Show ACCIDENTS IN MINES three times as many men killed in united states as in other countries washington the coal mines of the united states are killing three times as many men per thousand employed as those ot most european countries in the last seventeen years 22 men have given up their lives in the mines of country As many vio lent deaths have occurred in the mines during the last six years as during the preceding eleven years the number 0 fatal accidents each bear is now double that of the year 1895 in 1906 6 men were killed or injured in the mines the killed numbering 2 and the injured 4 these terrible facts have been gleaned by government experts under orders from secretary garfield of the department of the interior to invests gate the nature and extent ot mine accidents |