Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-12-08
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
At A FOOTBALL GAME
Thirteen Persons Killed and Fifty
Badly Hurt in San
Francisco.
FELL ON RED HOT FURNACES
Had Gathered on Top os Glass Works
and the Roof Col~iapsed-List OF
the Dead and Seriously
Injured.

jured by the collapse or the roor OF the
Pacific glassworks, on Fifteenth street,
Thursday, while 1t was crowded with
men and boys watching a football game
on the field adjoining.
About seventy-five people fell through
the roof upon the red hot furnaces and
glass watts below. All were horribly
burned, and 1t is feared that In add
ton to the thirteen deaths already re-
ported there will be several more.
The dead:
]. MULROONEY.
w. Fl. ECKFELDT.
EDGAR FLAHEIN.
r. J. RIPPON.
WIN. VALENCIA.
M. VANDINA.
TALLYRAND BARNWELL.
CARROLL HAROLD.
FRANK NEWLY.
FOUR BODIES; have not been iden'
tilted.
The injured:
Walter Greenfin.
George Campbell.
George Miller.
Lewis Cooper.
John Lane.
/. E. McAuley.
". Frechtler.
Jesse Cohen.
Clarence Burns
Harold Palmer.
Martin Traynor.
John Brough.
Fred Garity.
r. r. Resman.
NJ. Hausch.
Leon Gerard.
+. Freedmen.
John Doyle.
Fred 3. Wrinkle.
George G. Miller.
Arthur Olsen.
George Henser.
Fred Hartman.
John Houser.
Theo. Baker.
George Pelle.
Ed Horns.
James Bowen.
Carroll Harold Palmer.
Albert Merme.
George Campbell.
Albert LouX.
George Morshat.
VIM. Conway.
- Darcy.
w. Grant.
Otto Bermeister.
Fell on Fiery Furnaces.
Two hundred men and boys had
gathered on the roo OF the glassworks
to obtain a free view of the annual
football game between Leland Stanford
and University of California. About
twenty minutes after the game had
commenced there was a crash plainly
audible from the football grounds, and
n portion OF the crowd on the roof went
down.
The fires in the furnaces had been
started for the first time yesterday and
the watts were full of liquid glass. IL
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 on, ana
together with h orkme or the
glassworks,, saved the lives OF many
who lay unconscious by pulling then
away from their horrible resting place
The police and fire departments were
soon at hand and every patrol wager
and ambulance in the city was sum
moned. They were not enough n eX
press wagons and private carriage
were pressed into service to carry of
the dead and wounded, many Of the In
tured were unconscious, while other
were hurried, shrieking with agony, t
the hospital.
The Southern Pacific railway hospita
was only two blocks ava and wa
QUICKLY Diltus Sbouh w "SNiN~
were sent to st. Luke's hospital am
the city receiving hospital to privat,
residences and other places.
At the hospitals there was soon
shortage of surgeons n some of tn
wounded had to wait until help came.
Continued Playing.
The roof of the glasswoTks was no
200 feet away from the football field
but the 10000 people watching tn
game were too interested In the contes
to notice what had occurred. 1t wa
only when the ushers went through tn
vast crowd calling for doctors that
became known there had been an acct
dent. Hundreds of people left tn
grounds, and gathered about the fenc
enclosing the glass works. News Of tn
disaster spread rapidly and thousand
OF anxious people quickly assembled
The police kept them back with diff
Guilty, while the patrol & and am
balances dashed through the crowd o
their way to and from the hospital.
Eighty-two persons, more or less In
tured, have been taken to the variou
hospitals or removed TO their homes.
Several of those injured are in a pre-
carious condition, and the list of dea
may be increased to a score within
day or two. Including those slight
injured, the list OF wounded may be pr
at 100.