The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-30
Roof Collapsed With Spectators o
Annual Football Game.
SLOWLY ROASTED TO DEATH
Some Meet Death Instantly. While
O,bers Suffered E,xcrutiatinS Pain.
seyenty-Fise Persons Fell from
Roof III lscu Hot Furnaces anu
yats of Liquid Glass ana all
Were Horribly Burned.
CBy Associated Press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Nov. 29-Ihir-
taen ,aopre were killed and fully fifty DAD
u. fninred by the collapse OF the roof OF the
Pacific Glass Works. on fifteenth street
TO-DAY. while it WIS crowded with men
and bows watching a footbaii game on t1's
field adjoining.
About seveuty-tive people fell through
tns. roof upon the red hot furnaces anu
glass watts below. All were ii., liiots
burned. and It is feared that IN aduil'o., a,
to the deaths already reported, there WIZ
be several more.
THE DEAD.
The dead are: J. A. Mu!roony. w. H..
EckfeIdt, Edgar Ftahein, L. }. kipoh,
William Valencia, NJ. V;1ndana' Ia-'ss
and Bamwell, Carroll Harold, FRANK F1S"
ly, and Fox.
Two hundred men and Boys had Satheteo
on the sheet-irCn roof of the g.ass WORKS
to o5tilin clear view OF the annual ioos
ball game between Stanford ana the S.lt-
yersitv of California. About twenty nl4n-
ls,es after the game had commenced there
was A crash p.ainly audible from tue
football grounds, and portion OF the
crowd on the roof went down.
ROASTED TO DEATH
The fires IL the furnaces hau pesti ss-
started for the first time to-day ana uis
vars were full OF liquid glass 1t was
mon ms taat the Victims feis. some
were klt.ed instantly and others were
slowly roasted TO death. The lew VINO
m ssed the furnaces rolled of, 2ifa 10
-ether with worikmen in the Sts.ss WORKS
saved the lives of many by putL.ns them
away from thEic horriote resting p.%1Ges-
The police and ire department were
soon at hand and every patrol wagon ana
,zirS
They were not enough, anu express
wtlgons and private carriages We're press
ed into service TO carry off the dead ana
the wounded Many of the injured We're
unconscious. while others were huti'eu'
snriehing with agony, TO the hospltaa5.
The Southern Pacific Railway Hosp.t&t'
onfv two blocks away, was quickly ns!eit.
aI;ciaT fortv wounded were taken there.
L Others were sent to ST. Luke's Hospital,
and the city receiving hospital to private
residences and other places
SHORTAGE OF SURGEONS.
At the hc.pitals there was soon Snort
rse OF surgeons, and some OF the wound
ed had TO wait until help came
The rc0s OF the g.ass factory was VI
2G1 feet away from the football held. but
the twenty thousand people watching the
game were too interested in the game TO
notice what had happened 1t wills 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 srounds and
gathered about the fence enclosing the
g.ass works. News of the disaster
spread rapidly. and thousands Of anxious
people quickly assembled. The police
kept them back with difficulty, while the
patrol wagons and amuuianees dashed
throustl the crowd on their way to and
from the hospitals.
Eighty-two persons, more or less in
iured. have been taken TO the various
hospitals 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 Mmos broken, and sustained
serious internal injuries