Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 52

2000 DEAD, TOTAL FORMINES N 192 Year’s Figures Are Far From “Black” Record Made in 1907, However. More than 2,000 men Kkilled in the coal mme France, in 1906 there was an ex- plosion in which more than 1,100 per- sons were killed. England and Japan also have had far greater dis- asters than any recorded in the United States. Nevertheless there have been 16 major disasters in the mines of this country this year, compared to 14 in and while they will account for to 337 of the total number killed car, the percentage to the total of more than 2,000 deaths will be small. More than 50 per cent of the deaths annually occurring in coal mines are due to falling roofs. In the Government records, kept by W. Adams, statistician of the | | Bureau of Mines in the Department { of Commerce, deaths in the mining | | Industry are figured on a percentage {basls of coal produced. This may ‘<Dun\l cold-blooded to an extent, but | 1t is the only satisfactory method of - | comparison which has been devised | numbc 3,242, and t r for which any In 1910 the nu third ground worker: The large ni plosions, in_wh because mining is more or less of a sporadic industry. | *The fatality rate for the first 10 » | months of this ar in the bituminous | mines was 3.60 per million of tons o l"r coals produced, as compared to | 348 in 1925, and in the anthracite - | regions the death rate was 6.16 per 025. Of the total deaths during the .| Airst’ 10 months of this year 1,657 - | occurred in bituminous mines and 361 s | in the anthracite digging. of mine maller this 3 averags. The Bu. which keeps a com- fatalitics “lI plete record ground w until 191, been a death ratc Most Deaths Unheralded. The really sad part of the mine sta- hat, while the major disas- ct public solicitude, the ajority of deaths in the mines ed and are due to work- For instance, in the or which able. the rom .xll cauges . Of this numlver only 307 were killed in major explosions. ‘The death list for the latest explo- sion, at Francisco, Ind., has not beer completed. Taken together with an explosion at Moundsville, W. Va., on November 15, it may add 27 to 30 fa- talities to the major explosion class. ‘The worst disaster of 1926 occurred at Wilburton, Okla., January 13 when 91 men were killed. The next worst was at Clymer, Pa., August 26 when 44 were killed. ‘The worst mine disaster in the his- was stinct improvement in the tory of the United States was at Monongah, W. Va., December 6, 1907, when 361 lives were snuffed out in a dust explosion. The country had hardly recovered from this shocking tragedy when an explosion occurred at Jacobs Creek, Pa. in which 239 men were killed. 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