Show CING CU MINE 01 1111 11 IN rl 11 II 01 biml bilm 1 ich 1 ali lilli lioi if kiil mimi N i mild s and it 1 Kii ItI itil IId dili midi tion that lri of mill 4 11 the department of the interior la 13 doing a commendable labor in at it tempting to reduce the mino acci acel dints in the united d states on oc oe tobar iotti a it great national mine safety demonstration Is I 1 to be held in pa ila under thu the atis ples of the tho bureau of mines these dem onster irions and investigations al at ready have accomplished much anil and 1 alo I 1 c promise of caving saving thousands of coal tire now being killed at the rate of ten ii it daiy ind rid double that number are being injured each fach day ten children are made fatherless to 10 over ov eromo Lome this terrible record of death it direful study of mine accidents Is 1 being made be bc ore these investigations tre begun very few coal operators or miners believed that coal lust in a mine could explode without the tile presence of gas according to a R statement from the bureau of mines it has been demonstrated beyond any pos possible doubt that bituminous coal dust alone is more of a menace to 10 the miner than tire fire damp lamp coal dust baa has been the cause of a big majority of the mysterious explosions da plo in coal mine mines within the last tew few years and has caused great losa loss of life at bruceton pa twelve miles from there will be an actual explosion of vf coal dust in the experimental mine belonging to the bureau the expert experts will have the conditions that are to be found in n some of the mines of tho united brates today and they aill use black powder poder which Is strongly urged against in dangerous mines in Is known among miners ns as the I 1 blow shot will viii bo be produced A I 1 brownout blown out ahot Is when the charge of powder blows out of the hole and anti into the mine instead of breaking the coal it la Is the cause of most explosions tor for the flame from the powder ignites the firedamp or the coal duat dust there will be no one in the mine at the time the shot will be fired by electricity from front the outside there will be a second explosion of coil dust this time tor for the benefit of the multitude A temporary steel gallery will be erected upon the playing field and the coil dust will be placed therein A charge of explosives will be fired into the dust and the explosion will follow the bureau ot of mines has at the present time in ue various coal fields seven fully equipped rescue cars manned by expert rescuers who have been carefully trained in the use of the oxygen helmet this helmet permit artificial breathing in poisonous noua atmosphere for a pe lod of wo hours equipped with ith one of thebe helmets a rescuer c can enter a mine immediately fol following loing an explosion and while the mine is still filled with deadly fire damp the rescuers are thus able to find miners who have been overcome by the poisonous gases and bring them to the surface be fore they die A number of lives have bf been en saved ay y these helmet men the rescuers in addition have been trained in first aid to the injured work and carry the ne C S vry equipment including a wonderful on piece of apparatus an ox ge ken reviving outfit that works auto pumping the poisonous bases 0 out ut of the lungs of in an as ed miner and tilling filling the lunga lungs with ith oxygen this app apparatus aratus has brought apparently dead miners bick to life it has in several in at evinces inces resuscitated miners who had ben b en given up tor for doad dead n expert corps will dive un an exhibition hibi tion of rescue work immell immediately ettely following the coil dust explosion in the gallery tho the reb revelers eLers will rush into tho the smoke filled gallery and bring out the supposed victims demonstrations with tho ox oxygen reviving apparatus and first aid will follow the i the teams from the coal mines will all show sho how hou rapidly and ac they cm cin work in an emergency y there will bo be a contest in the tile bandaging of dangerous huun and broken limbs the minor miners will how to staunch the flo flow of blood from frow a it severed irtely how thoy splint the tie body for a compound fracture of tho the thigh and he how the wash a it wound to prevent blood polso poisoning ning in it statement issued b the tile bureau of mines this tribute la Is paid to the hershm of the tile aitner I 1 no one ever saw a miner r hesitate to go b back bick ick to the rescue of a wounded miner no matter chat happened in the mine the re real reil il story of the tragedy of the mines lq 1 one filled with ith unparalleled her heroism olani the de death deith ith loll 1011 of rescuers in the last few ye years irs attests eloquently eloquent Iv to this no miner can think of the terrible disasters at hanna N yo and cherry ills without a it tear for the heroes who ho lost their lives in attempting to save sae others there were ere but sixteen miners in the mine at hanna ahon the explosion occurred forty volunteers went down to bring them out and a second explosion killed every one in the mine including one of the state mine inspector inspectors and all the superintendents of mines from front the ity every i nan iian ian in authority at that mining tarup lost his life in that second explosion at cherry it will III bo be remembered hoy bor twelve men went down don the shaft to the rescue of the men entombed in the burning mine when the cage finally came up the rescuers wore were piled up dead on it at the Ian pancoast coast disaster in pennsylvania it will be recalled that one of the bureau of mines trained rescuers lost his tits life while wearing the oxygen helmet at the time some said that the helmet had proved a failure but this nas not the truth the rescuers death was caused by the zeal in his efforts to save life we lie ile worked harder in the helmet than he ought to have done and hb died from over exertion just like some athletes have done lone when hen they attempted a superhuman endea endeavor vur the bureau of mines rescuer wab nar a practical miner who had hail spent yeara years underground and he was imbued with nith that heroic that seems to ch characterize all men who chare phare uncommon danberg |