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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whilst I was assisting and attending to the Chinaman one had died in the position in the car. I could see nothing happening, I could see her from my experience of judge of speed Between four and 5 miles, an hour was the rate the train was traveling, there was ample space for me to walk between the coaches and the cars on the screen track. RH Robertson Joseph Shaw Coroner
Charlie Sing Chong having sworn as Interpreter Lee Key saith my name is Lee Key. I was on the leading coach the one farthest from the engine sitting down in the middle of the car. I saw the two men that were injured in the accident sitting at the farther end of the car. I was sitting in the center of the car near the stove looking towards the head of the car. The two China men that were injured were sitting in the second seat from the head end of the car facing towards the head and the end door of the car was shot, after the accident I saw the two men lying one I thought was dead the other on in our fate, I did not speak to them, I identify the two bodies as being those of Lee Gee and Young Gow. Lee Key Joseph Shaw Coroner
Dr George K McNaughton having swarm read his report upon the dead, China man who died from the result of the accident at no 4 coal mine on 24 February 1919 which is herewith attached