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Crews searching for the last missing worker in a grain elevator explosion concentrated on a 200-foot section of tunnel Friday, plowing through mounds of grain and chunks of concrete as the search passed its 100th hour.
At least five men died in Monday’s blast. Eleven others were injured and five remained hospitalized Friday, two in critical condition.
The job of the missing worker–oiling the bearings on machinery in the tunnel–may have taken him away from the area where three other bodies were found.
“None of us has the same optimism we had a few days ago,” said Ken Cox, fire division chief. “Time has been our worst enemy.”
