The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1911-10-05
WORK OF BUREAU OF MINES
Trying to. Protect the Lives of Thous-
ands of Miners Who Meet Death
in Unsafe Places.

IN OnSdIe Races.
Thirty thousand miners killed United States in the last tel
years.
Seventy thousand injured them manned TO
life, in the period!
thousand widows made by the deaths of the mners
Thirty thousand children left fatheress
This terrible record represents not the accidents IN the Goa
mines, but also the metal mines
It the story the tragedy the but not the whole story
the the United States those ten had had the same
standards Of safety the European countries the United State
had killed 1000 employed instead Of three four five
thousand the thirty thousand American miners killed nigh
living today forty thousand of the seventfv thousand in
ed might have escaped injury five thousand five hundred widows
widows and fifteen thousand orphan children Nigh
Still have fathers.
whole grim tragedy the mines epomzed 1t is
problems the country and the that brought
the bureau under the leadership Of Dr. Joseph Holm
Holiness its, director is attempting to solve.
problem responsible for the great national mine safety DEM
which be held Ptsbug Pa October rs and a.
auspices Of the bureau Of mines the American Red Cross the
Mine Workers America and the Ptsbug Coal Operators
10000 900 miners superintendent and ope
expected be President Taft whose acve interest
the Red Cross hads brought sympathetic touch with
the situation in the will be present and witness the domonsa
ton and also talk the miners Walter Fisher the secretary
bureau comes and who has taken deep interest the
work. will also be present and address the miners Governor Tene
Pennsylvania representing the largest coal producing the union
that mines nearly much coal Great Britain and who has
the welfare Of the miners at heart, will also make address
The purpose the demonstration show the
accomplishments of the bureau mines that will tend
reduction the number deaths So serious did the bureau of mines
the conditions the mines has found opportunity
pay particular attention to the accidents the metal mines and
qaurries avoe theme with many writer's the subject
mines has been that the the the
greatest the deaths While the experts Of the bureau
concede that caeness factor such accidents they
clare that not nearly important sit claimed be- They a
believe and they that their Investigations have borne this
that the United States still country the mining business and
that has not yet learned OF the fundamental safeguards that have
older through bitter experience The experts
that before they began their Investigations very
miners believed that coal dust could explode without
the The bureau mines has demonstrated beyond any
possible doubt that btumnou coal dust alone
the miner than fire damp Coal dust has been the big
ory of the explosions coal mines within the last
and has caused great loss of life The bureau October
also October a. will prove this assertion the assembled
On the first day. Bruceton Pa twelve miles from Pburg
will be actual explosion coal dust the experimental
longing the The experts will conditions that are to
be found the mines the United States today they
black powder which strongly urged against mines
What known miners the blowout shot will produced
blowout shot when the charge powder blows of the hole
and into the instead of breaking the coal cause of most
explosions for the flame from the powder ntes the damp
coal dust There will be in the mine the time shot will
be fired by electricity from the outside
On October 81 Forbes field the Pbg baseball park with
capacity of than 800 persons there will be explosion
of coal DUST this time for the benefit of the multitude temporary
steel gallery will be erected the playing field and the coal
be placed therein charge explosives will be fired the dust and
Taft will witness.
The bureau mines under Herbert M Wilson, charge
the Ptsbug experiment station the Pbug Coal Operators asso
citation and the American Red Cross bending every
this demonstration They believe that the seeing
of these explosions by the will give them sense of response
b their dangers and the between the teams will
lead to enthusiasm and better organization along line The
assertion made that medical attendance
first aid is will number the lives that being and
that of those who injured will be crippled for
merry.