Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1913 — Coal Dust Explosions. [ARTICLE]

Coal Dust Explosions.

As a precaution against coal dust explosions Prof. William Galloway said that if the coal duet In a roadway in a mine were regularly strewn With a sufficient amount of salts' containing large quantities of water of crystallisation, or with much larger proportions of the dust of eiay, elate, limestone, ohalk or other substances, it would be rendered quite as Innocuous as if It were damped with water.