Noble, Robert, aged 24, Quarryman, A charge of about 30 lbs. of gunpowder had been inserted in a fissure in the rock, and the deceased men had just lit the fuse when the charge exploded. Probably some grains of loose powder at the edge of the fissure were ignited and the charge thereby fired, or this may have been done by sparks from the burning fuse

Tiffen, Robert, aged 26, Quarryman, A charge of about 30 lbs. of gunpowder had been inserted in a fissure in the rock, and the deceased men had just lit the fuse when the charge exploded. Probably some grains of loose powder at the edge of the fissure were ignited and the charge thereby fired, or this may have been done by sparks from the burning fuse

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