LAMENTABLE RAILWAY COLLISION AT GREENOCK - SHUNTER KILLED

During the dense fog this morning a distressing accident ocurred near the Albert Harbour Goods station of the Glasgow and South Western Railway, by which a shunter in the passenger department named Thomas Beaton was instantanously deprived of life. The particulars are as follows:- Beaton, after partaking of breakfast left his house at No 3 York St, about nine o'clock, to start his work as usual. On reaching the railway crossing at the foot of Ker Street he saw an engine ready to go up the bank for the upper shed, and he jumped on the buffers in front. This engine had hardly proceeded fifty yards up the bank or hill when it was run into by another engine, which was coming down on the same line of rails. Beaton, who was caught between the buffers of both engines, had his ribs broken, and sustained other sever injuries which resulted in his immediate death. The unfortunate man was carried into the railway hut close by, and Dr. Cairns sent for, but on arrival the doctor could only pronounce life to be extinct. Deceased was about forty years of age, and has left a widow and six of a family, for whom the greatest sympathy is felt in their sudden and sad bereavement. It may be added that the force of the collision also upset and smashed one of the railway waggons, but the line was cleared in the course of an hour.

Greenock Telegraph 29.10.1891

About one o'clock yesterday afternoon a lad named Thomas Beaton, belonging to Greenock, was drowned under distressing circumstances in Largs Bay. He was employed on the yacht Cora, and along with the Captain, he. at the time stated entered the water from the vessel to bathe. After swimming about for a little, the captain returned to the Cora, and commenced dressing. While doing so he noticed that Beaton was in difficulties. he threw a lifebouy and then a rope, but the lad failed to catch either. Jumping into the dingy the captain pulled towards him, but Beaton sank before the boat reached the spot. The body was recovered two hours later. The lad it seems, was unable to swim, and had been warned against bathing from the yacht. He was much respected among his yachtmen, and this was his second season with the Cora. He belonged to the Royal Naval Reserve, and when in Greenock resided with his stepfather, Mr Robert Menzies, at 34 West Shaw Street.

Greenock Telegraph 18.8.1901

About ten o'clock this forenoon the body of a plater, name Robert McKechnie was discovered lying in the hold of a vessel in course of construction in the shipbuilding yard of construction in the shipbuilding yard of Messrs Scott & Co., Main Street. In the earlier part of the morning Mckechnie had been working at the cargo ports at the side of the vessel, and it is thought that while in search of some article he accidently fell through the ballast-tank hatch into the hold, a distance of eighteen feet. The accident was apparently not observed by anyone, and by the time the discovery was made, the unfortunate man had succumbed to the injuries received, which were principally about the head. Deceased, who was married, resided in Port Glasgow.

Greenock Telegraph 15.1 1895