Gunnison news-champion., 1917-06-29

Government Apparatus and Free Lee
ture Bureau Accompanies II. Un-
fortunate Cannot Get on Narrow
Gage.
Washington. d. C., June lS.-Mine-
Rescue Car No. 2 Of the United States
Bureau Of Mines, in charge of c. A.
Herbert, and crew Of trained men,
will reach Cameo, Colorado, on June
80. The car will be on exhibition eve
~ day from 900 4. m. to 500 p. m,
until July 9, and free lectures will be
. given TO miners on safe methods of
mining. the use Of safety lamps and
rescue apparatus. and nine gases.
! The car will then proceed TO Bowie,
Delta county, Colorado. and remain
/ there until July IS. it will then pro-
cecd to Somerset, Colorado, and re-
main there until July 27.
This mine-rescue car is one Of eight
now in use by the Bureau Of Mines for
I training miners in first-aid and res
cue methods and the use Of oxygen
breathing apparatus. Each car had
a crew that includes two experienced
miners, a mining engineer in charge.
and mine surgeon, and is equipped
with the latest rescue and first-aid
apparatus and supplies. At NOM
cnt'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
20 do everything possible TO assist or
save miners who may have been in
( jurod or cntombed.
The saving of human life and les
soning the suiTerings of injured min
crs 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 suitable meeting place can
not be procured elsewhere, but Ian
tern slides and moving pictures can
not be shown IN the car.
Each car carries oNygen-breathing
apparatus. supply of oxygen in cyl
inders, safety lamps, a field telephone
with 1000 feet Of wire. collapsible
steel mine cage, an apparatus for
reviving miners who have been gas
sed, and the charts, splints, and BAN
1ages for demonstrating first-aid
rescue apparatus will be inside the
mines. also in smoke or fumes, so
that miners will understand the value
of the apparatus and how to use 1t.
: A miner wearing the apparatus can
enter a mine Immediately after an
explosion, and work in smoke and
! black damp for two hours.
Many thousand miners have been in
structed in the use Of this apparatus at
the Bureau of Mines cars and sta
tions. 1t is hoped that in the near
future every miner in this country
will have 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 explosions 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 and this instruction
is given either in connection with res
cue apparatus training or entirely
separately, hence is applicable not to
underground workers, but to all those
employed in or around the mines and
metallurgical establishments.
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