FALL WITH GIRDER
DOGMAN'S CLOSE CALL
ESCAPE WITH INJURIES
(Received 18th January, 11 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
■William Thomson, 29, a dogman, had a remarkable escape from death ■when a girder slipped from a steel sling a hundred feet up. He clung desper> ately to it. The. girder caught the framework of the building after falling thirty feet, and. a second girder fell on Thomson, pinning him to the first. His mates levered the second girder from his body, and it crashed seventy •feet below. Thomson was taken to hospital with an injured hip and suffering from severe shock.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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99FALL WITH GIRDER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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