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| − | Q: Could you get in all the way?
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| − | A: I just got outside the curtain and after I got on my feet I started back to go in when I met the driver coming out with his mule.
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| − | Q: Was the driver a chimaman?
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| − | A: Yes.
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| − | Q: Had he a light with him?
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| − | A: No, he was in the dark.
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| − | Q: Was he provided with a safety lamp?
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| − | A: No, he had an open lamp.
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| − | Q: He came out from the direction of where the explosion occurred?
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| − | A: He came right up the level.
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| − | Q: You acted as shot lighter as well?
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| − | A: Yes.
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| − | Q: How long before the explosion had you fired a shot in that locality?
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| − | A: About an hour and three quarters prior to the explosion.
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| − | Q: Have you made any examination since the explosion?
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| − | A: Yes.
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| − | Q: Have you found anything in the mines which is contrary to the rules to be there, of a dangerous nature, in the second south level?
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| − | A: No, sir; I seen that lamp "B".
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| − | Q: Whereabouts was that?
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| − | A: In No. 5 stall.
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| − | Q: In what condition was it?
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| − | A: Just as it is now.
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| − | Q: There was no top to it?
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| − | A: No the top was there.
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| − | Q: What date was that?
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| − | A: I couldn't be positive; it would be two days after the explosion, I guess.
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| − | Q: Do you know who exhibit "B" belonged to?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Could you say whether it belonged to one of the miners that were working on the 15th?
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| − | A: No, I couldn't possibly say who it belonged to.
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| − | Q: Did you see the lamp the first time you went in after the explosion?
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| − | A: No, you couldn't see anything then.
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| − | Q: Did you search for any lamps? or anything immediately after the explosion?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Did you make any examination immediately after the explosion?
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| − | A: Yes, I went right in 15 or 20 yards from the face of the level.
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| − | Q: Are you able to from any opinion as to where the explosion occurred?
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| − | A: I think the explosion occurred in No. 6 branch, off No. 6 stall.
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| − | Q: Were there any safety lamps found in No. 6 stall?
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| − | A: Yes, lamp "C".
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| − | Q: In the condition that it in in now?
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| − | A: That was under the cave.
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| − | Q: That was found by the side of a chinaman?
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| − | A: I don't know. We got the lamp but I don't know where the chinaman was found.
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| − | Q: Did you find any matches or anything there?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Tobacco or cigarettes?
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| − | A: Yes, I seen box of cigarettes beside that light.
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| − | Q: Do you know to whom they belonged?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: When did you first find them?
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| − | A: I seen the lamp two days after.
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| − | Q: Were they in the stall of any miner that was working?
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| − | A: Yes.
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| − | Q: Did you know the miner that was working?
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| − | A: Yes.
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| − | Q: Did you know the minder that was working there?
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| − | A: Yes, but I don't know his name.
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| − | BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3
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| − | BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.
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