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Show BBffflTafflBBfP MANY KILLED IN MINES. Over Two Thousand Men Gavr Up Their Lives In IMti. Philadelphia The total number of men killed while mining coal In the United Stales during IDOH aciorUng lo statistic gathered by the grol'ig leal survey was 1.061. The niimbi r of wiirknien reielvlng Injuries In this i IndiKtn more nr Ipsa serious but imt I rut il wii-i 4 71 during the same pi rl.i'l The il. uih rate per thousand of Wnii M.n w i I nr. In other words of 1 1 n I nun i .ml miners over three wi" ' 'I I mid more than six serl 1 ' i d In accidents al the coal I lit" lo ii heavy toll when It Is 1 I iliu' Kngland'a death rate i l oi ., i,,, miners during laat year t ' , iTv . in Kvery ll0,3S3 ton of cinl n, in i in this country laat year c ' i ii. life Tli- t nncipii causes of death were f I. , r i .iii.i roal, and explosions, i ii ii due to the former num ' id I On i-.li nnd dust explosions. . i ) i w i. r i iplnslnns, 0, mlaeel-Ivi mlaeel-Ivi ; . The muni,, i of men killed In 1'enn syivanl.i num during 10A was: An liraclte 'iT, Idiiimlnoiia, 417. total. 10;i or more Umn half of llio num her killed In the 20 stale nnd terrl lories In which coal was mined Hut :'cnnlvunln piodmcd more coal than all the oilier state and the tcrrltorlot combined, During tho same period tho number of persons Injured In nrcldeatt In Pennsylvania mine was: Anthracite, 1.312, bituminous, 1,1(0; total, 2,372 Of thoso killed In Pennsylvania mines E83 left widows nnd 1,291 children were made fatherless. Pennsylvania'! death ralo per 1,000 minora was. An thraclte, 3.43; bituminous, 3.14. Tho stntn which mado tho lowest record In tho iliVath rato per 1,000 for 190S was Maryland, with 1 09, Colo rado had tho highest death rate, 7.71 per 1.000; West Virginia, second, with CUT. |
