The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1911-07-06
LIFE SAVING DEMONSTRATION
Miners Will Be Shown First Aid and
Reserve Work at Meeting in
Pittsburg, Pa.

Washington July Sin line with it's effort to reduce the num-
Der Of deaths the coal the United States the bureau
will hold rational miners life saving demonstration Saturday,
September M in Arsenal park Tttsg Pa President Taft secrc-
ary the Interior Fisher and Dr. Joseph Holmes director Of the
Mines II speak the of
will have the cooperation the Ptsbmg Operators
citation and the American Red Cross
expected that between 10000 and 10000 will
chat many the important coal companies will send their
first aid and corps to take part the exhibition Already
numlc Of teams have entered and in training for the which
promises be the important gathering assembled
Arsenal park the site Of the testing station of the bureau of
The the bureau arranging
The arrangements for the first demonstration the hands H. NJ
Wilson, engineer charge of the bureau Of Ptsbug Pa
Major Charles Lynch medical corps T. s. A. in charge the first aid
department of the Red Cors and DR. M E. Shields of Scranton Pa
both of whom pioneers of this assisting
The first aid the injured work will be of the features of the
day The from the local will contest
but will give exhibitions their skill bringing injured
and binding and fractures Many these
been instructed first aid by the of the Red Cross also
by the corps of the bureau of mines.
Between 5000 and 5000 miners injured each the United
States seriously that they die perhaps months aterward
Others manned that they cppes for life The work the
first aid the injured the
that injuries will be sened seriousness and the fatalities
perhaps avoided In the anthracite region of Pennsylvania the
aid has been highly developed through the work the
Red Cross and lives have been saved through prompt and efficient
work of the members of the various corps.
This has become popular the anthracite that
annual fed contests between the teams held each the
of thousands spectators Prizes the by the
badges and
Following the example the anthracite region and directly the
result of the instructions in first aid to the injured and the helmet
work being introduced all the United States by the
and stations the bureau of have been recently
ganzed in tie bumnou mining districts hlu hout the country
The members of these show Ell skill and will take
part in the exhibition
In addition to the exhibition y thef aid TIE miners will
witness and coal dust explosions miniature which will lie staged in
the great explosive gallery the bureau mines In Arsenal park there
will also be temporary gallery which will resemble coal mine
This will be placed the bottom of natural ampheare giving
clear to thousands OF There will be explosion
this play miner. will be entomled and Of the government
oxygen helmets will and the One side
will be open its entire length in order that the
lockers witness that happens underground horror
the life The famous helmets that members of the
Of the bureau and which have been Instrumental
saving number Of hives will be exhibition and explained the
The oxygen vvng apparatus which automatically takes the
poison gases the lungs Of sph xated miner and fills them
with OK will be demonstrated This apparatus has already
lick number Of miners given dead