The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-16

From the Anthracite Monitor.
We have received the following interest
ing data with reference to the business Of
mining Goa IN the Wilkesbarre or Wyom-
ing region from our friend, 7. NJ. Williams
Mine Inspector
Casualties during 1S71-Number of per
sons killed, SO leaving widows, "a; or
phans, 80
Persons Injured or non-fatal accidents,
80.
Killed BY 6re-damp, J injured 81 kill
ed by fall OF rock, 2; injured IL killed BY
fall Of coal, ii /; injured Is; killed by fall
ing down shaft, 2 injured l burnt by
gunpowder, I; injured 8 killed by mis-
cellaneous underground, 4; injured II (;
killed by falling under mine cars, 6 in
jured 9 killed above ground, 6; injured 8;
killed at West Pittston, 90. Total killed,
50 total injured, 80.
Coal mined tri1e over 5000. 900 (three
milhons) of tons.
Surface openings &c.-Breakers 81
shafts, 81 slopes, 43 drifts and tunnels,
SO, including 10 local collieries and IA new
places % shafts, 3 slopes, l tunnel and one
shaft reopening) ventilated by "a fans, di-
ameter from 10 to 81 feet. Largest venti-
Iation produced, 1880 cubic feet per
minute, given by ten fans on the one shaft,
10 feet diameter each.
IL furnaces, 10 steam Jets and exhausts.
~ places ventilated by natural ventilation.
The largest by natural ventilation is II 600
cubic feet per minute.
These above enumerated are exclusive
Of the 10 local colieries and IA new places
opening.
/ have also 20 inside self-acting places,
and IL inside slopes worked by steam pow
er.
Power used in and around the mines is
$40 mules inside 200 outside.
Engines, 40, with pumping power Of 2, 365
horse power I; fan engines 20, of $50 horse
power breaker and hosting engines 1873,
1924, exclusive of all the steam pumps and
9 locomotives.
Men and boys employed-Men inside
5,6O1 boys inside, 779. Total number in
side, 6, 480. Outside men, 1,730 outside
boys, 1,760. Total number outside, 8, 400.
Total number Of men and boys in and
around the mines, 1910, out of which there
are only 2,27O actual miners cutting coal.
DEATH IN THE MINEs.-The statistics Of
the Anthracite coal regions for the year
1871 present frightful record of casualties
No less than 272 men were killed outright,
and 622 injured by acciuents during the
year. These men left 200 widows, and be-
tween 500 and 600 orphan children.
ACCORDING to recent report of the COM
missioner of mining industry there are in
California, 50,3l0 Cinnamon, 14,377 of
whom arrived during 1870. In the South
ern States there are S67, in the Middle and
Eastern 178, and in the Territories Z, 075.
The estimate Of the number in the New
England and Middle States is certainly in
correct, there being almost, if not fully, the
number given in New York city alone.
SERIOUS MINING AcCIDENf.-On Thurs
day forenoon last, Solomon D. Snyder, aged
about As years, and his son, Murty, aged
Is years, while at work mining in the La
Sale shaft, were badly injured by the fall
ing of heavy mass Of the roof of their
room. The father had his leg broken below
the knee and his back very seriously injured.
The boy had his hip and leg badly bruised
and sprained. At the time we saw them
Thursday afternoon-the father was in q
very critical condition. La Sale Press. y