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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930.

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CORONER'S INQUIRY INTO'

COOLIES' DEATHS.

"

SALE OF STEAM- LAUNCH.

CHARACTERISED BY POOR

BIDDING.

Mr. Lindsell, sitting as Coro- Poor bidding characterised the sale ner, with a jury composed of by public anction of the steam-launch Mesars, A. Wheeler, K. S. Smith Sun Chlu On at the sales room of and Tsang In-fook, opened an in-afternoon.

Mesars. Hughes and Hough yesterday quiry at the Central Magistracy

With the upset price at $2,900, the yesterday afternoon into the cir-faunch attracted only three bida before. cumstances aurrounding the being knocked down to Mr. Lam Yiu- deaths of four coolies who were chung, of No. 132 Bonham Strand killed on the morning of June 28 East, for $3,200. when a derrick collapsed on the fourth floor of Gloucester Build ing.

The Sun Chiu On, which WAS formerly the Fes Ting, has a gross tonnage of 38.48. and a nett ton- nage of 24.81. She is 72.6 feet long, In opening the Inquiry Mr. 13.8 feet broad and 0.6 feet deep. Lindsell said that it was being

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held into the accident at Glouces‐|

ter Building when four workmen was being hoisted at about, 10) were killed. It was the duty of o'clock, Ho did not witness the the jury to decide whether any actual accident, but hearing body was criminally or otherwise cracking 'noise, 111 to Ree

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the platform, and to make any re-that three of the planks which commendations in regard to simi-supported the derrick had broken lar work in the future.

and had fallen to the ground, with

Dr. Grieves, who held a post- the stanchion also on the ground. mortem examination on the body The derrick was hanging in the of Tang Kin, said that he had a air by means of the wire ropes. compound fracture of the base of Four of his men were lying in- the skull and other injuries,jured on the ground. They were

All unconscious. The Buch as

accident dislocation of limbs. There was a rupture of the brala occurred about 10 a.m., and the The injuries were caused as a re-ambulance arrived about 11 a.m. sult of a fall from a height,

The Collapse.

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After the accident he did not inspect how it had been caused.

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have tion of the derrick. The men,

Ed Ye Lec, the Chinese sub-con-He eventually went up on July tractor, said that his work com-12nd. By that time, however, an- prised the erection of the whole other derrick had been hoisted, steel structure. The deceased, the old derrick being put out of Tang Kin, was one

of his men.[use. The girders were hoisted up to the fourth floor by means of a crune. The derrick was supplied three of your men killed, and yet who knew all about it, were dead. by him, and it was hoisted on you say that you did not go up On the morning of 28th, ult. he June 26th. The foot of the der-and see how the accident had was at work with a gang of six to be hoisting & stanchion up. That rick was supported on five planks been caused? You ought

The stanchion laid criss-cross on the steel work. ashamed of yourself. It is a dis- was about 9 a.m.

was hoisted up successfully. They The top was held in position by grace. wire ropes, and it was also se-

Witness, continuing, said that were engaged in hoisting a second cured at the foot by wire ropes. the foot of the derrick must have curred. He was standing on the stanchion, when the accident oc- He did not superintend the erec-slipped, probably due to the plank steel work about 30 feet away tion of the derrick. The planks underneath it slipping. The plank

He was not same men who undertook the erec-

at the foot of the derrick were 20 must have been rotten. He did from the derrick at the time it slipped and fell, breaking the to 40 feet long; 12 Inches broad not examine the bottom of the planks, which also fell to the and 4 inches thick. They were derrick after the accident. The ground. The planks were not supplied by another man, but he new derrick was erected by the secured to the steel-work. supplied the ropes. responsible for the erection of the tion of the old' derrick. If the The hearing of further evidence derrick, but he named two other stanchion on the way up knocked was fixed for Wednesday, at 2.15 men, one of whom was Chan Yun. against the derrick, it would not|p.m.. These two men had done jobs of have caused it to slip out of its this kind on this particular build- position. · ing.

had

;

Coolie's Evidence.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.

THERAPION NË3

On June 26th the derrick was

THERAPION NË.. Chan Yun, a coolie, said that heHERAPION NO.2 in use. He was present when it collapsed on the morning of June

three years' experience in 29th about 10 o'clock. The firet was engaged in hoisting up the steel framework building. He stanchion had been hoisted about 9 a.m., and the accident oederrick to the fourth curred when the second atanchion was not responsible for the erec-

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