Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-05-11
AN APPALLING DEATH RATE

According o the annual report last year OF the Federal Bureau
OF Mines, indsputabe evidence showed that conditions tending toward
safety in coalmning arc actually improving. and that coal is being
mined with less danger to the miner than eve before" Faith in this
optimistic statement must be shaken by such a disaster As that at the
New River co1Gcries in West Virginia, in which I2 men persisted.
1t is true that since 1907, in which year, in four exceptionally dNas-
trous explosions, o9C lei we're killed. the number OF fatalities, from
that cause each year has decreased. In 1910. in gas and coal-dust exNo-
stons. 5s lei we're killed in the United States; in 1911, $40 men we're
killed; in 1912 5l were killed. 1t may be true that this apparent i'm
provement, a the Bureau OF Mines concludes, has been brought about
through more efficient mine inspections on the part Oft the state mining
departments IN greater are N nc part OF operator n miners IN
foreground due to minor causes OF which the public takes little note.
varies far less.
From 100" to 1918 there we're eleven coal mine explosions in each
OF which ove 100 live, we're lost. or 2MO in all. The worst disaster
1863, gas and coaldust explosions caused 1888 accidents and Sill
deaths, o owe three-fourths OF the men killed. The next greatest num-
Der OF deaths wa re" mine fires which caused the loss of 1852 lives
or oe IS per cen OF the total, by thhtythree accidents.
L" 1912 the death-rate was SIS for every 1000 lie employed, and
429 men killed for every 100000 tons OF coal mined. But the United
States has the highest deathrate of any OF the nine countries enumer-
54 per 1000 men employed in coal-minng in the United States. it "a
only I'll in Germany, 100 in France. 156 in Great Britain, lo4 in
Austria and |. % in Belgium.
Obviously, these figures mean that the toll Of lives lost in coal
mining in this country is excessive Obviously, they also signify that
the United States still has much to learn in caring for the lives of its
coal-mincrs, and that if progress, has actually been made in the last
five years it is still far behind other countnes-New York World.
The Chicago RecordIIerald and :he Chicago Inter Ocean have been
purchased by James Kedey, general manager OF the Chicago Tribune,
The transfer OF the papers a announced shortly after George Wheel
er linman, holder of the majority OF the InterOcean bonds, had bough;
the lner-Ocean for $4,000 for a receivers sale in the Federal court.
w. w. Chaplin, formerly in charge OF the San Francisco Call, will be
associated with Keeley in the management Of the papers, according to
the announcement Chaplin, it "a said, will manage the business affairs
and keel@y the editorial department
National Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers association held its
tweny fourth annual convention in Cleveland last week It's PRESIDENT
John Il. Rowland, gay an interview in which he said that freak STYLES
III womens clothes are o. the wane and after next fall lei will not
be ashamed to see their wives dressed i'll the height of fashion," Some
wee ago leaders OF society in Paris declared against immodest and
extreme fashions the reaction to more sane styles OF dress has al
ready commenced there.
The first case to reach the Supreme our involving directv the
consututonalty OF the federal income tax "a dockted Fridav l.
was an appeal from the refusal of the Federal District court in Southern
New York to enjon the Union Pacific railroad, at the instance of a
stakeholder, from paving the tau.
q thousand sacks OF wool left Stockton, Cal, FRIDAY to be sho-
ped to Boston via the Panama canal 1t is reported that this ship
will pass through the canal o n the first merchantmen to be pilot
al tbro,nb tb.t v,to-u-