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Just heard Fred Phelps, and his crew are coming to Man, West Virginia on Sunday.

<p>Bodies found very near the original point of the conveyor fire.</p>

MELVILLE, W.Va. -- Intense heat from an underground fire slowed rescue crews and threatened to collapse part of a mine as the search for two missing miners passed 41½ hours Saturday -- the time it had taken to find the bodies of 12 miners trapped in the Sago Mine less than three weeks earlier. Nineteen miners had escaped after a conveyor belt caught fire inside the Alma No. 1 mine Thursday evening, but two others never made it out.

MELLVILLE, W.Va. - Fire broke out in an underground coal mine in southern West Virginia late Thursday and two workers were unaccounted for, authorities said. The fire was reported at the Aracoma Coal Co. in Mellville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston. Jeff Gillenwater, a spokesman for the mine's owner, Massey Energy, said the blaze began on a conveyer belt inside the mine and the mine itself was not on fire. "It is not a raging fire. It is a belt line fire that caused smoke in the coal mine," Gillenwater told The Logan Banner newspaper. "There are two individuals...

Reported by: Kennie Bass Videographer: Unknown Web Producer: Dick Canter January 20, 2006 Authorities say a conveyer belt caught fire deep inside the Aracoma Mine in Melville, Logan County. The two miners got separated from a 12-member crew in the smoke-filled mine shaft. Rescue crews say their efforts to put out the fire and increase visibility in the mine are working. The wait gets tougher by the minute for family and friends. Ann Hill, concerned relative: "I'm very relieved, but I'm still very concerned that the two are still in there." Mine safety officials and Governor Manchin work hard to...