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Chung Chi

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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BC Archives GR-0431

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J: Don't you think the crack extended quite a distance above that? A: That I couldn't tell

J: You could see it was longer? A: I couldn't say. [If?] that cave was brake further up or not; it is a very shaly roof, and the slips may be in this direction

J: It might be longer & you not know it? A: Yes.

J: About this exhibit "A", I think you said something like this, that that lamp in your opinion would have caused the explosion if there had been volume of gas there?

A: I said if the glass of the lamp had been broken before the accumulation of gas took place, then in my opinion that would have caused the explosion. I don't think it did cause it, although there was that likelihood that it would

J: You don't say that that lamp did cause the explosion? A: I don't, but it might have done it.

J: How do you account for this Exhibit "A" being separated from the other part of the lamp? A: When we found that lamp first of all the other part of the lamp was there beside it. Today it is not there, and where it is I can't tell you.

J: Would the man who had these lamps in [charge?] give us any information with regard to that lamp, whether it went into the mine separately or apart? A: It never went down the mine like that; that's a certainty

By a Juror:- What is the usual procedure when gas is [?] in a mine, the same as it is in that book? A: The usual procedure is, if the men are working with naked lights, they are given safety lamps. The fireman, when there is gas in a place where a man is working, doesn't fire any shots in that place, but tells the man to get out the

BC Archives GR-0431 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Box 6 File 3 / Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.

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