At risk from more landslides in the area, a massive rescue effort involving more than 3000 people was underway, Xinhua news agency reported.
State Councillor Wang Yong, who is leading work at the site, demanded all-out efforts to find the missing, treat the injured and minimise casualties.
The government has sent some 3,000 rescuers, along with heavy digging equipment, and has promised to do all it can to look for survivors.
Despite the danger of more landslides, Xinhua reports, the search operation involves more than 3000 people.
In an interview with the publication on Saturday, local publicity department officials described the disaster site as compact, making it hard to expand the scale of the rescue operation.
Rescuers found a droopy-eyed white dog on the rubble, apparently looking for its owner, according to state broadcaster CGTN.
In 1933, 6,800 people died in landslides triggered by an quake and 2,500 more were killed when one of the landslides caused a dam to fail. Xinhua quoted the government of Sichuan province, where the town is located, as saying 141 people were missing.
Xu also cleared up worries that some tourists might be among the buried as the village is in a tourist site.
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Xinmo residents were farmers who grew corn, peppercorn and potatoes, she said, though some had opened guest houses for tourists.
The mountain rock slip engulfed more than 40 homes and a hotel in the village of Xinmo in Maoxian county, Sichuan Province, around 6am local time on Saturday.
Heavy rain caused the side of the mountain to collapse onto the riverside village in the early morning, according to local authorities. Some of it slid from as high as a mile. Ten people have been confirmed dead.
A three-year-old child from the family remains buried. We rushed out and saw massive smoke.
For one couple, getting up to change their infant son's nappy may have saved their lives. "The entire village, with dozens of families, was flattened", he said, with a bandage around his head.
Another 110 people living nearby in another part of the village were being evacuated to a township school last night, fearing there might be rain and secondary disasters.
"Every single family has been impacted by the landslide, it's disgusting", said Sun Danxian, from a neighbouring village who was walking through the site.
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