The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-11
issued: 1911-01-05
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note: CLASSIFIED ADS I CENT A WORD -^-UL, %> EIGHT PAQES- 50 CENTS A MONTH VOL.9 NELSON, B. C, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5. 1911 NO. 222 MIHASTER Coroner's Enquiry Into Belle- vue Explosion FOUND MATCHES ON DEAD MINERS Doctor Ascribes Death Monoxide Gas—Condition of Mine to BELLEVUE, Alta., (via Hillcrest, Alta., Jan. 4—The morning session of the second Inquest Into the Bellevue mine disaster on Dec. 9 that cost 31 lives, opened at 9:45 o'clock. The first witness examined was Dr. Malcolmson, who repeated substantially his evidence given at the first inquest, regarding the appearance of the bodies of the dead miners, giving his opinion that they had died from carbon monoxide gas poisoning. He described the difference between arterial and venous blood, and though subjected to a searching cross- examination by Mr. Mackle, still maintained that it was his opinion that these men came to their death from the effects of carbon monoxide gas. Drs. Oass and Mackay followed Dr. Malcolmson, corroborating his evidence in all material points. Mr. iMackle, counsel for the miners, read medical standard works, to show that the only real teat as to death by monoxide was by actual analysis of the blood. Night-watchman's Evidence. The evidence of Alsop, the night watchman at the Bellevue mine, was moat important, bringing in the fact that he had assisted in washing the bodies of the three miners whose bodies had been brought out on Saturday night after the explosion, and that the face and hands of two of them were burnt, and that matches, tobacco and a pipe-had been found in the pockets of one of them, and matches in that of an* other. Alson seemed en', unwilling witness, and'it good deal of time was'consumed in an effort of Mr. Campbell to get a positive statement as to the Injuries upon the hands and faces of these two men being the effects of burns. The first tilt between counsel occurred when Mr. Mackie asked the company to produce these matches, pipe and tobacco. Mr. Woods, counsel for …
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0383706
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text