PLUCKY RESCUE.
MEN WHO CLIMBED TO THE AID OF STEEPLEJACKS. By Telegraph—Press Associtttion-OoDyrieht London, March 2. A King Edward medal of the first-class has teen awarded to. two men named M'Whirter and Midland. While two steeplejacks were fixing a lightning conductor to a chimney at Newmains, Lanarkshire, one was overcome by gas fumes and fainted on a nine-inch scaffold. His colleague tied him: to a plank and then became unconscious. M'Whirter and M'Lelland, who had never climbed a chimney before, ascended, the height being 180 ft., and rescued the steeplejacks, despite'the risk of death from fumes.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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96PLUCKY RESCUE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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