down the Mine, I taking the lead. When I got to the siding where the runners were, I found a Chinaman sitting crying & told him to go away up out of the Mine. I then thought I heard some one moaning down below & went on down to see & found Mathew McDonell & George Brown. I called out to the men who where with me that I had found the injured men. I immediately picked up McDonell & carried him until I met the other man coming who carried him a few yards farther & then said they could not stand it & had to lay him down & proceed to the fresh air. On getting to fresh air two fresh men went down & I returned with them to show them where the men were lying. James McInnes said the would have to lay him down & go to the fresh air & I had only proceeded about 10 yards when I fell unconscious. I remember no more. If a properly qualified man had gone down the mine on the morning of the 15th September the accident could not have occurred. If the

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