Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous ...

No. 12.] Fifth Anthbacite District. 177
Q. You drove this breast up from suggestions you had from this
map?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And you find a mistake now ^
A. A great mistake.
Q. How much of a mistake?
A. About ninety-five feet.
Q. Might not that error be in the angles as well as in the distances?
A. It might be ; I am only saying how I found the gangway.
Q. And you notified Mr. Womelsdorf of water lying in old No. 8?
A. I did.
Q. And you thought there were from forty to fifty feet of solid rock
between No. 11 breast and terminus of gangway of No. 8?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Now, in your opinion, as a matter of fact, did No. 1 1 breast drive
into old No. 8 gangway through that error ?
A. No. 11 breast drove into No. 8 gangway through that error or it
would not have driven in.
Q. And in your judgment that was the cause of these men's deaths?
A. That was the cause of their deaths.
Q. Who placed this pencil sketch on this map ?
A. Mr. Womelsdorf placed it there and showed it to me. Then he
said we had driven our breast into breast No. 6 of No. 8 gangway.
Q. We would like to know who died on account of this accident?
A. Edward Gallagher, breast No. 12 on south side of gangway;
Patrick Kelly, breast No. 11, south side of the gangway; James Ward,
breast No. 9, north side of gangway ; Michael Polish, found in top of
breast No. 9 north side of gangway; Samuel Porter, in breast No. 9 in
the western man way, north side of gangway ; Lawrence Eeed, Henry
Ball, Michael Smith and James Balack, found in breast No. 1 south side
of the southeast gangway; Joseph Orsock, breast No. 1 south side of
southeast gangway ; Bernard McCloskey, found at the junction of the
northeast and southeast gangways, in front of a mine car ; James Griffiths,
found at the same place between cars and pillar; Thomas Geke, found
in the northeast gangway floating on the water.
Caleb Williams, a witness, being sworn, testified as follows:
Q. What is your business ?
A. I am inspector for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company.
Q. What are your duties ?
A. I see that the coal is taken out properly from the mines.
Q. Have you inspected these mines where this accident occurred?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you use any map to govern you?
A. Yes, I have a map. The Lehigh Valley Coal Company furnished it.
Q. Who makes the map ?
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