Deseret Evening News | 1909-01-18 | Page 8 | Year 1908 Holds Record for Mine Horrors

YEAR 1908 HOLDS BOLDS RECORD FOR MINE HORRORS burR Jill Jen year r 1905 marked by more mine horrors by sore learn 1068 ot of life under ground then easy any other In And the ToOer 1908 1905 ly weeks old ap It Ie I going after 1905 record Only J t Tue d a hundred Ih lives were lost In en an In a model mine mIn neer W V Va and on th the Sun Sunda sunday da day beto before death exacted another heAvy toll In t the name mine at Ill raid Id a engineer toda today b baa not DOt yet oled the Ihl ol of p the thu formation of gas We f three kind of mitts 88 gases the firedamp afterdamp and ani white damp i im thu only otis one or of the trio that is III explosive It III I It a gU ga given oft off b by under the nce of the hoot heat of the earth When Davy Invented th miner safety lamp It thought that all 1111 danKer danger ot of mIne wac over The lamp ha the Ikuno surrounded with f a tureen n dote not the J passage of Df the lame flame the screens burn bum out after tong Jong an and miners grow careless too the minor will tamp his bill or bat with paper Instead or of clay The It III that a flame Ob u up and noo If tile there bt be all any gas gall an III is