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| − | Stall gave off a good deal of gas but we worked
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| − | with naked lights. Joe Fox was my partner on
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| − | the morning shift. (?) Hay and John
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| − | Miles worked on the afternoon shift. I saw the
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| − | two last at the top of the shaft about to go down on
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| − | Third of May last. They were both killed.
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| − | The gas in my stall was carried off by a strong
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| − | Current of air and it was not dangerous
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| − | so long as that current existed. The height
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| − | of the diagonal slope varied. The height of my stall which
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| − | was all coal was about twenty feet. The height varied in the
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| − | slope the coal not being all (?) (?) in some places. It
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| − | was very dry and dusty down in my stall. So it was in the
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| − | slope. With regard to “blowing out” shots I corroborate
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| − | what (Name?) has said. The distance of the flame
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| − | of a “blowing out” shot would depend upon circumstances. It
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| − | might extend ten feet or more. In (?) then it was
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| − | about as dry as usual. The coal was of a dry and
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| − | dusty nature but did not (?) very much in the (timbers)
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| − | After a shot the dust would float in the air very thickly.
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| − | I have known men in other mines to be (?) by “blowing
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| − | out” shots extending to a great distance the shots having
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| − | extended in flame further then they thought they would.
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| − | My stall extended in about fifteen yards from the
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| − | diagonal slope. The air always (?) through any
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| − | shaft pretty well but the gas would occasionally collect
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| − | in the roof. The fireman would notify us of its presence
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| − | and we would remain outside until he got the gas out
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| − | and notified us to that effect. I have never
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| − | been compelled to stop work from the presence of gas
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| − | but have sometimes been compelled wait thirty minutes
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| − | at the beginning of a shift to have the stall cleared
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| − | We used naked lights. There was nothing particular in
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| − | regards to gas on the third of May. The fireman
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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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