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Show To Fight Fire In Mlnet. For fighting Are in Its anthracite coal mines a chemical lire' engine is now being useci. by a company in Pennsylvania. This engine is built on a truck which can run upon tracks throughout tho mine. When an alarm of flro is sounded tho englno Is attached at-tached to nn electric locomotive and rushed to tho scene of trouble nt a high speed. Water played upon n .coal flro Is almost Instuntly converted convert-ed into steam, which further disintegrates, disin-tegrates, forming n gas so suffocating that It drives nway tho men fighting tho flro. Who flameH which shoot' out when water strikes tho ,hot coal often set ablaze pockota of gas in tho celling. When a chemical englno plays upon burning coal tho heavy gases evolved cling to tho floor and smother the blnzo by excluding tho air. Men nro not annoyed by tho fumes nnd can stay closo onoitgh to do offecttve work. |