When the tower fell, a brother of a victim was working below and watched his brother falling, cut in two and still fastened with a safety belt to a piece of steel.
1971 TV tower collapse survivor shares story (presspubs.com) SHOREVIEW — Don Barnard, 77, is the only survivor left from the Shoreview TV tower collapse that left seven workers dead on Sept. 7, 1971, 45 years ago.