eighteen feet. It was in an [illegible] thirteen fab?. The [illegible] ???? have not always been ten feet. The are not if? an uniform height. The are nine feet inside?. The distance? between the slope and the [illegible] slope is about ten yards. The [illegible] of the [illegible]???ter slope slopes to the counter slope the [illegible] of the [illegible]???ter slope being [illegible] than the slope. The [illegible] is brought up wear? [illegible] face. There was no chance of any gas collecting in the counter slope [deleted]of[/deleted] [illegible] the opening of the cross cut. The air was down the slope and then [illegible] the [illegible] out and up the counter slope.

Taken upon [??th] and a acknowledged this 25th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven before m. | Saml Hague

[illegible] W???? m ?????? Coroner

To Mr Eberts

William Griffiths, Miner Nanaimo? being duly sworn said: I am a practical miner and work for the Vancouver Coal Company. I am a partner of Samuel Hague and [illegible] with him in the same place. I was working in the [illegible] cut that day. Have heard the incidence?? of Hague and corroborate what he says. There was good ventilation and no cause of complaint. It was not over ventilated. It was not [illegible] in the face. I have no idea as what? cause of this explosion. I have been mining for thirty three years and have been working in [illegible] slope twenty two months. I have mined in England. When I came first I started timbering? in number two level? and then I worked it timbering? in the old slopes. I first worked in the face of the new slope on January tenth. I have never encountered a "[illegible]" in this mine. I have seen feeders? I have seen the efforts of