REMARKABLE ESCAPE AT A FIRE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1210, 8 May 1885, Page 3

REMARKABLE ESCAPE AT A FIRE.

Txutherg en Bridge Mills a cotton

Hi read manufactory, si; Hated-at Glasgow, has been burnt to the ground Th fire broke out shortly after three o’clock, and the work peop'e, ab »ut 200 in number, were all in the works at the time. The flames spread with gr-at rapi dty, and, though there were ample means of exit, a panic ensued among the workers. \ number of the women m i e their escape by the wins (lows on the fourth and dth stories, reaching the ground by means of lad.ders, which were re dily availa de. Several of Hie girls slipped and fell lo the ground in the excitement of the moment, but none were seriously in jured. Whde tbe (ire was at its height an into se sensation was caused among tbe crowd of onlookers by one of the w li-kmen emerging from a skylight on the r of of one of the sec; ions of the mill. The building was enveloped in domes, and there was no means of escape through the interior With the utmost coolness the man nailed a piece of leather belting to the inside of the window, and, throwing the end over the roof, began to descend. The dunes were bo idling frmn the window ; th " leather belt snapped, and the man fell from the height of four s’oreys. He fell, however, into a tank of water and escaped unhurt. The mill was one of the oldest in Glasgow.