Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1919 — TO SAVE LIFE IN MINES [ARTICLE]

TO SAVE LIFE IN MINES

First Aid Workers Show Advantage of Training. Skill to Be Demonstrated at Contest to Be Held by Bureau of Mines. Washington. That America can bind her wounds as skillfully as she ‘can fight will be shown in the great ■ national first-aid and mine-rescue contest to be held under the auspices of the bureau of mines, department of the interior, at Pittsburgh, Pa., Sep; tember 30 and October 1. Coal and metal miners all over the country are engaging in first-aid and ’mine-rescue contests to fit themselves for the national demonstration. In 10 different mining states, local/or state meets have already been held or will be held in the near future. It ta aatimated that out of the mtl-

lion miners in the United States more than a hundred thousand are well trained in emergency first-aid work and hate been instrumental in saving many lives in and around mines. It is said to be a frequent occurrence for hospital surgeons upon receiving an injured miner to declare that the firstaid treatment received in the mine from the- miners had undoubtedly saved the man’s life. These first-aid teams are shattered 1 throughout the United. States where mines are found, and are the results of the pioneer work of the bureau of mines In maintaining a mine-resoae car or station in each of the mining fields for the purpose of training these men. In addition to this work, the bureau’s experts teach the miners bow to save life in. mines, and especially the use of the oxygen mine-rescue apparatus that permits the wearer, after a mine explosion or disaster to en-

ter the deadly atmosphere there with comparative safety, and succor possb ble living miners. These mine-rescue teams, located at the various mines, are also to participate in the national demonstration. A