Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — FIGHTING FIRE IN MINE [ARTICLE]

FIGHTING FIRE IN MINE

Government Crew at Work In Shaft at Shelburn, Ind. Shelburn, Ind., May 18.—Four wierdlooklng human figures, clothed in heavy butternut-colored suits, with metal lungs strapped to their backs and great metal heads, with thick plate glass faces and coiled wire wind pipes, are at work in the burning Keystone mine, which caught fire a week ago. The men constitute one of the government’s new crews whose mission ft is to enter exploded or burning mines to save life or property. In fighting the fires which have been burning in the “old Shelburn” they are introducing into Indiana the new equipment which the government hopes to bring before mine owners and miners in this country for use in time of mine disasters.