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28 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
771.3 miles, two miles below Newbury, Ind. Sites
determined but contracts not let.
No. 48, 804.1 miles, 10 miles below Henderson,
Ky., near Tobacco Patch. Contract to be let during
1911.
No. 49, 830.5 miles, one mile above Uniontown,
Ky.; No. 50, 839.6 miles, one mile above Caseyville,
Ky.; No. 51, 876.9 miles, Elizabethtown, 111.;
No. 52, 912.4 miles, eight miles above Paducah,
Ky., near Smithland, Ky. Sites determined but
contracts not let.
No. 53, 947.3 miles, 10 miles above Mound City,
111.; No. 54, 962 miles, three miles above Cairo,
111. Preliminary surveys only.
According to the Light List of the Fourteenth
Lighthouse District corrected to October 1, 1906,
measured according to channel, the distance from
Pittsburgh to larger cities is as follows: Wheeling,
W. Va., 90 miles; Parkersburg, W. Va., 183.5
miles; Point Pleasant, W. Va., 263.5 miles; Huntington,
W. Va., 306.5 miles; Portsmouth, W. Va.,
353.5 miles; Cincinnati, O., 466.5 miles; Louisville,
Ky., 598 miles; Evansville, Ind., 783 miles; Paducah,
Ky., 920 miles; Cairo, 111., 965 miles.
CORONOR'S JURY PLACES NO RESPONSI­
BILITY FOR SYKESVILLE MINE DISASTER.
The coroner's jury investigating the accident at
Cascade Coal & Coke Co.'s shaft, Sykesville, Pa.,
July 15, in which 21 miners lost their lives, in its
verdict stated that "the victims came to their
death from burns and asphyxiation as a result of
an explosion of gas and from the evidence submitted,
we are unable to place any responsibility."
The jury heard a mass of evidence from fire bosses
and inspectors and the fact was brought out that
gas had been detected from time to time but
not in dangerous quantities.
The official report of the inspectors narrated the
condition of the mine following the explosion, and
the following conclusions arrived at:
First—That the gas having accumulated in dangerous
quantities in the third right and parallel
entries, we are of opinion that a door on the
eighth left, used in conducting or directing ventilation
into said third right was left open.
Second—That the gas ignited by the flame of an
open lamp or the flame of a blast fired in the coal
at the face of the parallel entry to said third
right.
Owing to the fact that there was a considerable
quantity of explosive gas generating in the advance
workings on eighth and ninth left entries
rendering the mine unsafe, we recommend in order
to prevent the possibility of a recurrence of another
such accident, the following:
First—That all stoppings between inlet and re­
turn always be constructed of concrete, brick or
stone.
Second—That permissible explosive that has
passed the test of the Government Testing stations
be exclusively used hereafter for blasting purposes.
Third—That all shot holes be tamped with incombustible
material and all shots fired by electric
batteries in the hands of competent shot firers.
Fourth—That electric wire where installed be
kept on intake airways where locked safety lamps
are used.
Fifth—That all workings at face of south main
headings and all workings to left of south mains
be worked exclusively with locked safety lamps.
Respectfully yours,
C. P. BYRNE,
Inspector of Twelfth Bituminous District.
ELIAS PHILLIPS,
Inspector of Fourth Bituminous District.
JOSEPH KNAPPER,
Inspector of Eighth Bituminous District.
THOS. D. WILLIAMS,
Inspector of Sixth Bituminous District.
CHAS. P. MCGREGOR,
Inspector of Nineteenth Bituminous District.
Dated July 20, 1911.
MINERS' OFFICIALS JAILED.
Edward Doyle and William Crawford, officers of
the United Mine Workers, and 12 other miners,
were sentenced by Judge Whitford July 15 for
violating the injunction restraining the strikers
of the northern Colorado coal field from picketing.
Sentence of one year imprisonment for Doyle and
Crawford and fines for the others were imposed
and all were committed to jail pending payment
of the fines. In sentencing the men, the court
took opportunity to denounce the union, declaring
that the miners had maligned as well as attempted
to intimidate him. The miners committed to
jail have announced that they will not pay their
fines.
The tonnage of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. for the
six months ended June 30 was approximately 6,-
000,000 tons, a decrease of about 550,000 tons, or
7% per cent., from the corresponding period of
last year. This is a better showing than recent
reports of coal trade conditions have indicated.
Shipments so far in July make a better comparison
with July, 1910, than May and June did with
the corresponding months of last year.
The Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
that the only coal field in the state where blasting
from the solid is still practiced is the Sangamon
county district. Elsewhere this method has been
abandoned as wasteful and dangerous.