Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-30
NINE KILLED AND
FIFTY INJURED.
A Terrible Disaster to Witnesses
Of a Football Game.
A LARGE NUMBER BURNED.
seventy-avo People Fall Through Roof
Upon Red Hot Furnaces and Watts of the
Pacific Gus Works at San Francisco
Some We're Killed Instantly and Others
Were Slowly Roasted to Death Romov-
afof Dead and wounded Shortage of
Surgeons.

(By Telegraph to Ylrglnian- Pilot.)
San Francisco, Cal, Nov. 29.-Nine
people were killed and fully fifty bad
ly injured by the collapse of the roof
of the Pacific Glass Works. OH Fiji
tcenth street. to-day while it was
crowded with men and boys watching
O football game on the. field adjoining
About seventy-fivc people fell through
the roof upon the red hot furnaces and
glass vats below. All were horribly
burned. and it is feared that in addi-
ton TO the deaths already reported
there Will be several more.
THE DEAD.
The dead are:
j. a. Mulrooney, w. II. Eckfedt Ed
gar Flahe, Il. j. nippon. William Va
lencia, NJ. Vandinu and three unidenti-
fled.
200 PEOPLE ON ROOF.
/. Two hundred men and boys had
gathered on the sheet-iron roof OF the
glass works to obtain Il clear view of
The annual football game between
Stanford and University OF California.
About twenty minutes after the game
had commenced there was crash.
plainly audible from the football
on tho roof went down.
ROASTED TO DEATH.
The fires IN the furnaces had been
started for the first time to-day and
the vnts 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.
together with workmen In the glass
.ltr ltt.aS. f,Fr lNt,,, ANIL
Ing them away from their horrible
resting place.
REMOVING DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The police and fire departments were
soon ut hand ana every patrol wagon
and ambulance in the city was sum-
moned. They were not enough ana ex-
press wagons and private carriages
were pressed into service TO carry off
the dead and the 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. Lukes hospital
and the city receiving hospital. to pri
vate residences and other places.
SHORTAGE OF SURGEONS.
At the hospitals there was soon a
shortage OF surgeons and some OF the
wounded had to wait until holm cnne
THE roof of tbo rloss works voe nor
ono feet avvav froTn tho cootbou nold
but the 20, 600 people watching the game
were too Interested In tho game to no
ticn what bad bonnnned II wos o,,iv
when tbc usbers Vent through tho vost
crowd caIIinn for doctors thot II be-
came known tbot there had hoen an
accident hundreds of neonIe Icft the
grounds and gathered about the fence
nj md fl,.aer In N-nt Nn,t-c fNrt l,n
disaster sDread rapidlv and thousands
OF anxious people ouiclllv nsscmb,ed
The police kent them back with diff
culty. while the patrol wagons md am
bulances dashed through tho crowd on
their way To and from the hospltals.
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Aai1 'i'i iHN
San Francisco, Nov. 30. i5 a.