SCAFFOLDING TRAGEDY
I 4. ' FALL IN BUSY STREET PEDESTRIANS RUN TO SAFETY When 'scaffolding erected over Buchanan street, a main Glasgow thoroughfare, suddenly collapsed, one man was killed and two others were injured, while many pedestrians narrowly escaped being struck. The dead man was Thomas McQuillan, aged 38, of Possilpark. Glasgow. The two injured are John Quinn, aged 37. and James Young, aged 60. McQuillan anjj Quinn were working at a height of 25 feet on scaffolding suspended by metal tubes. The scaffolding gave way without warning, and the two men crashed to the street, falling on top of Young, who was walking by. Rescuers quickly cleared the debris from the injured men. who were removed to the Glasgow Infirmary, where McQuillan died a few hodr.s later. Young suffered from a fractured skull and serious internal injuries. A woman carrying her child, who had been looking into a shop window directly beneath the scaffolding had a narrow escape when she walked into a shop' doorway just before the accident. 1.. . * ‘ ■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23529, 18 June 1938, Page 32
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