The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-12
ARRANGEMENTS
FOR lECT URES
Mine Rescue Experts to Give
Free Talks Wednesday

Engineer Higgins VINO is in charge
Of Rescue Car No of the bureau
Of mines announced today il has been
definitely decided the free public lee
ture 10 the miners and others inter
evening in the assembly room of the
Calumet high school. Illustrated talks
on various features OF mine rescue
work win be given by Mr.. Higgins.
Mr. Steidle and Mr.. Grove. and pos
Sibly nv Chief Engineer Rice OF the
! bureau OF mines, who is expected here
! from Pittsburgh on that day. The
lectures should appeal 10 every miner
| in this district. as their scope covers
every phase of the advanced methods
IN min" rescue work. There will also
be several musical numbers in con-
noction A. this probably will be the
last lecture on mine rescue work
while tie car is in Calumet every
mining man should make an effort To
attend
Tomorrow morning in the Washing
ton school building Mr. Grove. the first
aid expert, will address n gathering OF
the men employed i'm the electrical
departments ot the c. u II. ana other
mines IN this vicinity, also the en-
I1Oyes oi the Houehtuu County Trac- |
ton ana Electric Light companies. on !
The application al first aid methods !
as they pertain &" accidents in cleo
triypl work
N"N classes ~ frsI aid for the in
Jurcd ana in the use a. the mine res
,ue apparatus were started today and
vim continue an week. the classes
trained last week having completed
their work when the training Of the
] rosen- class is completed Calumet
should have mine rescue crew Of
tWent- or twenty-five men and about
fifty miners who have been trained to
apply dr~t 5id methods.
Car Well Equipped
The mine safety ear b. one Of the
isht tuat constitute the life saving
-rrvirc ul the bureau OF mines tor the
rescue ot miners in time OF disasters
. Al.. ~ N'it'hlllN flEIl my gen lltI- |
NETS, I'd supply OF oxygen in tanks, one
lo2cn safety lamps. enc field tele-
'hone with 1000 feet of wire, n col
lpsiblc steel mine cage for emergen.
les, a resuscitating apparatus known
IS the rulmotor for reviving asphyxi-
ted miners. and a small outfit for use
n demonstration of frst-aid. one end
4 the car IS fitted up as an air-tight ,
"om Ia BE- used ia training men in the /
Sc OF he oxygen helmets This room
ii hr filed with noXious fumes and II
Dee miners wearing the helmets re- {
nain inside for two hours in an at |
h"srhere that would xiii without hei /
lets
Helmets Invaluable. (
Those are thc helmets that permit
me- 10 enter mine Immediately fol. {
'wIng an explosion, while ii is stiil
He'd with poisonous gases, ana q
t"1thc artihcialy, The absence of
p" helmets AT great catastrophies in I
hr United States, has. II is believed. | I
suited in a greater loss Of life than
as necessary. Frequently miners '
no have not suffered physical in r
lry by an explosion have been en-
embed in the mine To die slowly L
rom the inhalation of the poisonous 5
ases had it been possible To reach 4
1ese men within "A few hours. their q
YES might have been saved. The he'll
cts proved their worth af the ILL fat Il
i Cherry mine when the rescuers sue
coded in getting twenty men out at r
r. they had been entombed seven DAYS. V
4 a number Of other instances. miners
ave been saved from terrible deaths q
V tn" prompt arrival Of the helmctcd II