| Show II Uncle Sams Newest ewest Life Saving Service I How the Government Is Preparing Prep ring to Prevent Such II Horror Hereafter Here fter as the Cherry Coal Co l Mine Disaster I ACCORDING CORDING to the opinions of or experts connected with the tho rescue corps of ot the United States geological survey Un Uncle clo cle Sams newest life saving service only a few Cow dollars worth of or stale hay hayand hayand hayand and the expenditure of a few cubic feet of or oxygen Instead of or the precious lives lIes j of or 2 O 0 miners would have been the tho sum total of or loss at tho the recent mine disaster r in Cherry lit IlL had a party part of ot otmen men equipped with helmets and oxygen tanks been sent down Into tho the mine shortly after a miners lamp sot fire 1110 to toome tome ome hay As It was twenty men were laved V after a n weeks suffering ButTering In the theair theair air nil fouled mine chambers 1 oy by the use of ot I the breathing apparatus which the i I government Is seeking to introduce at every ever mine in the tho United States I I The saving savin of or these twenty lives is a 1 I practical Illustration of ot the tho efficiency of or tho the new dew Idea In mine rescue work worl Experiments on an exhaustive scale aro are being carried on by tho the geological survey at a station recently established I at It Is 15 the purpose of or the government to open stations for tor In Instruction InI In such sueh work at or near tho the I greater centers of mine accidents I I throughout the tho country Already there Is a station at tho the University of ot 1111 1 I nois In tho the town of ot Champaign which Is 15 intended for the protection of oC miners In Illinois Indiana Michigan Iowa 1 northern Missouri and western Ken Ien Kentucky tucky At Kno Tenn another station covers Alabama Tennessee j Virginia eastern ea Kentucky Georgia and southern West Virginia Director George Otis Smith of ot the tine I geological survey in a recent bulletin indicates that stations will bo I I lisp Seed soo at Raton N M to take caro care lot of New Mexico Colorado Colora o southern Utah Wyoming and Nevada at Salt t I Lake Lako City CIl central for tho the Utah fields and accessible to Montana and Wash Tash I and near South McAlester Okla to take caro care of ot the coal oal fluids fields i of oC Oklahoma Arkansas southwestern i I i i Missouri and southeastern Kansas I J I The promise of or this tills protection Is hailed with joy by every miner and every miners wife and children while tho compassionate public shuddering at tho the horrors of ot the tho underground I breathes moro more easily at the tine prospect 1 i als w 1 Ra c cY Y fkr V Vj j j r V 1 r v I r ri t r I j f i r s fr r t t i ir I t I I 1 l r 4 l y L i wry j y t 5 ar art t I I 1 I V 4 J I II III IIII I I 1 i 11 II l ta 4 x w I INTERIOR OF ROOM IN WHICH MINERS ARE TRAINED IN RESCUE WORK t 1 r b I t I that all miners temporarily Imprisoned In gas poisoned chambers may be en enabled enabled enabled to breathe life lite sustaining oxygen until they can be bo brought to the sur surface faco face by the tho heroes of this hew rescue work The rho rescue corps doubtless will take Its place In popular approval alongside the United States life lifo saving service which rescues thousands every year from death by shipwreck The apparatus employed by the mine rescuers rescuer is similar to that worn woin by deep sea divers Over tho the head is placed a helmet helmel air airtight tight and upon his back baele the rescuer carries a n tank containing con containing containing enough oxygen to last him two or three hours A tube carries the tho oxygen into the helmet Tho The Impurities ties tics In tho the breath as it is expelled are absorbed by b a small quantity of po potassium potassium hydroxide carried In t a sepa separate separate rate tank tan The nitrogen en in tho tine air all re remaining In the helmet after tho the rescuer puts it on above ground serves to dl di dilute lute the oxygen o gen sufficiently Wearing this tills apparatus the tho rescuer can cnn nass ilass without peril through dense denso smoke fire damp natural gas bas coal dust dusti or the tine deadly dead I black damp which killed so many of the tho miners at Cherry ie Each rescuer e carries an auz l extra tank of or oxygen for the resuscitation of ot victims victim A mouthpiece Is fitted over oer the tho taco face of or ortho tho the man who trim Is overcome by b foul air all of any an kind A trained man induces artificial respiration by compelling tho the body bod movements employed in the case caso of oC a drowning person and the tho exhilarating exhilarating rating oxygen passes Into tho the lungs revivifying the victim It is tho the object of or the tine government not only to train men for tor this dais rescue work at nt the tune several stations now In operation and to bo be established but also to Instruct groups of or miners at tho tine various mine centers so that there will willbo willbo willbe bo be always above aboe ground some men who can put on the tho life Ufe saving apparatus and descend to the rescue of ot their comrades at a moments notice Several Sev Several Several eral miners at Cherry who had llad but a afew afew afew few hours Instruction in tho the use of or ortho tho the apparatus went down and helped to rescue the twenty survivors Tune The rescue corps of tho the United States geological survey is of ot very veI recent origin Congress appropriated in ht July 1008 1908 for the Investigation of or orthe tine the causes of mine disasters and the formulation of remedies Out of ot that appropriation grow the rescue corps now only In the Infancy of ot Its effi efficiency efficiency I clency Seven hundred lives were lost through explosions In four coal mines In December 1907 1307 Tho agitation fol following following lowing these catastrophes led to tho the establishment of ot tho the governments rescue service A few tew figures will show the tho Impera Imperative ti tive Uve ve demand for such auch a work In 1306 1906 according ac to geological survey statis statistics statistics tics 2061 coal miners miner were killed and were Injured The record for 1907 was killed and In ln Injured InI I In 1308 1908 tho the deaths were 2450 I WILLIAM WILLIA iI r HENDERSON |
