TWO HOURS OF TERROR

Evening Star, Issue 18640, 22 May 1924, Page 9

TWO HOURS OF TERROR

I CHILDREN'S ORDEAL. i . i | VIGIL WITH FATHER'S BODY. i Unusually pathetic are tho circumstance! of a motoring casualty which occurred uii March 11 in a lonely glen 'of the West Highlands of Scot-land. A father who was riding a motor cyclo with his two children in Uio sido car was killed, and tho little- ones suffered tho ordeal of passing about two hours in utter distraction beside his body miles from any companionship and by night in one of tho wildest parts of tho mountains of Argyllshire. That tho children wero saved from having to endure their appalling plight throughout the night, in which event they would have been, in danger of death from exposure, was duo to the fortuitous civcuinstuneo that a motor-car hirer had an unusual commission requiring hm to drive over tho unfrequented road in the nighl-timo. Otherwise the chances of any tvailic passing before tho following mi-rning would have been exceedingly remote. ,GIRL RETURNING FROM HOLIDAY. Tho victim of tho accident was Mr Geo. Shaw, thirty-eight years of age, a Glasgow contractor. Mr Shaw left Glasgow in tho morning for Oban for tho purpose of j meeting his eldest daughter, aged fourI teen, who had been spending a holiday in I the Hebrides. Ho was accompanied by j another member of the family, a boy of five years. [ Tho party sot out on tho journey to Glasgow immediately after tho steamer arrived at Oban, Mr Shaw telographing to | assure his wife of the girl's safety, and ' iuiimaling that they expected to arrive * In me- abcut 11 o'clock at night. Tho accident happened about 8 o'clock in the evening at a point right in tho heart of the desolate ravine. When driving over a straight stretch of road tho cycle suddenly swerved and struck a sloping rocky face on the left. The two children were thrown out of the side car, the girl receiving a blow on the back of the head and also several bruises on the face. The bov was virtually unhurt. Mr .Shaw stuck to his seat, and was crushed beneath his machine when it r'vorturiH'd. TTn. was killed instantly, his neck being dMooat-'d. the nriumux prostrated. The ehildien, unable to gel any response from their father, were prostrated with fear, ami in this condition they wero found by the motorist. The little boy plculed 'with the rescuer to make room for " baddy " in tho ear, and wa« not consoled urt'il he was assured that his daddy w.i> to In- lakru to lu.^i'to). The ehildic'i we.e kept at Dalmally until tin following day, when they were tak-ri home to bv Captain A. Grant Ma! tlm.v~, an I Mrs ' Matthews, of tho Maryhill Division of tho Salvation Army, with which Mr Shaw was associ it"d. Tho Pa** of Brander is ono of the most desolate p-"ts of the Western Highlands. Ab-ive if tov.c.s Ben Cmeehan, with lower hills rising in sterp,walls of rock; while to the south lies Loch Awe, in perpetual rhadow from tho bio ik encircling hills. It was Lore that Bruce is said to have encountered tho M'Pnugalls of Lorn®. This pass, so singularly forbidding in its surroundings, is regarded by _ many as grimnwr and gloomier in physical aspect than even the more notorious Glonoos.