Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — Life Saving Contests for Miners. [ARTICLE]

Life Saving Contests for Miners.

Mining men from all parts of the country attended the second annual Inter-company meet of first aid teams held recently at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., under the auspices of the National Red Cross society. United States army officers acted as judges In the contests in which various teams demonstrated their skill In rescuing miners under most difficult conditions. An air-tight mine chamber was built In an open field for the contests and charged with various kinds of fumes, such as are met with In coal mines, and it was In this that the first aid teams did their rescue work, completing their task of restoring the Rescued men out In the open air. Teams from the Lehigh Valley Coal company, Pennsylvania, Hillside, Temple and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western competed in the events, which were in charge of Maj. Charles Lynch of the United States army. For the first time in the history of the movement there was a display of first aid work by engineers from the government experiment station at Pittsburg.