The Atlanta constitution., 1900-12-03

PLUNGED
TO DEATH

San Francisco, November 29.-Thirteen
people were killed and fully fifty badly
injured by the collapse of the roof of the
Pacific Glass Works. on Fifteenth street.
today. while 1t was crowded with men
and boys watching a football game on
the field adjoining.
Eighty-two persons. more or less in
jured. have been taken to the various
hospitals or removed to their homes.
Most of those killed or injured were boys
between nine and sixteen years of age
Nearly all of the victims had their skulls
fractured or limbs broken and sustained
serious internal injuries.
About seventy-five people fell through
the roof upon the red hot furnaces aud
glass watts below. All were horribly
burned. and 1t IS feared that in addition
10 the nine deaths already reported there
will be several more. The dead are:
William Valencia.
Edgar Flahein.
M. Vandina.
]. A. Mulrooney.
T. j. Rippon.
w. H. Eackfeldt.
Tallyrand Barnwell.
Carmoll Harold.
Frank Nomby.
Four bodies have not been identi-
fled.
The injured are:
Walter Greenfin George c. Miller
George Campbell Arthur Olsen
George Miller George HenScr
Lewis Cooper Fred hartman
John Lane John Houser
L. f. Macauley Theodore Baker
V. Frechtler George Pelle
Jesse Cohen Ed Horns
Clarence Burns James Bowen
Harold Palmer Carrll Harold Palmer
Martin Trahnor Albert Gerke
John Rrough Albert Loux.
Fred Garlty George Morshat
r. e. Essman William Conway
Wm. Hausch W. Granta
Leon Gerard Darcy
John Doyle CttJ Germeistcr
Fred Bewink,e
Two hundred men and boys had gath
cred on the sheet iron roof OF the glass
works to obtain free view of the an
nual football game between Stanford aud
L
minutes after the game had commenced.
there was a crash plainly audible from
the football grounds. and a portion Of
the crowd on the roof went down.
The fires in the furnaces had been start
ed for the first time today, and the watts
were fun of liquid glass 1t was upon
these that the victims fell. Some We're
killed instantly, and others were slowly
roasted to death. The few who missed
the furnaces. together with workmen in
the glass works saved the lives of many
who lay unconscious by pulling them
away from their horrible resting place.
The police and fire department were
soon at hand, and every patrol wagon
and ambulance in the city was sum
moncd They were not enough. and ex
press wagons and private carriages werc
pressed into service to carry off the dead
and wounded. Many of the injured We're
unconscious. while others were hurried
away, shrieking with agony, TO the hos
pitals The Southern Pacific railway hos
pital was only two blocks away, and was
quickly filled. About forty wounded We're
taken there. Others We're sent TO St.
Iukc's hospital ana the CITY Receiving
hospital. To private residences and other
places.
At the hospitals there was soon a short
age of surgeons. and some of the wound
ed had 10 wait until help came. The ROOF
of the glass works was not 200 feet away
from the football field but the 20.Oo0 pe0-
pie watching the game were too interest
ed in the play to notice what had oc-
CURED 1t was only when the ushers
went through the vast crowd calling for
doctors that II became known 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 thou
sands of anxious people quickly assem-
bled.
The manager of the glass works real
lied the danger before the accident oc-
Cured and had sent for the police TO
compel the crowd TO leave. Just as
squad of police arrived from the city hail
the roof went down.