -'' tr;iinid lu rescue work left Seattle t' biv for Starkville, was the first in-t in-t rn .Minn President .Wet born had re-' re-' !. d thn 'he federal government In-t In-t nik-d o b? represented In the res-'e res-'e .or'; ct the Starkvllle mine. V". Wei horn said he welcomed the ''TjIuc of the government expert. I "t t'll '-ellevrd that the cu-npany """Tlii wen- as aide to carry on the rV of recoverln r 1 dies as any. "I rvbi-r Imagine that government f'i l'U lele-ed that there are """i 'ill .'.i-e in the mine." said Vr. Wet l" n. ";ind tba thev are sen ling the tv.ierti to assist In reaching thftu." |