The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-12
PEACEFUL INDUSTRIES
War Stays It's Thousands,
Peace Ten Thousands.
COAL MINE DISASTERS
The Country Hos rccn Particularly
Shocked by Them ReceI tIy--F>Ir
Happened Within Period OF Few
Weeks, in Which 1L0 Lives Were
Lost.

War Stays is Thousands AMI peace
Its ten thousands. For the year
1906 the Interstate Commerce Com
mission reported the number of rail-
I way accidents in the United Staff -
l0s 324-a total greater than all
casualties of the Boer War, VIII, 4
lasted three years. The records II
the Public Service Commission shJ
that 1865 people were killed by sire
cars, elevated, steam and suba -
trains In New York City In the tn
months ending November 30th, 1919.
and that 500 more were seriously IA
Jured These figures have attract
much attention but they do not prD
that the railfoa Is are sinners abb
all the industrial agencies o. Ia
country; on the contrary, there an
many more accidents in factories ~.
In the building trades tfan Oh TIN
railroads, but their vast total is nj
appreciated because il Is the dutg O.
the statistician to record them accu.
rately Only one State, New YorI
has ma lie any serious attic .npt to
gather accurate figures relating to
the loss OF life by Industrial ae"i-
dents. On the oasis OF a report Il
the commi = oner of labor, made !
number of years ago, t Is computed
that the industrial accident rate N
tie factories of New York Stat
reaches the appalling fguFes of A
to 1000. and that more thaS 232,0J1
factory employees are k lledor inturrl
every year in the United States Min.
ing and railway ,asuLlttes bring his
total OF slaugh err, mut1ation, an
other injuries up 10 more than 524,-
000 cases annual'y---a record which
makes that of any twelvemonth u
the history of sar pale into insig.
nilcance The entire losses In kill
ed and wounded IN the Russo-Japsn.
csc War were 1856.
The country has been particularly
shocked of late b. the succession u
coal nine disasters -Four within a
period of few weeks-in whlHl
about seven hundred ives were lost;
and the recent exactlon of this dre1i.
full dcath-toll lends special In
terest to the report on coal-mifie nc
cidents which has just been issued b3
the United States Geological Survey
This states that in the year 1901
hearty seven thousand men were Kill.
ed Or injured in the coal mines OF
the United States, and that the mum,
DO
steadily increasing. This increas'
Is sid to be due in part to the lac
OF prop erly enforcible safety regula
lions, which are Insisted upon In En-
rLpean countries. particularly ir
France, where the accident death-rati
among coal-mIners, is less than on
to every thousand employ ed. thu
American ratio is 8 ID to 900 b.
ing three and one-half times that n
Belgium and higher than that of eth
err Prussia or Great Britain. Ol'
OF the devices employed in Germo,
mines for the rescue Of miners caugri
in suffocating gases consists of ~
air-tight mask fitting over eyes. nos,
and mouth and connected by tubes
with reservoirs OF oxygen.
The amelioratiOn of the horrors ol
peace should be regarded as equally
important with the amelioration 81
the horrors of war. Some foreig
philanthropists view it in this llgAt
and not only have they induced en-
ployers and the governments of th1'r
respective countries TO take actiJi
resulting in the installation of pro
tectiye devices of many sorts, bat
they have established several m Is.
Gums in which the mos improved .;
these devices are kept on exhibition
for the benefit OF employers an
work people similar work hst
been undertaken in this country by
the American Museum of Safety De-
vices and Industrial Hygiene, which
maintains permanent free exhihi'
ton al No. 231 West Thirty-nint1
Street. New York, where the manage
ment is demonstrating to employers
the economy-to say nothing OF thi
higher consderatlons-of fnsurlns
the safety of their work-people.
Production of Gold.