Two Die, 318 Hurt In Fire
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) GLASGOW, June 12. A 33-year-old man and his 16-montb-old daughter were burnt to death and 318 people injured today when fire swept through a north Glasgow tenement building. George Edgar Sheerin and his daughter, Jean Ray Sheerin, died after the family’s top-floor flat burst into flames. The fire was discovered by the dead man’s wife, Mrs Annie Sheerin, who fled from the flat shouting for help. A neighbour, Joseph McCabe, aged 35, climbed nearly 30 feet up a drainpipe to rescue John Sheerin, aged four. McCabe, who suffered burns, was taken to hospital. It is not yet known how the fire started. ,
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 8
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