The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-30
MINE RESCUES
 DISCUSSED AT
 BIG CONCLAYE
By Associated Press)

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 Mexico, will compete for honors at the annual International first aid and mine rescue meet here September l, 2, and under the auspices of the United States bureau of mines, in co-opera. tion with mine operators associations, miners organizations, the national safety council and the Red Cross.
 Under conditions, approximating as closely as possible those found in mines during disastrous fires and ex- plosions, teams will rescue supposed | ly entombed miners from a specially constructed gallery and other teams will administer first aid to supposed injured miners.
 John J. Lewis, president of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America, United | States Senator Miles Poindexter of | Washington, chairman of the senate committee on mines. and approximate | ly 1000 mining men from all parts of the country are expected to attend the meeting.
 H. Foster Bain, director of the United States bureau of mines at Washington. said the purpose of the meeting was to promote greater safe ty in the mining industry. Explaining the meeting he said:
 As an industry, which iu this coun. try alone employs more than a mil lion men in hazardous work the move ment for greater safety and efficiency in mining has been gaining in impetus each year until today these contests are looked upon by the miners as one of the greatest events in the indus l try. With more than 50.0OO miners having voluntarily taken the bureaus prescribed training course in first aid and rescue work and with these men organized into teams at the vari- ous mines throughout the country for the promotion of the welfare of their fellow workmen, their participation in the contests promises to make the event a humanitarian effort of great moment"
 The unsung, unheralded hero, who performs his deeds of valor thousands of miles from the bullet-swept battle | field in dark underground crannies rocking with deadly gases that attend mine explosions and fires is to be ac- corded well merited recognition at the rescue meet Gold medals and di- 1 plOmas of valOr for saving, or dying in the attempt to save, the lives of their fellow miners, will be awarded the twelve heroes of mine disasters, or their nearest surviving relatives. by Director Bain, on behalf of the Jo- seph A. Holmes Safety Association, of which he is president
 Medals will be awarded to six Butte. | Montant, miners for thcir efforts to save the life of a surveyor who was overcome by gases from mine fire at | the Leonard mine of the Anaconda | Mining Company. These men are K. 1 P Krueger, Lew F. Ryan, Frank Pierce, Herbert Farlin George Reich ert and John Gregovich. Medals will be presented to the nearest relatives of Francis Henry Murphy and William | FerringtOn, of Franklin, Kansas. who lost their lives in the No. l9 mine of the Jackson-Walker Coal and Mining Company in an effort to rescue two shot-firers who were imprisoned fol. | lowing an explosion in the mine and who were later found dead.
 Alex Ogilvie and Thomas Gold of Lehigh Okla, will each receive a medal for extricating at great risk a worker who accidentally came in con- tact with an electrically charged wire. receiving shock which rendered him unconscious. After extricating the unconscious miner, Ogilvie and Gold immediately applied first aid methods, giving him artificial respiration, which, in thirty to forty-five minutes, resulted in his being revived.
 Medals will be presented to the | nearest relatives of Lasco Robinson and Clarence Williams, of Degnan. Oklahoma. who died in their attempt to warn miners in the No. 19 mine of the NJ K & T Coal CnmnaDy of an i'm pending explosion from an accumula. ton of gas within the mine. Before Robinson and Williams reached the men to give them warning, the gas ac- cumulated and the explosion occurred, resulting the loss of ten lives, includ- ing their own.
 The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Asso- citation was founded in 1916 in honor