Chung Chi
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Q: Were pit lamps used in any other portion of the mine?
A: In No.4 Incline, naked lights were used.
Q: What was the condition of the mine the day of the explosion, wet or dry?
A: It was wet around that section.
Mr, Pooley: - Are both those lamps "A" and "C" locked? or were locked when found?
A: They were both locked when found.
Q: Was that hole in the roof that was referred to by Mr. Potts, there before or after the explosion? Was that big hole there before or after the explosion?
A: Well, the one that he mentioned about the gas being in, and reported in the report book, was there before the explosion.
Q: How big a hole was that?
A: Probably about four feet wide and may be two and a half to 3 feet high.
Q: In a dangerous place?
A: No.
Q: The roof after the explosion was about 25 feet high?
A: Yes, but not in the same place.
Mr. Hall:- Were those 7 Chinese burnt sometime ago, burnt on this same level?
A: What do you mean about "some time ago"?
Q: About six months ago?
A: I couldn't tell.
Mr. Matthews:- They were burnt on the north side.
Mr. Hall:- Are you altogether sure that that hole was four feet wide?
A: Is is there to-day to be seen, and it is no higher now than it was then.
Q: Don't you think the crack extended quote a distance above that?
A: That I couldn't tell.
Q: You could see it was larger?
A: I couldn't say. If that cave was broke further up or not, it is a very shaly roof, and the slips may be in this direction.
Q: It might be larger and you not know?
A: Yes.
Q: About this exhibit "A". I think you said something like this, that that lamp in your opinion would have caused the explosion if there had been a volume of gas there?
A: I said if the glass of that lamp had been broken before the accumulation of gas took place, then in my opinion that would have caused an explosion. I don't think it did cause it, although there was that likelihood that it would.