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| − | home, and when I returned next day it was caving
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| − | still. The (?) were put through the full
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| − | height of the coal. I expect it would have
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| − | improved the safety of the mine if the dust had
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| − | been watered every day.
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| − | To the Foreman – My partners on the afternoon shift were
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| − | Jonathan (?) and George Biggs.
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| − | To Mr. Roberts – There was not anyone working in shaft
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| − | below me on the third of May. Jonathan Martin
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| − | had been working there
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| − | To the Coroner – The height of the diagonal slope varies.
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| − | At the upper end it is not more than six feet.
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| − | In some places it is twenty feet high. There
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| − | are (?) formed in the roof. Curtains were
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| − | placed where required for the purpose of driving
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| − | the air into the high places
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| − | Taken upon oath and acknowledged
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| − | this 25th day of May in the
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| − | year of Our Lord one thousand
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| − | eight hundred and eighty seven
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| − | before me
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| − | Coroner
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| − | To Mr. Roberts – Joshua Martell miner Nanaimo being
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| − | duly sworn (?); I am a miner and have
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| − | been working as such for twenty two years. I
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| − | was working in the new slope of the number one
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| − | shaft of the Vancouver Coal Company & Works. I
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| − | was working there on the morning of the third of May
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| − | last. I was working in coal about one hundred
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| − | yards from the face of the diagonal and I had
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| − | been working about six months. We
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| − | always had plenty of air – a good current - Our
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| − | BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 4 File 3 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.
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