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| − | G. Lippiatt, miner. Sworn:-
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| − | By Mr. Potts:- Did you insist on the rescue of the miners in No. 6 mine on the evening of July 15th?
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| − | A: I did.
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| − | Q: What time?
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| − | A: About 8 o'clock.
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| − | Q: In what capacity?
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| − | A: I was assisting the rescue party.
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| − | Q: Did you make any search?
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| − | A: I did.
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| − | Q: Where did you search?
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| − | A: Along the face of the workings.
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| − | Q: What for?
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| − | A: For bodies in particular.
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| − | Q: Did you find anything other than bodies in the mine? That is anything that was a source of danger?
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| − | A: The place was full of gas.
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| − | Q: Where?
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| − | A: All along the face of the workings, the first time we attempted to get in.
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| − | Q: Did you find any open safety lamps?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Pit lamps?
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| − | A: I found six or seven safety lamps, but they were all locked. I found one pit lamp down on the level; I think it was opposite No. 6 stall; it was right on the same level.
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| − | Q: Is that on the return airway?
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| − | A: No, it was on the in-take. It looked to me as if it hadn't been used; it was an old lamp lying there; it looked as if it hadn't been in use for sometime.
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| − | Q: Where did you find it?
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| − | A: Right on the level. There was a little wall of bog built up there, and it was set upon this wall of gob at the side of the level.
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| − | Q: Was that anywhere near the explosion occurred?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Did you find anything else?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Any powder?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: Matches?
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| − | A: No.
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| − | Q: How was the ventilation when you were there?
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| − | A: First class.
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| − | Q: Are you able to form any opinion as to the cause of the explosion?
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| − | A: Well, I couldn't exactly say. I believe it was caused by carelessness on the part of the Chinamen; that it what my opinion was.
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| − | Q: What makes you think so?
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| − | A: Well there was a gas explosion, and the gas had to be ignited. They were all working with safety lamps. The gas must have been ignited by a blaze, but it might have been caused by a defective lamp.
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| − | Q: It might have been?
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| − | A: It might have been.
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| − | Q: It must have been caused either by the carelessness of a Chinaman or by a defective lamp?
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| − | A: Either one or the other. It seems to me there was a big body of gas coming off there, and I am satisfied the explosion occurred in the neighborhood of No. 6, between 6 and seven. I rather think there must have been a big body of gas coming off.
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| − | Q: How many years experience have you had as a miner?
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| − | A: I've worked in a coal mine since I was 15 years old - about 13 years' experience off and on.
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| − | Q: Did you examine the place where the cave in occurred?
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| − | A: No, I couldn't very well examine it. We came to the cave and had to go round to the next stall.
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| − | BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3
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| − | BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.
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