New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-07-12
RESCUE SERVICE
!. FOR the ! MINERS 4 !
Bureau Of Mines Sending Out
Lie Saving Cars.
RED CROSS STAFF INSTRUCTS

Miners Taught to Aid ceussdee-ozy
gen Helmets Carried TO Protect From
| Poisonous Gases In Explosions, .
Five Miners Ar Killed Out Of EasI
Theusand Annually.
A life saving service for the rescu
Of miners in time Of disaster is beinl
inaugurated by the United State
bureau Of mines. Six specially con
structed cars, fully manned by a corp
OF miners trained in rescue work ant
equipped with the latest rescue appara
tus and first aid to the injured appli
ances, are being located tn the mids
Of the great coal districts in differen
parts Of the country. These cars viii
be ready at a moments notice to pro
coed to the scene Of disaster, where
the rescue corps, in cooperation with
the state mining officials, will do every
thing possible to save entombed min
erS.
This is the first important step taken
by the new bureau Of mines in its
efforts to reduce the appalling loss of
life in American coal mines.
Death Totals Large.
During the year 1909 there were
2,412 miners killed in the coal mines
and 1919 injured. In the coal and in
the metal mines it is estimated that
5000 men were killed and 10000 were
injured in 1909. For every 1000 men
employed from three to five men are
killed each year in the mines of the
United States. In foreign countries
from one to two are killed in each
1000 employed. In those European
countries where the deaths are least
per 1000 men employed rescue ap-
paratus has been in use for some time,
and it is with the hope that European
conditions can be approached that the
rescue apparatus is being introduced
here.
The saving Of human life will be
the emergency feature Of a general
of educational work among
the miners. who will not only be taught
the use of the rescue apparatus, but
also the proper way to take care of
an injured miner.
mining engineer and a surgeon of |
the American Red Cross will accom-.
oany each car and deliver illustrated |
ectures on the use of explosives, cleo
rical equipment, fire prevention, SAM.
alton and first aid surgical treatment.
these lectures will be given in the
ars wherever suitable place cannot
vutH p Siacs T 81 that miners
nay 60 through the training in rescue
work, which will be in charge of the
brennan of the car, practical miner
every effort will be made to encourage
ne miners to form rescue corps at the
mines where they are and to have the
perators equip them with rescue an
aratus
The cars will each contain eight 50
allied oxygen helmets, supply of
xygen in tanks, one dozen safety
amps, one field telephone with 1000
Get OF Wire, resuscitating outfits and
small outfit for use in demonstration
no actual practice of equipment re-
lung to the first aid to the injured in
onnection with mine accidents.
Demonstrations Given Miners.
one end of the cars is fitted up as an >
II tlSht room to be used in training
lie men in the use Of the so called .
Sygen helmets. This room will be ..
lied with noxious fumes, and the y
liners, wearing helmets, will remain
side for two hours in an atmosphere
lat would kill without the helmets.
nese are the helmets that permit one ~
enter a mine Immediately following
explosion, while it is still filed with
'lsonous gases, and breathe artif
ally. IL
Car No. 1, in charge of Charles En-
an mining engineer left Pittsburp p
e morning Of Oct. 81 for Monon, II
|nela City, Pa. 1t is then scheduled u
VISIT Mariana, Brownsville, Union
wn' Connellsville, scottdale, Indiana, T
Windber, South Fork, Por-
&C. Cresson. Punxsutawney, Clear G
ld' Philipsburg and State College.
car NO. went to the bureau of
mes rescue station at Urbana, ILL.,,
w. l. After remaining in Urbana al
several days the car will proceed "
Danville, ILL.,; Terre Haute, Ind, and ~
through southern Indiana to Evans. ST
lie. ST
our other cars similarly equipped i
being made ready for delivery to b
bureau of mines within few DAYS. pc
icy will make their headquarters at U
ck springs, Wyo.; Billings. Mont; ca