Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-03-25
MINE RESCUE CAR.
VIII Be In Hurley from April 2 to s.
At Montreal from April
9Th to 18th.

Mine-reseue Car No. I of the Unit
ed States Bureau Of Mines, in charge
OF Foreman Miner j J Forbes and a
crew of trained men, will reach Ram
sey, Michigan, on March 25. The car
viii be on exhibition every day from
900 a. m. to 500 p. m. until April /,
and free lectures will be given to min
ers on safe methods of mining, the
use of safety lamps and rescue appar-
atus, and mine gases. On April 2,
the car will come to Hurley, to remain
until April 8, after which date it is to
proceed to Montreal, to remain until
April IS. From April 16 to April %,
inclusive, the car will be at Bessemer,
Michigan.
This mine-rescue car is one of eight
now in use by the Bureau of Mines
for training miners in first aid and
rescue methods and the use of oxygen
breathing apparatus. Each car has a
crew that includes two experienced
miners, a mining engineer in charge
and a mine surgeon, and is equipped
with the latest rescue and first-aid
apparatus and supplies. At mo-
ment's notice the car is ready to pro-
coed to the scene of a mine disaster,
where the bureau men place them
selves under the direction of the state
mining inspectors and mine officials
to do everything possible to assist or
save miners who may have been in
jured or entombed.
The saving of human life and les
SEEMING the sufferings of injured min
ers are the central features of the
bureaus work.
Miners are shown how to use res
cue apparatus, and how to take care
of an injured comrade. The lectures
are illustrated by lantern slides and
moving pictures which show good and
bad methods of mining and how many
accidents are easily prevented. These
lectures are given in the car when a
suitable meeting place cannot be pro-
cured elsewhere, but lantern slides
and moving pictures cannot be shown
in the car.
Each car carries oxygen breathing
apparatus, supply OF oxygen in cy-
finders, safety lamps, field tele-
phone with 1000 feet of wire, a col
lapsible steel mine cage, an apparat-
us for reyiying miners who have been
gassed, and the charts, splints, and
bandages for demonstrating first-aid
methods. Some of the training with
rescue apparatus will be inside the
mines, also in smoke or fumes, so
that wearers will understand the val
ne Of the apparatus and how to use it.
a miner wearing the apparatus can
enter mine Immediately after an ex-
ploslOn, and work in smoke and black
damp for two hours.
Many thousand miners have been
trained in the use of this rescue APP
paratus at the Bureau of Mines cars
and stations. 1t is hoped that in the
near future every miner in this coun-
try will have a working knowledge of
the apparatus, and that every mine
will have equipment ready for use in
case of emergency. Many miners
have been saved after explosion by
rescue parties wearing the apparatus
Also, the apparatus has proved of
great value in fighting mine fires.
Free instruction and training in
methods of first aid to the injured are
also given by crews of the rescue cars
and stations aud this instruction is
given either in connection with res
cue apparatus training Tor entirely
separately, hence is applicable not
only to underground workers but to
all those employed in or around the
mines and metallurgical establish
meuts,