The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-06
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in The morning if hey don't bring it back
from work that day. II were to take a
man to recommend for fire boss, or even
something higher than that, l would have
taken Davis He would have been the man
| would have called upon. He had worked
at No. a long time before that and his work
was always satisfactory. The inside people
were competent, too. The man who went in
with Davis was miner. He had a certf.
cate, Tho laborcrs must wait for the miners
ind they are not allowed to go in if the
miners are not there"
as it customary to send man in to ex-
anime place if he has not got a mine boss
certifcate?'
81 was really hunting for fire boss"
"He had no certificate at the time quail
flying him for the position ?"
mo- don't believe he would have taken
a position as fire boss. was paying him
n ore than the fire boss was getting"
Mr. Heaton continued his testimony by
stating, "The Polish man was not up as far as
Davis in the breast He was 10 or 20 feet be-
low Davis according to the place where we
found the hats and lamps. Davis was near
the face when he fired the gas"
During an interval here Mine Inspector
Stein said "The law reads that no man shall
act as fire boss unless he is qualified"
Mr. Heaton said, There would have been
fire boss there providing we had more OF
those places working. 1 can't assign any
raason for ,yae hoin,, tbara +h,t ,,,o,,;,.. I
don't think it necessary to have fire boss
whether you have one or fifty places working.
When you have man like Jake Davis you
would let il go as ! did. lie was as practical
as any man in the mine. The men never
found any gas there, although the coal is of
that nature which makes gas. l have been
under the impression that there was part of
the manway down. After the explosion we
found part of it down.
James Tempest was next called. He
testified to a conversation Mr.. Heaton and
Davis had in the mines and also a statement
Davis made after the accident: ION the
morning that we started Mr.. Heaton came up
there and said, Jake, you made very good
chief, now l want you to take charge of these
people, Jake said, Il was paid for being
chief and Mr.. Heaton said, You will get
paid for being boss, that he meant for being
in charge. Then he took Jake down and
told him what to do. As far as fire boss was
concerned he never mentioned it, There
never was any gas there. One morning the
man that got caught with Jake said there
was some, but l showed him there was noue.
Alter the accident Jake told me that he told
William to stay back with the lamp He
said, 4 to William to stay back and he had
the lamp l asked him where the safety
lamp was and he said it was on the gangway.
| said, My God, Jake, what could you see
without a lightT"
The other witnesses examined were George
Goodavage, William Bainbridge, William
Partt, Anthony Hardy, George Hardy,
Martin Liscavage, Samuel Broome, William
Morrison and W. J. Watkins. The latter was
called to testify to conversation had after
the accident with Davis in which DAVIS said
he left the naked lamps with Dugel and told
him to remain below, bat Dugel insisted in
going up The breast and the ezplosi fol
lowed.
The other witnesses testified that they had
been in the workings several times and
found no gas there Parfit said the hats and
lamps owned by Davis and Dugal were
found in the breast after the explosion. The
hats were about nine feet apart. The hat
and lamp farthest up the breast belonged to
Davis, who was farther up then they were.
Davis lamp was about so or 60 feet from the
face. His hat was lower down.
Anthony Hardy, a Lithuanian having a
contract in the plane section, testified that
Ougel said af er the accident, ~ told Jake to
take the safety lamp before he went up the
breast but he wouldn't do it, He said ne was
in the place yesterday and there was no gas
there"