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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—A plea
for preparedness at coal and metal
mines, so that if a disaster comes and
imprisons many miners the officials
hay have a definite plan for action in
saving life is outlined in a report just
issued by the bureau of mines of the
department of the interior, and which
is being sent to practically ell of the
mines in the United States. The bur
eau of mines has aided in rescue work
at many mine explosions and has been
instrumental in saving the lives of
many men, but in almost every in
stance where there has been a great
disaster the bureau’s officials say they
have found great confusion prevailing
with much valuable time wasted be
fore a proper rescue organization
could be effected. There has also been
a serious absence of equipment neces
sary for the recovery of the men en
tombed. Lack of such preparedness,
the bureau says, no doubt has often
resulted in an unnecessary loss of life
| among the imprisoned men and also
i among the rescue force.
! Since the bureau began its rescue
| work it has endeavored to guide in
; the formation of competent rescue or
I ganizations at mine disasters, but has
1 been greatly hampered because of the
J different methods in practice in dif
ferent parts of the country, llased
! on its experience at many mine dis
' asters, the bureau has now formulated
! a code which it is felt should be in the
I hands, of every responsible official at
I a mine. This code provides for an or
1 ganization at each mine that would
' become automatically active the mo
ment there is a disaster. It also gives
a list of the necessary materials to
have on hand at all times and out
lines the most important duties for
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these organizations during such emer
gencies.
“At times there has been some lit
tle misunderstanding as to just what
part of the bureau of mines is expect
ed to take in rescue work,” said Van
H. Manning, director of the bureau.
“This manual is intended to define
the duties of the rescuers and to bring
about a better understanding between
the men engaged in rescue work as to
the functions of the bureau. It has
been a popular notion that the rescu
ers of the bureau wearing heavy oxy
gen-rescue apparatus should carry the
dead from the mine and there has
been some little disappointment at the
refusal of the rescuers to take part in
this work. It has been my policy that
the rescuers should seek to save live
men and give them assistance and
should not be called upon except in
special emergencies to carry bodies
and then only for a short distance. The
entire strength of the men, thus hand
icapped by the heavy apparatus,
should be expended in saving life.
“Disasters do not come frequently
to individual miners and there has
been a natural feeling that they will
never come. Consequently' very little
thought is given to what should be
done when such a catastrophe does
come. The result has been little pre
paredness and considerable confusion
especially when some of the best men
in the employ’ of the company are im
prisoned or killed. This manual is in
tended to give the operators and sup
erintendents and other officials of the
mines some idea of the character of
organization that should be normally
in force at a mine every day it is
working, and explains how this or
ganization may be turned into an ef
fective rescue force when a disastei
comes. It is an effort on the part of
the bureau to save the maximum pos
sible number of men imprisoned in a
mine at at the same time to safe
guard the lives of the rescuers, many
of whom have been sacrificed in the
past. The bureau does not like to
tllink of disasters happening; at the
same time it believes in preparedness
when they do come. If the sugges
tions in this little book succeed in sav
ing the life of a single miner, the bu
reau will be repaid for its efforts
along this line.”
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VERDUN, France, Dec. 3;— (By
Mail)—With the close of the war the
entire line of trenches in France, ex
tending from Alsace to the Belgium
border, may be converted into a sort
of national sacred forest, as a perma
nent tribute to the memory of the
French “poilus” who died there; de
| fending their national soil.
A propositon to this effect has just
been prepared by the general council
of the department of the Meuse and
will soon be submitted to the French
government. The plan is to buy the
i battleground from the farmers.
Should this plan be finally aice'pted
future generations not only of France
but of the entire world, would always
have the opportunity of visiting the
line of trenches over 600 kilometers
; in length on which the French threw
back the tide of German invasion at
the battle of the Marne and which till
the end of the war will always remain
the basis of France’s military effort to
rid her soil entirely of the enemy.
The immediate land through which
these long lines of trenches run, to
gether with the battlefields of the
Somme, of Artois and of Champagne
will, it is believed, never again be ren
dered cultivable. Aside from the
deep trenches and boyaus, the ground
has been so pitted with shell holes to
a depth varying from a few to 15
feet, and all the upper strata soil on
which fertility depends so completely
wiped out that little if any use could
ever be made of the ground for agri
cultural purposes for years to come.
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Call between 5th and 6th, near C. St.
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