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...Coglin travelled to England to study at the Millfield School and train for the 1976 British Olympic Team...
...comparative quiet of noon-hour one day last week in the mining village of Millfield, Ohio, a great rumbling and roar burst skyward. Suddenly the place swarmed with running human beings who converged on a wooden shed covering the shaft of Sunday Creek Coal Co.'s mine No. 6. Men, women & children hurried, hurried, their faces set, their eyes wide with foreknowledge that what every miner fears had happened. As they raced to the shaft-head, the earth shook beneath their feet again-another murderous, man-trapping, mind-shattering explosion. The racers were friends & relatives...
Last week while mine inspectors were investigating the coal mine tragedy in Millfield, Ohio (see p. 18), Daniel Harrington, Chief of the Safety Division of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, urged metal mine operators to adopt a modern method of warning miners of danger. The alarm signal is a penetrating odor. Metal mines (unlike coal mines, which use electrically operated fans) are ventilated by compressed air which travels into the farthest corners at the rate of about 1,000 ft. per sec. Engineers have found that a little odorous liquid injected at the source of the air supply will...
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