Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-12-11
DIE In MOLTEN GLASS.
BlSASTER CAUSES THE DEATH
OF THIRTEEN BOYS.
Over OueHundred Persons Injured and
Many of Them Fatally Roof of Fac
tory Overlooking Football Game Coll
Iapses Scene of Terrible Suffering.

The collapse Of the roof of glass fac
tory in San Francisco from vlucha large
number of people were watching foot
ball game between Leland Stanford and
the University of California, caused the
death of thirteen people aid serious in
juries to nearly 100 others, several of
whom are fatally injured aud many 9TH
ers will be manned for life These who
were injured fell into the furnaces and
seething gIasspots below and tst.ise t9r-
ture was suffered in many instances.
About ~twenty minutes after the game
had commenced, and without any warn
ing c9yner Of the roof collapsed, carry
ing with 1T in its fall all those who had
been standing thereupon. Luckily the
whole roof did not give way or the disas-
ter would have been even more fearful.
As it was at least 200 fell into the interior
of the works. and a few more in the rush
that ensued in the other portion OF the
place to set down We're hurled TO the
ground
The portion of the roof which cohaps-
ed was Che covering over the ventilator
bars at TIE apex of the building and was
not constructed to sustain any heavy
weight. The horizontal timbers in the
center, corresponding to the ridge pole
of an ordinary structure, broke near the
center, and the light framework nader
meath, with its covering of corrugated
iron, turned inward, I, rming a CHUTE
through which the mel and boys We're
precipitated into the furnaces beneath.
Most of those killed OF injured We're
boys between and 16 years of age,
Nearly all of the Victims had their skulls
fractured or limbs broken am sustained
serious internal injuries.
The factory has been shat down for
some months and for the first time the
fires in tie furnaces had been relighted
and i'll all the watts glass in its various
forms was being melted and refined.
Into these seething pots of molten matter
the victims of the accident were hurled,
some being bodily cast into the fires, 9TH
ers falling into watts where the matter
was glowing, and still others being incin-
Grated by falling into those huge pots
where the glass, seething and bubbling,
was being purified. Some of these We're
killed instantly and others were roasted
slowly to death, their position being such
that help could not be given them.
The few who were so fortunate as to
escape death by the furnaces suffered in
juries by falling upon piles of glass Stag
with sharp, Jagged edges. which lay by
the sides Of the watts, or by falling upon
the floor and, stunned by the shock, be-
ing scorched and burned by their proxim-
ity to the intense heat. Seldom has an
accident happened wherein the victims
who were not killed have been subjected
to such tortures, and the cries of those
who in their helplessness and the inabil-
ity Of those TO succor them We're being
burned to death were piteous to hear.
To add to the terrible calamity the
falling of the timbers into the fires set
the building ablaze. The fire was not put
out until the greater part of the factory
had been consumed.