The news & observer., 1900-11-30
THIRTEEN WERE KILLED
About Eighty Three Others Were Hor-
ribly Burned,
THEY WERE WATCHING AFooTBALL GAME
The Roof Gave Way Under the Crowds Weight
ard seyenfy.FNe Plunged Down Upon
The Furnaces and Va's Cf
LIQUID Glass.
lBy the Associated Press.l

San Francisco, Cal, Nov. 29.-Thirteen
people were killed and hundred in
jured by the collapse of the roof of the
Pacific Glass Works on Fifteenth street
today, while it was crowded with men
and boys watching football game on the
pie fell through the roof upon the red
hot furnaces and glass vats below. Most
were horribly burned and it is feared
that in addition to the deaths already re-
ported there will be several more. The
dead are:
j. A. MULROONEY.
w. H. ECKFELDT.
EDGAR FLAHEIN.
T. ]. PIPPON.
WILLIAM VALENCIA.
M. VANDINA.
Three unidentified.
TALLYRAND BARNWELL.
CARROLL HAROLD.
FRANK NEWLY.
FOX
Two hundred men and boys had gather
cd on the sheet iron roof of the glass
WORKS 10 obtain 4 clear view of the an
nual football game between Stanford and
the University of California. About
twenty minutes after the game had com
menced there was a crash. plainly audible
in the football grounds, and a portion OF
the crowd on the roof went down.
The fires N the furnaces had been
started for the first time today. and the
vats were full of liquid glass. 1t was
upon these that the victims fell. Some
were killed instantly and others were
slowly roasted to death. The few who
missed the furnaces rolled off and to-
gether with workmen jim the glass works
saved the lives of many by pulling them
away from their horrible resting place.
The police and fire departments we .,
soon at hand and every patrol wagon and
ambulance in the city was summoned.
They were not enough and express wagons
and private carriages were pressed into
service to carry off the dead and wounded.
Many of the injured were unconscious
while others were hurried, shrieking with
agony, to the hospitals. The Southern
Pacific Railway Hospital, only two blocks
away, was quickly filled. About forty
wounded were taken there. Others were
sent to st. Luke's Hospital and the city
receiving hospital to private residences
was soon a shortage of surgeons and
some of the wounded had to wait until
help came.
The roof Of the glass works was not
200 feet away from the football field. but
the twenty thousand people watching the
game were too interested in the game to
notice what had happened 1t was only
when the ushers went through the vast
crowd calling for doctors that it became
known that there had been an accident.
Hundreds of people left the grounds and
gathered about the fence enclosing the
glass works. News OF the disaster spread
rapidly and thousands of anxious people
quickly assembled The police kept them
back with difficulty, while the patrol wag-
ons and ambulances dashed through the
crowd on their way to and from the hos
Ditals.
Eighty-two persons, more or less in
jured, have been taken to the various hos
pitals or removed to their homes. Most
Of those killed or injured were boys be-
| tween nine and sixteen years of age.
| Nearly all of the victims had their skulls
| fractured or limbs broken and sustained
serious internal injuries. The portion OF
| the roof which collapsed was merely the
covering over the ventilator bars at the
| apex of the building and was not con-
/ structed to sustain any heavy weight
The horizontal timbers in the center
corresponding to the ridge hole of an or
| dinary structure. broke near the center
and the light framework underneath
with its covering of corrugated iron, turn
| ed inward. forming chute through which
the men and boys were precipitated into
| the furnaces beneath. Only few were ac-
| tually burned to death, the majority be-
| ing killed by the fall. Several of those
| injured are in precarious condition, and
| the list OF dead may be increased to a
| score within day or two number
who we're only slightly hurt went to
their homes, unasssted. Including these
the list of injured may be put at 100.
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