Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 29, 1994                   TAG: 9407290093
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By MEGAN SCHNABEL STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SEARCHERS FIND FOREMAN'S BODY IN COLLAPSED GILES COUNTY MINE

Searchers found the body of Barry B. Snider, 37, about 12:30 p.m. after a volunteer team of search dogs and handlers from the Charlottesville area pinpointed the location, said Tom Creedle, vice president in charge of sales for Eastern Ridge Lime Co., in a prepared statement.

The body was recovered by the Giles Rescue Squad and taken to Giles Memorial Hospital.

Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration officials were directing recovery efforts, Creedle said, and will continue to investigate the cause of the collapse that also hospitalized a second miner.

Jeffery Morgan, 32, of Princeton, W.Va., was released Wednesday afternoon from Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he had been treated for a fractured pelvis, hospital officials said Thursday.

Snider and Morgan were working in the lime company's mine on Virginia 684 near Kimballton when the cave-in occurred Monday. Although Morgan was rescued about an hour after the collapse, efforts to find Snider were hampered by hazardous conditions in the mine.

All production activity at the mine has ceased until federal investigators give clearance, Creedle said.

Keywords:
FATALITY