Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

A six-year-old boy Donald Macintosh drowns in Eglinton Dock

From "The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald" dated Friday 17th May 1895

CHILD DROWNED
On Monday evening a little boy named Donald Macintosh, aged six years, son of Donald Macintosh, Restaurateur, Princes Street, Ardrossan, fell into the tidal basin of the Eglinton Dock, near the lock gates, and was drowned.
The little fellow was accompanied by a playfellow about his own age, who ran off in a panic when the accident occurred.
The alarm was given by a newsboy, who was passing at the time, and saw the body floating in the water.
John Campbell, carter, put off in a small boat, and picked up the body and brought it ashore.
Dr. Nicol, Locum Tenens to Dr. MacDonald, was called, and artificial means of respiration resorted to, but life was found to be extinct.