The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-05-25
MINE RESCUE CAR
WILL ARRIVE
|. May 20
LATEST APPLIANCES TO BE
SHOWN IN TALKS TO
MINERS

WASHINGTON, D. c., May H.
Nine-rescue al No. 1 of the United
States bureau of mines, in charge of
]. J.. Forbes, engineer, and a crew
eff trained men, will reach Lun-
ing, Nevada, on May Is. The a
will be on exhibition every day
from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m, until May
2s, and free lectures will be given
ID miners on safe methods of min
ing, the use of safety lamps and
rescue apparatus and mine gases.
On May rs, the car will go to
Gcldfield, New, to remain until
June 1, after which date it will
proceed to Tonopah, New, to re-
main until June s. From June 8
to Is, inclusive, the car will be
stationed at Ruth, Nevada.
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 ap-
paratus. Each car has a crew that
includes two experienced miners,
a mining engineer in charge, and
d mine surgeon, and is equipped
with the latest rescue and first
aid apparatus and supplies. At a
moments notice the car is ready
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disaster, where the bureau men
place themselves under the direc-
ton of the state mining inspectors
and mine officials to do everything
possible to assist or save miners
who may have been injured or en-
tombed.
~lessening the sufferings of injured
miners are the central features of
the bureaus work.
Miners are shown how to use
rescue 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 lee
lures are given in the car when a
suitable meeting place cannot be
procured elsewhere, but lantern
DIES and moving pictures cannot
~ ohnup IN tho oar
Each car carries Oxygen-breath-
ing apparatus, a supply of oxygen
in cylinders, safety lamps, a field
telephone with 1000 feet of wire,
an apparatus for reviving 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 value
Of the apparatus and how to use
it. 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 trained in the use OF this
rescue apparatus at the Bureau OF
Mines cars and stations. 1t is hop
ed that in the near future every
miner in this country will have a
working knowledge of the appara-
-tus land 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 appara-
tus. Also, the apparatus has prov
ed of great value in fighting mine
fires.
Free instruction and training in
methods of first aid to the injur-
ed are also given by crews of the
rescue cars and stations and this
instruction is given either in con-
nection with rescue apparatus
training or entirely separately.
hence is applicable not only to un-
derground workers, but to all those
eunnloyed in or around the mines