Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-20
THIRTY THOUSAND /
killed IN mines
THAI Is THE TOLL TAKEN IN
lAS1 TIN YEARS.
eleven THOUSAND WIDOWS
How 10 Prevent Disasters l. One Of
Most serious Country Has
to Face.

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thousand miners killed Ia the United
States in the last ten years
Seyen,y-fiye thousand miners IN
jurcd, many Of them manned for life,
In the same period
Eleven thousand widows made by
the deaths OF the miners.
Thirty thousand children left faith
! ,rlssr,
This terrible record represents not
only the accidents in the coal mines
but also the metal mines.
II IS the story Of the tragedy Of
the mines, but not the whole story
II the mines Of the United states in
those ten years had had the same
standards Of safety as in the Euro
pean countries; II the United states
had killed two in every 1000 employ
ed instead Of three, four or five.
Fifteen thousand Of the thirty
thousand American miners killed
/ might be living today
Forty thousand out of the seventy
five thousand injured might have es-
capped injury
Five thousand five hundred widows
might not nave bten "Iaoys'
Iileeh thousand orphan chAdIeh
might SUN nave lathers'
rms is inc "h"'e grim Tragedy OF
the mines epltomizcd II is one OF
lhe most serious PIo'''ihs OIL lHe
country ana the one that brought the
ftoeial bureau oi Mines INTO heIhB'
IL is the great pro"Iem thal lAe b"-
l''" OF NIHes' uhneT 'h' IeauerSH'P ol
!'T' Joseph A homes l's u're-loT' 3
attempting 70 solve.
lhis pioblem Is respohsI"Ie Ior lHe
great hauohaI Mine 9aIe'E belNo"-
Hia'l"h "IlIch is 10 ne Held III f.'ls-
purSh' id' OcloDeF 20 ana ~" ul"eI
the auspices OF the bureau oi Mines,
the American hed Gross Ihe IhI'eu
Mine workers OF America ana inc
Plltsburgh Coal operators Associa-
ton FROM "Oooo 10 oo'oVo miners
supefhtehuehls ana operators are eA-
pected TO be present president Iait
whose active interest IN the Red cross
pathetic touch with the situation in
the mines VIII De present ana witness
the uemonstrauoh ana also tax 10 the
miners. waiter L. flsner' the sec
retary OF the INTERIOR under whose
jurisdiction the Bureau OF Mines
comes, ana who has taken deep In
terest IN the work, VIII also be pres
ent ana address the miners. Cover
nor Iener' OF pennsylvania represent-
ing the largest coal producing state
in the Union, state that mines near
~ as much coal as Great Britain, ana
who has the welfare Of the miners at
heart will also make an address.
The purpose Of the demonstration
is to show to the miners some of the
accomplishments of the Bureau Of
Mines that Will tend toward a re-
duction in the number Of deaths. SO
serious did the Bureau of Mines find
the conditions in the coal mines, it
has not yet found opportunity to pay
any particular attention to the acct
dents in the metal mines and quar-
rics. \ favorable theme with many
NiilNlS VII li4t subject bl dtttutitS III
mines has been that the carelessness
of the miners was the greatest fac
tor in the cause Of deaths. While the
experts of the Bureau of Mines con-
cede that carciessness is faCtor in
the cause Of deaths. While the ex-
perts Of the Bureau of Mines con-
cede that carelessness is a factor n
such accidents, they declare that it is
not nearly as important as it is claim
/. ed to be. They rather believe, and
. they say that their invest cations
have borne this out, that the United
states is still new country in the
mining business and that it has not
yet learned some Of the fundamental
safeguards that have come TO older
; couhu cs through bitter experience.
The experts cite the fact that before
they bcSan their Investigations. very
lew coal operators or miners believed
tnat coal dust in mine could explode
without the presence of gas. The Bu-
reau Of Mines has demonstrated he
yond any possible doubt that hItumin-
Gus coal dust alone is more or q men,
ace To the miner than IRE damp. coal
DUST has been the cause of big ma
JoIlty OF the mysterious explosions IN