Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — In a Coal Mine. [ARTICLE]

In a Coal Mine.

A physician asserts that disease is no mire demolishing in its raids among the workers in coal pits than it is among the agriculturists and laborers. If one can be guided by statistics, the coal dust atmosphere in which their life is passed is no element of any serious evil- to them; it may not be pleasant, but it is not unhealthful; indeed, the actual death rate of thee miners is not abnormally high, even when it includes the fatal wholesale disasters which occur from time to time in the pits.