The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-30
ROOF FELL SUDDENLY.
Crowd Was Precipitated Into
the Furnaces Below
Which We're Heated to a Tenn
perature of 500 Degrees.
Skulls Crushed and BackbOnes
Broken in Most Cases.

San Francisco, Nov 3O.-AIore than a
hundred men and boys who were viewing
the observation-disclosures football game
from the roof of an adjoining glass man
ufactory yesterday were suddenly preclpl-
tated into the interior of the building,
many on top of the white hot furnaces
The ventilator annex to the roof, on
which they were perched collapsed under
the strain and, without warning, fourteen
persons were hurled to their death The
injured now being cared for in hospitals
at their homes number s. and OF these
several can not survive The dead are:
EDGAR F,AIRHAVEN. Il years.
W. H. ECKFELDT, Z years.
VIM. vANELCIA, IS years
THOMAS J. RPPON, a years
MARQUIS VAN DURA, IS years. Of
Pasadena
VIRGIL NEUBY, Is years.
CHARLES AIONAHAN, 81 years.
TALLEYRAND BARNwELL. 16 years.
1UNON GIRARD, 16 years
WILL ROTHSTEIN, L years.
ROBERT MILLER, Il years
HECTOR M'NEIL, Is years
MOSES OTTENSTEIN, Is years.
One of the bodies, believed to be J. T.
Mulroney, was also identified as E c.
Putney.
Nearly all of the dead sustained frac-
lures OF the skull or fatal injuries to their
spinal columns. In only few cases was
cause of death, for ready hands quickly
dragged into the open air those who were
in danger Of being burned alive.
Fred F. Lilley, who is among those be-
Ieved to be fatally injured, came to San
Francisco a few weeks ago from New
a number of letters from his father.
firm of J. Richards & Co. dealers in boots
and shoes, 80 and 81 Read street, New
York city.
Charles Yost. oven man of the glass
works, was raking the fire when the
crash came and narrowly escaped being
~ coll F--4E4-
that those killed either struck the heavy
bands that surrounded the glass oven or
them
Many succeeded in staying their descent
beams, but before they could be reached
they were obliged to let go their hold
and drop to the floor. a distance of 45
Clarence Jeter, a furnace tender, pulled
where the heat was about 500 degrees.
The oil pipes were full and the fire did
not go down until they were emptied.
Some of the men and boys were terribly
burned They We're drawn away from the
retorts with long iron pokers used in
While aiding in removing the dead and
wounded L J. Parker, a fireman. found
his own son among those injured. The lad
viii probably die.
The managers of the glass works state
that it was impossible for them TO keen
the people off their buildings They dis
claim all responsibility for the accident
1t is estimated that over three hundred
people were on the ventilator when it col
Iapsed with its entire length of 100 feet
Some were thrown to the main root Of the
building and escaped unhurt. but of those
who 1eL into the structure, nearly all
were either killed or seriously manned.
lsadore Ezekiel, a clerk, was in the sec
ondS story OF the glasSWOrkS when the calau-
1ty occurred Before the accident he heard a
man whom he supposed TO be the super
antendent talking to another man, presum-
aoly an enploye, about calling the police
10 clear the roof The police were all busy
with other work and no assistance could
be obtained.
When the roof section collapsed Ezekiel
rushed to the aid of the men and bows
who fell, but the heat of the glass oven
was so intense that he was unable TO
reach some of them where they were w
Ing partially stunned Mr.. Ezekiel saws
that nobody was under the roof section
that fell and that all who were killed or
injured came down with the roof
ANOTHER DEATH.
san Francisco, Nov. 30.-Another death
has been added to the long list of VIC
TINS Of yesterdays catastrophe John
8rOugh being the name of the dead man
The hospitals. to which the score of vic
tins We're taken after the accident report
that most of the injured are doing well
though 1t is probable that several more
names viii be added to the list of dead
before nightfall.