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Show NO SAFETY LAMPS. When Sir Humphrey Davy invented his miner's lamp he did not provide against the folly of every idiot .who persists per-sists in lighting his pipe in a shaft whether from a lamp or a match. Most of of the mine accidents result from the carelessness of the miners themselves, and the worst off it is that it is not always al-ways the reckless poaple who suffer. One man may cause the death of 101). Detroit Free Press. Because no fire damp or gas of any kind had ever been noticed in the Mammoth Mam-moth mine the miners neglected to use safety lamps which were provided by the mining company. The result of this little bit of carelessness was an explosion ex-plosion which killed nearly l."0 men. This terrible disaster is merely one more warning of the dangers of neglecting neg-lecting proper precautions at all times. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The miners, not fearing fire damp, used the common coal digger's lamp instead of tho one which is protected and thus prevented from igniting the gas in the mine. Here seems to be a case of neglect on the part of tho mine authorities. They should have known of the presenco of fire damp before the men went down into what was to be their tomb. Brooklyn Uuion. The surest possible way to find out whealher there is gas in a mine is to send a few hundred men with open lamps into it. If the gas is there it will lind the lamps every time. It may not be soeaay to find the men afterward. There have been so many mine disas tors caused by open lamps that it is surprising 'miners will continue to use them. Buffalo Express. The statute books are burdened with laws to enforce greater carefulness, and the ingeauity of inventors is put to its utmost test to provide better means of of precaution, out neither law norsafety appliance can prevail in the face of the thoiighlessness which characterizes the cheap imported labor common in so many mines. Troy Times. The legislature and mining engineers have for years endeavored to prevent explosions, but so long as that enemy of the miner, the open lamp, is permitted per-mitted to be used there will be danger of a recurrence of yesterday's terrible calamity. Philadelphia Call. No safety lamps were used in the Penusylvauia mine that on Tuesday blew 100 human souls into eternity. The new tariff bill drafted to please Pennsylvania interests does not seem to protect the miners. Cincinnati Enquirer. En-quirer. It appears that the terrible mine explosion ex-plosion at Scottdale, Pa., occurred because be-cause safety lamps were not used. Somebody's" theory that the mine was not liable to "lire damp" cost nearly a hundred lives. St. Louis Republic. This will take rank with one of the worst mining disasters of recent years. Every conceivable precaution should he taken to prevent the recurrence of such wholesale slaughter. Brooklyn Eagle. The naked miner's lamp is making good its title to be considered an agent of whnlesole destruction not second even to the deadly car stove or the fire-trap fire-trap tenement house. Pittsburg Dispatch. |