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POKFULAM PUMPING STATION TRAGEDY.
INQUIRY INTO STORM CRASH.
both are covered with a consider- able amount of earth and there are trees on the top...
Obscure Cause of Fall," Therefore it was one of the two boulders lying side by side at the top of the quarry faco?~
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You have satisfied yourself that must have had a considerable amount of earth above it? Yes..
During the morning of July. 19 some 18 inches of rain fell, which as
Evidence given at the opening of the inquiry yesterday into the deaths of the four coolies who were killed at the Pokfulam Pump-it ing Station by the fall of a boulder weighing several thousand tons disclosed the extraordinary nature of the collapse and made it difficult to understand the boulder's fall
we all know is phenomenal. Was there any sign of a water track coming down on this bould- The boulder,
ground slopes which was er-No. The adjacent to another one, was back down from each side of the from the cliff edge, on a wide boulder. There are channels and ledge, and the opinion. was exstream courses on either side."
It is dificult to understand why. pressed that it must have turned over and then crashed' down the this boulder did fall?-It is. Thi hillside, its deflection by a-rock water might have got in and soak- causing it to strike the pumpinged underneath, but it might have station.
taken years to do that. The
It was stated that there was no boulder formed the apex of a evidence of a wash-out underneathsmali, watershed,
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the boulder. The surface support- From your abservations after ing it had probably been weaken the collapse you would have ing for several years, and its fall thought that the water would have was possibly not solely caused by drained off on either side?--Yeu. the storm on July 19.
Opening the inquiry, Mr. Lind- sell said it concerned the death of four coolies, ut. the Pokfulám' Pumping Station on the morning of July 19 after the deluge which fell upon the Colony on the night
of the 18th.
More Than One Stone?
You can only imagine that the water must have percolated be-
tween the twin boulders and loos- ened the earth underneath until it gave way? Yes. There is no
evidence of a wash-out below the boulder. The surface supporting
it may have been weakening för several years.
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Witness added that he did not think it was caused by just one storm.
Mr. Lindsell: In your opinión could such a collapse have been either forescen or provided against?I don't think it could. The top and both ends were cover-
As the jury no doubt knew, a large boulder high up on the hill- side. above the station came down and partly wrecked, the station. It would be for them to determine whether this was an act of God which could not have been provid- ed against, or whether common intelligence and foresight might have seen that the boulder was ir a dangerous position and taken steps to prevent its fall.
Medical evidence WAS given From your personal knowledge which showed that the bodies, of the quarry face can you say when recovered, were terribly whether there were any signs of mutilated.
undue projection at the top?-I don't think there were. The boulder was set back a consider- able distance from the edge of the slope. It came from the back of the ledge.
Mr. C. J. Tacchi, Inspector of Works, P. W. D said he lived in quarters just above the pump ing station and a little to the west. When the boulder fell it practically "demolished the cast end of the pumping station and eventually rested almost un top of the large pump. One of the store rooms was, completely wrecked and another partly demolished.
Not Considered Unsafe. Police arrived shortly after nine o'clock and during the courac of the day three bodies were re- covered.
Mr. Lindsell: As Inspector of Works "you are in charge of the station?-Yes.
Did it ever occur to you that any projection on the cliff was únsafe? No.
Do you know how that cliff, that
sheer descent, camo to be made?--I can't say.
Witness added that he thought an attempt had been minde to use It as a stone quarry, but this was
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Then there was an almost level ledge between it and the quarry face. How wide was that ledge?
About twenty feet.
That makes the collapse all the more extraordinary?-Yes, and the quarry face is not sheer but sloped.
Is there any inspection' by your Department of dangerous, slopes of this kind behind buildings in the Colony ?-Yes, if there is any particular dangerous spot sus- peeted. The Building Ordinance officers keep an eye on all private cuttings, and if they notice any- thing in the course of their visits they would report it at once if they considered there was danger.
Would that be done with new cuttings?-Yes, new and old if they were in the vicinity. They would not within his personal knowledge.not go to the face of the Peak to
Old Quarry Site.
Mr. R. S. Vergette, Inspector of Works under the Building Or dinance Offee, P. W. D., said that he had been able to trace two attempts for getting stone out of the vicinity, but not out of the particular area where the boulder fell down.
Mr. Lindeell: There is a quarry at the back of Pokfulam Road pumping station?-Yes. It is an
look for things.
Track Still Visible. Witness added that no special examination of boulders on the hillsides was made unless special notice was brought to them. The boulder which fell measured about 60 x 40 x 18 feet and weighed several thousand tons..
In reply to further questions, witness said he visited the scene for the first time yesterday morn-
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1926.
old one and not used now. ing, and at that time the track of don't think it has been used for the boulder was still clear, there twenty years. It appears on the being marks on the slope. records as not having been worked Engineers inspected the scene on for at least twelve years,
the day of the fall. Witness added that there were
Mr. Lindsell: The course of the as having a two attempts in connection, with boulder is shown
Can you explain why. the quarry, but neither affected bend in it. the particular alte. They were the boulder turned to the left? at a much lower level, rear the-It struck a bank of rocks about netor house of the pumping half way down and this caused it station. Permits were issued in to turn aside. 1917 and 1919 and if any, stone was removed it was taken practic- ally from the alte of the station itself. None was taken from the hillside.
Two Boulders Together. Mr. Lindsell: On that site at the rear of the station there must have been a large quarry?-Yes, a very large one, and probably used in connection with the building of the Belchers fort.
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The foremah of the jury naked whether the boulder projected over the top of the cliff face and hardly Mr. Vergette Bald he thought It ́possible it would pro- ! Ject there. If it did it was a very small projection.
Jury To Visit Scene. In reply to other questions, he said that without excavation it was impossible to tell that the rock was not just one big boulder. In answer to another question, he sald he thought the boulder must have turned over."
How high is the face there at the highest point?-At least 200 feet above the pumping station.
And the boulder came down Mr. Lindsell said he though it from the highest point? Yes. was desirable that PW. D. en- Are there many boulders pro-gineers who visited the scene Just Jecting from that face?-There is aftor the collapse should be call one at the same spot where this ed.. It must be difficult for Mr. one fell down It was a sort of Vergette to form an opinion, after twin boulder. Then there are an intervál., some lower down as well.
The Coroner also asked if the Frior to the collapse did you ever Government had paid any compen visit the top of the face and soe aation to dependents of the coolles. those twin boulders?—No.
who were killed. Mr. Tacchi. re- Is there any access to the face?plied that the matter was now be There is from the conduit, buting adjuste
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Mr. Lindsell intimated that he proposed to visit the scene of the can be put into operation at short accident with the jury, and ad- notice in the event of a coal short- journed the inquiry..