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- Barrhead News Friday Jan 2, 1920
Alarming Fire in Neilston
Early on Friday morning last, fire was discovered to have broken out in the tenement at 6 Factory Street Neilston. It is a block of 4 single apartment houses and was fully occupied. Information was conveyed to the Police office, and the fire brigade was summoned. Meantime Constable McTavish had the tenants warned out and most of them found refuge in the houses of neighbours with little more in their possession than the clothing they wore. Much alarm was naturally created in the district and this was intensified when it became known that 2 men were still in one of the houses round which the fire was raging. The constable unable to obtain entrance otherwise broke one of the windows, and entered the apartment, which was full of smoke and he found both men much overcome and one of them severely burned. With assistance he had them conveyed to the Police Office where they were seen by Dr Pride. The Paisley ambulance van was phoned for, and in it both men were conveyed to the Royal Alexandria Infirmary. There names are James McGourlick, the tenant and Wm McElhutton, a visitor. The latter died later in the day.
The Brigade confined the fire to the tenement which was almost destroyed, the damage being estimated at about £400. The origin of the outbreak is not known.
Barrhead News Friday Jan9 1920
Deaths
HUTTON: Suddenly at the Royal Alexandria Infirmary, Paisley on the 26th December, William Hutton, Kirkton Mill, Neilston, in his 50th year.
Acknowledgements
Mrs Hutton and family return(?) their sincere thanks to all friends and neighbours, also workers at Kirktonfield Works for their kind expressions of sympathy and floral tributes in their sad and recent bereavement. Kirkton Mill Neilston
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