Show VY DEATH TOll IN COAl MINE DISASTERS tall II Not Specified in Report Re Re- port of Director of the 1 Bureau S I WASHINGTON ASHI March 21 The The year 3 was Vas nora fatal for tor coal conI miners In p e United States state than tho the preceding ve months month A report today the tilo the bureau ot of mines showed showed an Inease Inias inesso in- in ease esso of fatalities of f over o 1912 and deaths for every working day In InV V if year In tho army anny of under under- und workers 2785 perished a fatality to te of S 82 In every 1000 men raon employed compared with 7 In 1312 I C Six thou thousand more m mon men n were were- employed d 1913 1313 and ond tho the Increase In s' s i between thirty tr million and forty milSon mU- mU Son Ion loi toa Dr Joseph A A. Holmes Holme director of U the tho e I bureau In commenting upon the record for or 01 tho year saId raid I We can cm find little comfort In tho the Suggestion UIe that this Increase may In part be e accounted for by the occurrence durn dur- dur Sn n ngo 1 13 of ot four largo large mine explosions lons TM Th J statistics show an nn Increase In fatalities fatall fatall- ties tics during 1913 1013 from all tho the underground round causes causee except mine fires tires and ond surface act ac- ac t t Th rh The states In 10 which the greatest t. t number num nuns ber of or deaths leathis occurred were I 1227 1221 West Virginia VIn NeW Ness Mexico 27 Ohio Illinois Alabama Ala Ala- bama and Colorado 10 I |