The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-12
UNCLE SAM AND THE MIXERS.
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mine disaster, where the r~escuers were
able to get twenty men out alive after
they had been entombed seven days.
1t is true hat Joseph Evans lost ms
life while using one at the Pancoast
disaster at Throop Pa, but that was
because he did not calculate that a
nan working hard would consume
much more oxygen than while at rest
One end of each of the rescue cars
is fitted up as a tight room TO be used
in training men in the use of
This room Is filled with noxious fumes
and gases, in which the miners wear
ing the helmets stay for two hours.
The atmosphere is such that n
would die without the helmets. Sim
at the various stations; and some OF
these have been made to resemble a
miniature coa mine after it has been
wrecked by an explosion.
Will Make q Dead Nan Breathe.
Another most interesting apparatus
with which these cars are fitted is one
which pump oxygen into the lungs
Of a man, making him breathe Wheth-
er he be conscious or not. Indeed. it
is. said it will max eve a corpse
greathe, although j cannot, of course.
restore life. 1t forces the oxygen in
and sucks it out making a continu-
Gus breathing very much like nature.
1 was shown this machine by Mr..
John L. Cochrane of the bureau of
mines, who allowed me to test it upon
myself. The apparatus was fitted
closely over my face, covering my chin
and nostrils. Then by touching a but
ton the oxygen was turned on and l
found my lungs pumped full and
sucked empty in a natural operation
of breathing. l was first asked, how
ever, whether my heart was all right.
although Mr.. Cochrane assured me
thai there was no great danger. even
though it were weak. He said that
the machine should be in every hospi-
tai, and. in every equipment Of first
aid-to-the-injured, and especially at
seaside resorts where are
frequent.
Ia place Of lifting the arms back
and forth and trying to pump air into
the body the machine does the work
better and With more regularity. On
one occasion four men who had been
in a mine for tWenty-SiX hours after
an explosion were left for dead by
| those Who discovered them. Later it
was observed hat one Of the bodies
felt a little warm under the arms.
The others were as cold as the grave.
This machine was brought into &C
ton, and it soon brought life back to
the man slightly warm It was then
tried upon the other three, with the
| result that all -four are alive today.
The Miners, Mine owner and the
Public.
DR.. Holmes believes that his bureau
will do much to bring about closer re-
lations between the miners and the
owners. They are mutually Interested
in these movements to prevent acct
dents and to save life. and are work.
ing together. He saws that our mines
are operated at a comparatively small
profit, and that the European owners.
owing to low age and the high
price they get for their coal. can af-
ford to mine better and to give their
better conditions Of safety.
He m that We lose over 200,-
0 600 tons of coal every year by ON
Wasteful methods Of mining, and says
that this loss Of life and money could
be greatly reduced by Government in
spection, n by The cooperation of
the mine owners and miners, and
perhaps OF the public as we'll. He tells
me that Of the 50 or Sc per ton that
is paid for COAL, only 81, it is esti-
mated, goes back to the mine to be
tor and The landowner, and that dol
lar pays for the equipment and de-
Nelopment of the mine, all the labor
and costs and dangers of mining ope-
%rations. and the loading of the coal
on the cars ready for shipment. The
balance, which Is from tWo-thirds to
hve-sixths of the price we pay for our
coal goes to the railroads and the
mlddlenen who handle it. This is
manifestly an unfair division on the
part of both the consumer and miner.
and enough should be taken out to
warrant the latter the best Of protec-
ton.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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