The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-31
New Mines Bureau InaugurateS
Policy of Teaching Art
of Rescue.
WILL PREVENT COAL
NINE DISASTERS
One Group Will Come to Utah
and Wyoming in Near
Future.

| WASHINGTON. D. G., Oct. ga !lfe
| saving service for the rescue Of miners
! in time of disaster is about TO he in
augurated by tho United states bureau OF
mines. Six specially constructed cars,
fully manned by corps OF miners
| trained IN rescue work and equipped with
| the latest rescue apparatus and tlrsf ald
to the injured appliances. will within
| few days be located in the midst OF the
great coal districts in different parts o'
| the country. These cars will be ready
at moments notice to proceed TO the
scene of a disaster, where the rescue
corps, in cooperation with The state min
! ing officials, Will do everything possible
TO save entombed miners.
| This is the first imT ortant step taken
by the new bureau of mines in lis ct-
| forts 10 reduce the appalling loss OF life
In American coal mines.
| During tho year 1909 there were 2il.
miners killed in tho coal mines and 1912
| injured. In the coal and the metal mines
! 1T is estimated that 5000 mon were killed
and 10000 were injured in 1902. For
every loon men employed, from three -
| five men are killed each year in the mines
| OF the United States. In foreign coun-
tries. from ono 10 two arr killed in eocb
1000 men employed, In those European
countries where the deaths arc least per
1000 men employed. rescue apparatus has
been in use for some time, and it Is With
Tho hone that European conditions can
be appros sched that the rescue apparatus
Is being introduced here.
The saving Of human life viii he the
emergency feature Of a general campaign
of educational work among the miners,
the rescue apparatus but also the proper
way to take caro- or an injured miner.
There will also be lectures on many
phases of The mining problem looking
u =
tie excuse for the miner not benefitrg
himself. for the mine rescue cars VIII
go 10 The miner in his own town or camp.
Each car has been given n specified ter
rtory and II is expected that every min
ing community Of any Importance will bc
visited. a mining engineer and a sur
company each car and deliver illus
trated lectures on the use Of explosives.
electrical equipment, fire prevention,
sanitation and first aid surgical treat
ment. These lectures will be given in
the cars wherever suitable meeting
place cannot be procured. The cars VIII
remain long enough at each place so
that miners may go through the training
Of the foreman OF the car, practical
miner. Every effort will he made 10 en-
courage the miners 10 form rescue corps
al the mines where they arc employed
and to have the operators equip them
with. rescue appa ratus.
Tho cars will each contain eight So
gen in tanks, ono dozen safety lamps
one field telephone with 1000 feet OF wire
resucitatng outfits and n small outfit for
use in demonstration and actual prac-
ttce Of equipment relating 10 first aid to-
tho injured In connection with mine ac-
cidents. One end Of the cars will he fitted
UP as an alright room TO be used In
training the men in the use OF tho So
called oxygen helmets This room Will be
filled with noxioUs fumes and the miners
wearing the helmets. VIII remain inside
for Two hours in an atmosphere that
arc the helmets that porni, one to enter
a mine Immediately following an explo-
sion. while it is still filled with poison
ous gases. and breathe artiflcally The
absence Of the helmets at great catas-
trophies in the United States has. il is
believed. resulted in n greater loss OF
life than necessary. Frequently miners
who have not suffered physical injury
by an explosion have been entombed in
the mine to die slowly from the inhaIa-
ton Of the poisonous gases. Had IL been
possible to reach these men within few
hours their lives might have been saved
The helmets proved their worth at tie
ill-fated Cherry mine. when the rescuers
succeeded In getting twenty men out alive
after they had been entombed seven
days In a number Of other instances
miners have been saved from terrible
deaths by the prompt arrival Of the he'll
Car No. ]. which will be in charge of
Charles Enzian, mining engineer. Will
leave Pittshurg. Pa. the morning OF Oc-
tober 81. for Monongahela City. Pa.
where the first demonstration Of rescue
apparatus and lecture will be given This
car Will then visit Mariana, Brownsville.
gn!ontown. Conneilsyillee; scoltdalc. In
diana, Johnstown. Windber. South Fork
Portage, Cresson, Punxsutawney. Clear
field Philipsburg and State College
Car No: is expected TO reach the
bureau of mines rescue station at I-r-
baua, Ill! November !. where II Will be
fully equipped with rescue and other an
paratus and placed In charge Of r. Y.
and ]. NJ. Webb! rs trainer in miner res
cue work. DIR, j. NJ. Shields of the
American Red Cross society will be pres
ent and there will be a miner skilled in
hospital coros work and first aid TO the
Injured. After remaining In Urbana for
several davs. the viii proceed 10
Danyilc Ill: Terrn Hautc Ind. and ON
through southern Indiana 20 Evansville
Lectures and demonstrations Will be given
at each stopping place. The car will
stop a few days or n week at each min
ing town where tho miners will be
trained without cost In rescue work The
men who take the full course OF jnstrI,c-
ton In mino rescue and first aid worI,
A record VIII be kept of these men as
being available for emergency calls I'm
the event ot disaster
Four other cars similarly equipped will
mines within few davs. They will make
their headquarters al Rock Springs. Wyo.;
Billings, Mont; Salt Lake City Utah
and Knoxville. Tenn These cars Will
travel through the mining territory In
their districts, the mining engineers Civ
ing lectures ON greater safety in mining
the Red Cross representatives rivjnc
demonstrations in first aid 10 the in
jured. and the rescue corps men training
the miners In the use of the oxygen
helmets.