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| − | Q: If his hands and face were burnt, which I think can be proven, how do you account for his being out of the area in which the law says a person must not be with a naked light?
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| − | Q: Of course I am a greenhorn and would like to know. I am simply seeking for information and these things may be easily explained?
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| − | A: Well, I'll tell you and I think you will be satisfied. The flame travels some distance, for half a mile in some mines. Now, that mule was standing evidently at the bottom of No.6 or No.5, and the level is say five and a half feet high, leading off from the level. The mule was standing there just as I say. I examined him next day, and I found he is burnt a certain height, which is the very height of the entrance from the main level. He has a mark from about six inches above his nose all along down the back part showing that the flame came down the stall and all along that side where the mule was standing heading outwards as the mules all are. You will see that the flame came down the level and burnt the mule on the level, for for it is impossible for a mule to go into the stalls. It is an absolute certainty that the man and the mule got burnt there, This man was likely sitting on a board there, a nice comfortable seat, I can assure you, and it is because he was sitting there that he got burnt. He was sitting down, must have been sitting down, because the mule was not burnt at the top of his head. just own place along the side, like a high water mark. If that man had been standing his face would not have been burnt probably.
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