Reservoir Disaster, Skelmorlie.

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland. – in the House of Commons at on 28 July 1925.

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Photo of Mr Campbell Stephen Mr Campbell Stephen , Glasgow Camlachie

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asked the Lord Advocate if he can now inform the House what steps he intends to take with regard to a prosecution in view of the jury's finding in connection with the bursting of a hillside reservoir at Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, on 18th April, in which they returned a unanimous verdict that five victims were drowned by water which escaped from the lower reservoir at Upper Skelmorlie, and that the accident was materially contributed to by the absence of any regular skilled supervision and inspection of the reservoir?