The Mining industry in Quebec . O •r © o t- © ^ +s 3 _fl 0 u 3O X CO 3 X 0 w V »© 3 oft © M o >-5 § i—i 2 <U © tJ T3 o •g J 1-3 rfj —1 U - oU O -3 O O CO © o o s ^5 CO b0 o <1 3 CO 3 © © . ^! x — S CO ^J 3O co is T3V © J2O© CO ^ X THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 101. I M 3- I -r • n u M ? - - - < < 2 102 MINING OPERATIONS IN 5th March.—At St. Barnabe, county of St. Maurice, WillieLemay, 28 years old, carter for Mr. A. Carrier, contractor, waskilled by a gravel slide. He was working with a companion in a sand-pit when a ratherlarge block of gravel became detached from a height of sevenor
The Mining industry in Quebec . O •r © o t- © ^ +s 3 _fl 0 u 3O X CO 3 X 0 w V »© 3 oft © M o >-5 § i—i 2 <U © tJ T3 o •g J 1-3 rfj —1 U - oU O -3 O O CO © o o s ^5 CO b0 o <1 3 CO 3 © © . ^! x — S CO ^J 3O co is T3V © J2O© CO ^ X THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 101. I M 3- I -r • n u M ? - - - < < 2 102 MINING OPERATIONS IN 5th March.—At St. Barnabe, county of St. Maurice, WillieLemay, 28 years old, carter for Mr. A. Carrier, contractor, waskilled by a gravel slide. He was working with a companion in a sand-pit when a ratherlarge block of gravel became detached from a height of sevenor eight feet and fell on Lemays head. 31st March.—At the Jacobs mine in Thetford, Joseph St-Pierre, 40 years old, a drill-runner, was seriously injured by a cable-derrick box. He died, on the 16th April in the Sherbrooke hospitalthrough a fracture of the spinal column. According to the evidencegiven at the coroners inquest, he was drilling some blocks of rockon a bench some 15 feet from the bottom of the open cast pit,underneath cable-derrick No. 7. When the accident happened hewas working alone in that section; the workmen who loaded theboxes on a contract basis were resting and warming themselves inthe pump building. The derrick had been working durin
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