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Show GOAL MINERS' LIVES Facts Brought Out at Strike Investigation. MORE FATALjTHAN RAILROADS Three And Five-Tenths in Every One Thousand Mine Workers Are Killed Advocates of an Independent Organization Or-ganization for Miners Helpers Are Non-Union Men Diseases That Afflict the Men in Mines Lungs Frequently Become as Black as the Anthracite Itself. sMTimton Ii , Nov STlio economic iind txlotK.cu. fonturcB of llic .iiilt.rnc.te coh4 imltittn uivt tin efTcct ut t mpli-imnt mpli-imnt hi anil obuut the mlma has upon the health of the mln-norkcrs rw the principal nubjeits Imureht before the arbitration ar-bitration tomuiUMon loilu b the alter-neH alter-neH of iuh side of th i-oiilimcrnj While there wan im entire abteiue of oru-ior oru-ior or Irlllinnt cross txamlnutloii whUh marked the procrcdlnnn durlnc the lnnt few dajf the iron eiamlnitlon nerihe lews had the close utuullon of tho com-mlsulomrf com-mlsulomrf nnd Ihcy Ritlmd much Infin mutlon on the lnerut features touched uiKn b the tMthemis I'lUHlCIANH OS Till. 8TAND The nftrrnoon hcbIou ns inirtlculnrly Inter utlns Uvnuse it brought out mtuli expert leHtlmon on the qucitlnu of the health of the minors Three phjHlchms who hae pnetlced In S. rnnton or AMIkex-tiurra AMIkex-tiurra took the tand for the miners and In subsume trstllled thit the oicupfltlon of ii mine worker was ery unhenlthfut and ehortend his life One nhjslcinn, Ur K r J.fiuihnn of Wllktidmrre, who soya he has had a lonjr rxinrlenco anions; the mine wtrkirs, test tiled thav fully n per rent of the men who worked In the mines are anemic Their health Is lcipoerlshed and their uenernl condition Is below nnr thus decreasing their earnlntc iwwrs The principal ills suffered by thn miners, tho lh)slc.nns sail, were miners asthma, theiimallsm and lumbiijo MINKH8 I.lfNGH tlllOW IUACK Dr John O Alallej of hi run ton slid thitt at post mortem he had sicn mlturs luucd as black s anthracite itself and lr lenuhan tcntllled ha had personal know! edge of a man coughing up coil dust nlnu j curs utter he hud left the mines )lo said ho had Information that 11 man hud roiiKhed up coal dust (Ifttcu yeurs after hi hul left the mines It wan als i stated that V ier ctntof thr- miners who n uhed the ue of o ears nru uffllcted with iomn form of rheumutlsm UOHLUTS M2AVtSTIll2 HTAND The cross examination of Ilov Ir relet Roberts, who hail studied the nnthrai Ite coal liulustry and written n book on the subject, ended 1 inlay, and he left the witness wit-ness stand short lj before the noon recess lie ttKan his testimony yesterday Copious Co-pious extracts from hln book were read nnd placed on record Answering u ques tlon protounded bj Judfte (Iray yester-da). yester-da). Or Roberts suld tixlay that u coin-pirlson coin-pirlson of fatulltlert on till the railroads of the United States with thoso In the anthracite, an-thracite, fields show, that 2 5 per lou railroad rail-road emploces a to killed while S " per Km mine employe s are killed The fatalitiesswitchmen, fatali-tiesswitchmen, thmiuen and watchmen lit IW he stated to be 5 3 jier 10u, us Hga.lnt 6.6 per ICO umonc mlmrs and their liborers worklnc Inslln the mines Kx-Coiicrrscman Wnhertnn counsel for the I lend Ins company, read much of the matter peruilnlmr to the lnenc in the ! strike and also read articles wrlttm by Dr Itoberts durlns the roRresn of tho late contest, hi which ho described in stronc lanrdace tht nets nf violence , tn-tlmilatlou tn-tlmilatlou and ItojcottlnK committed dur-Iiir dur-Iiir Unit susiscnslnii lls articles spoke ot some of thfe Sets hh brutal on traces, and he also branded the union s action iu callltiR- out the steam men In Juno an fool hard j " nllIN'INfi 1118 AHIICM'S In explalnlnir his articles, Dr rtoberla suld thut he old not wish to Infer that the orRanizatlou was responsible for ull the lawlessness rommltted 'Ihe doctor said yesterday that niwspiner accounts exacktrated the amount of Hwlesness hi the coal region hut Mr Wolvertou t read-inK read-inK of Ur Itoberts s description of serious acts ot lolence and bojcotllng afforded much umuxement for the uttorne)s nf the coal companies Dr Koberts Rrtcit as his opinion that attempts to hue non-union men form separnte organlwitlons wire InstlKnted by parties opposed to organized labor c'Ancu:8SM-8rt oi mini:rb On Mr olcTlnn attempting to show that the carelessness ot thu miner contributes materially to the datiRcr of his occupation, Chairman Oral Interposed with th remark thut u margin of carelessness Incident to humsn nuturu must 1k tuken Into account when estimating esti-mating the dangcrousness of any hazardous hazard-ous occupation The Intcnst In the commissioners and their Investigation has nut decreased Kach nay hundreds of men line the streets und wateh the arbitrators walk from ths hotel to the courtroom 'I ha commissioners commission-ers continue to hold dilly conferences NOT IN MISSOURI RIVER. Mrs. Sechrest Wanted to Sis, but the Water Was Too Cold. Lincoln, Neb, Nov. 21 Mrs Albert Kechlest of Kunsus Cltv, principal witness wit-ness for tho State In the cusn of Dr. Ixnils Zorn, a dentist, chnrsed with killing her husband, wus found here today to-day at tho home of her parents, nnd admitted that she Ii id been hldlnc theio for the pust five davs Mis heihrest wished to avoid tesltfjlng at the trial, and last Mondav threw a noto pinned to a hut in the river at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, slating that sho had drownid herself and baby I meant to kill mjfcclf and Inbj," she said todav, 'but the water was loo told." |