| Show CHANCE FOR ANOTHER COALL MINE DISASTER R ily staff stiff reporter state mine inspector petitt 4 ha has recently made an examina tron of iho the coal mines in this county anti ant it cannot be said that the report ia is all favorable ac cord cording i nc to the report many tices cices are aro carried on which aro are far from safe sonia of the con I 1 editions are not recording to the law laws which govern these matters rs 4 for the protection of the miners mine and those employed in the miner f t 4 44 hf H 4 t returns from a rent report I 1 L state mina lire in belur tor petitt are inter esting in it he baates that he fount men carrying full boxed of giant cara into the mine when there is 9 a la law baking it tann an offense working in ill cham bers when the ventilation la b id td li it places where explosive gas is 13 ts shaping from rom the workings where he be ling ia Is lent and the dan dangers ors of an explosion almont inevitable lie ile complains that miners are tain tamping ping their charges with slack ceal coal even chere they arc are furnished other r later la in tha abu vanola reparto sho v that the companies have also been lax that POO poor r oil has been furnished that fire men men forem n and others whose particular business li to sec see that working conditions are looked after and the greatest safety possible pos sibe provided are ara kept buy at other work ork and only the threat of prosecution brines brings them to time about nine yeura years ago to be correct vay lar 1503 a party of men winded their wy along the streets street of belo field on their w ay to work n the coal mine it was juat just two years eine sm e the famous fight right in ill Ni manilla anilla bay and there was as to be a celear tion of dwey day and all looked forward 0 to o having a good time that evening As the workers pissed along the street no thought occupied their minds except the enjoy ment that was to be thi feature of the evening the celebration of dewey day the melt and boys want went to work with joy in their hearts laughter ui their lips and anti began their daily labois i suddenly there was a slight tremor of the ground a sharp explosion and tien ti en women and children running dir distractedly tract edly toward the mouth of tr tt a e mine terror terr orin in their eyes despair in their hearts the state was shocked by tho the news the nation and it might be said the whole civilized world felt the shock two hundred men wiped out of exist anco ance ina in a breath one hundred and eighty seven families left without the bread glnn all because the mine was full of aust sri er 1 an explosion of 0 giant powder set it on ore fire and caused an in explosion and from time to time articles are published concerning just such calamities curing oc wh sherem erect thero there ia Is a coal mine or one whee e hydrocarbons hydro carbons ara are being taken from the ground such a calamity naturally baures all to inflect and it is found that men realizing the danytro dang tro persist in work ing are arg taking chances which they know are pre certain to result in just such catastrophes it si hardly right to expose the work men to dangers that can bs ba avoided it ta Is not to their interest to do so A an accident is much more costly tharl efforts at prevention although to tile them n it may be only a business proposition taking a lung long chance ia Is too revly but whit what about the workman work manT lie ile knows the danger and there la Is nothing to compel him to face risks at t beat best mining is precarious in ti the a dangers there is more risk than thai in the the afe aberago rago o occupations cupa why should hu bo increase in creaso hie his risks what la Is there in it to malle him take tho the long chance nothing whatever men work under labs of rr I 1 which it t is their duty to re renoe noe nore an ani I 1 which foremen insist on having removed but they think it will tick stick this shift let it go 1 hey curry carry powder and cape caps fn quantities that may cause disaster they lau lauah vh when you call their alan itt n tion to tho the facts in short it sterns that facing danger at all the human being becomes careless and having taken chances set often Js is wit ling alln to take it again and the result a destruction of property injury and death to all within reach |
