The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-12
PEACEFUL INDUSTRIES
War Stays Its Thousands,
peace Ten Thousands.
CDAL MINE DISASTERS
Ths Country He's ocen PartIcuia- "
Stocked by Them ReceI tIy-F,r
Happened Within a Period OF aFew
Weeks, In Which 7tO Lives Were
Lot.

Was Stays is thousan Is and peace
Its TEN thousands. For tie yeaf
1906 tie Interstate Commerce Com
reported the number OF rail
way ACCIDENTS In the United Stat "a
los 324A a total greater than ali
casualtiea of the Boer War. VIII,
lasted thee years. The records II
the Public Service Commission sho
that 1855 People were killed by sire
cars, elevated, steam and suba
trains in INV York City In the thu
months ending November Goth, - -.
and that 50t more We're seriously IA.
jured These, figures have attract /
mucl attention but they do not pro
that the railiDa s are sinners abs
all the industrial agencies o. Ia
country; on the contrary, there an
many more accidents In factories a.
In the building trades 0an on thu
railroads, but tAeir vast total is nj
appreciated because ii is the duty o.
the statistician 10 record them aecu'
rately. Only one State, New YorI
has male any serious attic npt TO
gather accurate figures relating TO
the loss of life by Industrial ae'i.
dents, On the basis of report u
the commissioner Of labor, made !
number OF years ago, It Is computed
that the Industrial accident rate N
tie factories OF New York Stat
reaches the appalling figures OF Al
to LOCO, and that more than 232 90
factory employees are killed or in1ur" !
every year In the United States. Min
ing and railway casualties bring M
total of slaughter. mutilation, an I
other injuries up 20 more than 524''
600 cases annually record which
makes that of any twelvemonth .
the history of war pale into ins's'
uifcance. The entire losses, in kill
ed and wounded In the Russo-Japan
ese War were 1886.
The country he's been particularly
shocked of late by the succession d
coal mine disasters-Four within a
period of a few weeks--in whlct
about seven hundred ives were lost
and :he recent eXactlon of this ireal'
full j. ath-tol lends special In
terest to the report on coal-mine az
cidents which has Just been issne ~
the United States Geological Survey
This states that in the year 1901
hearty seven thousand men We're Kill
ed or injured in the coal mines OF
the United States, and that the NUN
Der of mine explosions has been
steadily increasing. This increas'
is 81. Id TO be due in part to the lael
of prol erly enfOrcible safety regula
tons, which are insisted upon In Ed
rLpean countries, particularly IN
France. where the accident death ratl
among coal-miners, is less than on
TO every thousand employed; thu
American ratio is 3 IL to 1000, be-
ing three and one-half times that II
Belgium and higher than that of eth
| er Prussia or Great Britain, Oi
of the devices employed In Germo'
mines for the rescue Of miners causn'
| in suffocating gases consists of ~
air-tight mask fitting over eyes, 'os'
and mouth and connected by ubef
with reservoirs of oxygen.
The amelloration of the horrors az
peace should be regarded aseqhaliy
| important with the amelioruoh d
| the horrors of war. SOM loreiS
| philanthropists view It In ms llght
and not only have they irheed en-
ployers and the governmels OF thei
| respective countries TO axe acu9'
resulting IN the installLion of pro
tective devices of man soFts' oh
| they have establishedseNefaI III Is
Gums In which the M tih'pfoVea -
these devices are Ike on eAhioi'ioh
for tho heneft ofemployers an
work people. A si'lHI Norh W.
hoor ,rdortokan tthis country Dy
tho American Muam OF Safety De-
vices and Industri hyslene' "hlel
,,,ot,,,oirs narAnent free exhihi.
,io, a, M 2a,West Thirty ninth
street Now yor where the manage
roont is Jamortating to employers
,ho eaonomv ! say nothing of thf
hi9bar consifations--of insurlns
tho safety ofieir work-people.
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proefion of Gold.