§ Mr. SIMMasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of persons killed in the Levant mine disaster, Cornwall, and the number injured; and had there been 1347W received at any time during the last five years any Report from His Majesty's Inspector of Mines indicating that the arrangements for ascending and descending the shaft of this mine were of such a character that they could not be considered safe?
§ Mr. SHORTTThirty-one workmen were killed and nineteen injured. No report suggesting that the arrangements at the shaft were unsafe was received from any of the inspectors, and according to the verdict given by the jury at the inquest, where the circumstances were most carefully investigated, the accident was due to fatigue of a defective part of the metal in one of the strapping plates, which, I am advised, could not previously have been detected by any external examination. A full Report by the Divisional Inspector of Mines will be ready shortly and will be presented to Parliament.