Show LEARN LESSON PROM mOM GREAT DISASTER lo leg to toi records cords kept b bv by the logic r le Apartment Iho the wm will f E i in rank as the fI second that this t Country O one 36 mS at W. W Va Va in in miners rs lost Jost I a Lost their lives can ca cah when h U the mine miDO d- d death dall all list list- At Moita Mo Mo- it ita was Penetrated its i of Bf some who ll had hat Probably ty yei bt hours were found fond Res Bes- with helmets and anti re might have saved Ha dt 1 I declared re oxY noW j equipped with cn to k oJ alive mine l in a aV for two V hours bours- The Tho is kl l. l in k two 0 cylinders on fed ferl into th rubber if Carbon CarLon dioxide dioxides rut ut L anks of br i is s caught t. t up Ill P j b a tank talk of oxygen cn j J and an au apparatus for resuscitating tho the victims At the government o station at Pitts Pills hur burg at ut its iti branches at ut Urbana Ill 11 and Knox Knoxville Tonu Tenn GOO 00 miners have been een instructed in a week in the use of the apparatus Tho The three lar largest coal companies in P Pennsylvania have established stations with ox oxygen en equipment equip equip- ment of their own Tn All MI coal companies aro are being ur urged ed by tho government to todo todo o odo do so Tho Thio equipment of miners of Europe with To tho the or oxygen apparatus has helped re reduce uce the death deith e th rate amon among them to OW per cent of or tho those c employed In the United States tho death rate is It is stated authoritatively that the death rate of miners in the tIme United States until 1908 1909 had been increasing faster aster than the production of coal In I 1007 men inca perished in ill mine dis dis- I dis-I asters That year car congress appropriated for educational and experimental I Imen men mental menial nl work amon among miners miners After a 3 ayears ayears years year's work the tho fatalities of 1908 were MOO 4 O. O |