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| A: It is quite a way off the return airway. | | A: It is quite a way off the return airway. |
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− | Q: You know that there is a rule where coal is worked with safety lamps, no other light shall be used in the same ventilating district. Now was this ventilating light used in the same ventilating district where the safety lamps were required to be used? | + | Q: |
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− | A: It was used in the same district, but with lots of fresh air in the level; lots of it.
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− | Q: It was in the same district?
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− | A: It was in the same district.
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− | Q: Was it used between where the safety lamps are used and the return airway?
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− | A: NO, on the lower side of the safety lamps.
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− | Q: Were you through the second south level that day?
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− | A: Between 10 and 11 O'Clock sometime, but I couldn't tell the exact time.
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− | Q: Did you detect gas?
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− | A: I got a little gas in the level and I gave instructions to Harry King to take a little corner off that was keeping the air away from this little cavity in the roof, and I understand, as you will find later on, that that corner was taken off and the gas went away. There was a little gas in No.7 in the hollow of that cave.
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− | Q: Did you make any test? A: Yes Sir.
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− | Q: What did you do?
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− | A: I put up my safety lamp.
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− | Q: How high did you raise your safety lamp?
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− | A: With six inches of the roof.
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− | Q: Was there enough to cause you alarm?
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− | A: Not to amount to much, nothing to cause any alarm. In fact I have no hesitation in saying that I could have gone in there with a naked light on my head , and walked and walked from one to the other the same day.
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− | Q: How far did you go into the mine that day?
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− | A: I went in after I met Mr. Matthews coming, and up, and as soon as we got the curtains put up difficulty in getting around the places.
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