Lee Gee and Young Gow
As part of the Chinese Historical Wrongs Legacy Initiative, we’ve digitized a small selection of inquests and inquiries from 1872 to 1934, found in series GR-0431. These were chosen to reflect the experiences of early Chinese immigrants to B.C. – their living and working conditions, and their unfortunate accidental or unusual deaths. They range from a woman working in a brothel in Barkerville who died of natural causes to three sawmill workers who died from malnutrition. Learn more.
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Harvey Ethebert Mounce(?), locomotive engineer, being sworn saith I started work at 7 PM on 24 Feby 1919. I had a conductor brakeman, Samuel Millar. Our first work was to (?) out no 4 working in coal to no 6 we backed down the (?) track taking out a car as we were short of cars. There were three cars there already. This was about 8:15 PM.after switching the (?) end we came back along the main line pulling The loaded cars up the screen track. We then. Came back down on the lump coal (hack?) and pulled 6 cars to the job yard there was still one car left on the lump coal track, under the shoot - from there one went down to the m and 12 empty coal cars and on that freight car with the pipes and with those to no 4 putting part on the coal hack and the others on the screen hack the west end There were two of us doing this This is not my regular work I am in the round house. From this (?) night pulling the (mens?) cars to and from the mine but this work I was doing this night was a special occasion but I do not as a rule switch the cool cars After we had switched the empty cars, we returned to Cumberland, and coupled on to the (mines coaches?) island there with the two workmens coaches pushing the coaches ahead of the engine in the car next to the engine, I judge there were about 15 men in the car ahead I did not see any on in I did not walk all the way through the head car I then went as far as Chinatown stopping there taking on more workmen from there we (?) to no 4 mine, when I came to the east end switch loading to the coal track, I stopped suddenly Something ahead of me stopped my train. I was not working steam on my engine at the time the train was (?) As soon as I got the shock I immediately (?) the engine