Philadelphia Paper - The Carbonic Acid Gas Process at the Kehley Run Colliery Fire

The failure of the carbonic acid gas method at the Kehley Run Colliery has given rise to a conviction of the inefficienoy of the process ; but a careful survey of the facts, and of the conditions under which it was tried, mill show that a fair trial of the method was not and could not be made at this colliery; its failure in this particular instance therefore, should not be held as evidence against, the process. In itself, thc method seems to be theoretically perfect, but in prac-