Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-20


| 9f ths dramatlc program on that day,
The Bureau OF Mines Is engaged IN a
number Of deaths In the mines II
has at tho present time, IN the var
ious coal fields, seven fully equip
ped Rescue cars manned by expert
I rcscuers who have been carefully
trained IN the use Of the oxygen he'll
met This helmet permits artificial
| breathing in poisonous atmosphere for
a period Of two hours. Equipped with
one Of these helmets, a rescuer can
enter a mine Immediately following
an explosion and while the mine Is
/ sull filled with deadly fire-damp The
| rescucrs are thus able 20 find miners
who have been overcome by the pois-
onous gases and bring them 10 the
surface before they die. A number Of
lives have been saved by these he'll
met men.
The rescuers in addition have been
trained in flrst-aid-to-the-inju njured
work and quarry the necessary equip
meut including a wonderful piece Of
. apparatus, an oxygen reviving outfit
that works automatically, pumping
. the poisonous gas out Of the lungs OF
I an asphyXiated miner and filling the
lungs with oxygen. This apparatus
has brought apparently dead miners
back to life. II has IN several instan-
. ces resuscitated miners who had been
given up for dead.
The rescue cars visit the various coal
mines Of the country while not engag-
ed in actual rescue work and instruct
the miners In The use Of the oxygen
/ helmet, the oxygen reyiying appar-
atus and in first-aid- -to-the-iniured.
/ AZ a result of this work, volunteer res
/ cue corps, fully equipped with modern
apparatus have been established at
many mines and an impetus has been
given 20 the ambulance and first-aid-
to-the-injured corps Rescue and
'irst-ail teams from the principal coal
mines Of the country viii attend the
/ demonstration and give friendly ex-
hibitions Of their skill An expert
corps from the Bureau Of Mines will
give an exhibition of rescue work i'm
/ modiate.y following the coal explosion
/ i'm the steel gallery. The rescuers viii
rush into the smoke-filled gallery and
bring out the supposed victims. DEM
onstrauous with the oxygen reviying
apparatus and first aid Will follow.
Then the teams from the coal mines
will show how rapidly and accurately
/ they can work IN an emergency. There
VIII be contests in the bandaging Of
dangerous wounds and broken limbs.
The miners will show how TO staunch
flow of slood from a severed artery.
how they splint the body for a COM
/ pound frature of thethigh and how
they wash a wound TO prevent blood
poisoning.
This d-to-the-injured work
/ is considered extremely important
among the miners, who have a much
more difficult problem on their hands
than do employees in the workshops
and factories. rs a rule, when a min
er is dangerously wounded, he is gem
orally far into the mine. II a work.
man IS injured in a factory, he can
be Immediately rushed to a hospital.
The factory employee is generally
working in the daylight and it is easy
to see how badly he is injured and
what precautions should be taken to
prevent the infection of his wound.
But the miner may be crushed by a
fall Of coal a mile or more from the
shaft of the mine. There is only the
faint flicker Of the miners smoky
lamps to throw upon his wound and
there is the long, dark. dangerous,
and uneven mile OF under ground
passagos before he can be brought to
the surface In some Of the mines
these passages are merely black
holes through which the miners have
to crawl on their hands and knees.
dragging the wounded miner along as
gently as possible on a hastily impro-
yised stretcher.
And there is never a lack Of volun-
teers on such an occasion No one
ever saw a miner hesitate to go back
to the rescue Of wounded miner no
matter what happened in the mine.
The real story of the tragedy of the
mines is one filled with unparalleled
herolsm. The death roll of rescuers
In the last few years attests eloquent
ly to this. No miner can think OF
the terrible disasters at Hanna, Wyo.,
and Cherry, H., without a tear for
the heroes who lost their lives in at
tempting to save others. There were
but sixteen miners in the mine at
Hanna when the explosion occurred.
Forty volunteers went down to bring
them out and second explosion kill
I'd every one in the mine. including
one Of the state mine inspectors ana
all the superintendents Of mines from
the vicinity Every man in author
ity at that mining camp lost his life
IN that second explosion.
At Cherry, 1t will be remembered
how twelve men went down the shaft
TO the rescue Of the men entombed In
the burning mine. When the cage
finally came up, the rescuers were
Piled up dead on It,
At the Pancoast disaster in Penn.
sy!yania, 1t will be recalled that one
of the Bureau Of Mines trained res.