Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-01
SEVENTEEN IRE DEAD and
ALL HOSPITALS IRE FULL.
THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE
SAN FRANCISCO GLASS WORKS
GROWS WORSE.
FIVE MORE DIED YESTERDAY
FIVE OTHERS WHO ARE NOT EX-
PECTED TO LIVE MORE THAN
FEW HOURS.

Four persons injured in the glass
works accident yesterday, died this
morning, making the total number of
dead seventeen. Several more of the
injured will die. About the morgue
to-day there have been crowds of
anxious inquirers, relatives and friends
of those who are known to have been
victims of the accident The dead have
all been identified.
Until all the dead shall have been
viewed by the coroner's jury, no bodies
can be taken away from the morgue.
All of the hospitals are crowded
with the manned anu injured and a
large staff of physicians and nurses
is at WORK
Following is.a revised list of the
dead:
John Brough, aged 10.
Robert Harrison, Is, son of an at
torney of opeka, Kans.
Lawrence Mel, school boy.
Talleyrand Barnewell, aged Is.
H. Eckfeldt, aged II.
Edgar D. Flaven, aged Is.
Leon Girard, aged II.
Charles Monaghan, aged 81.
Hector, Mcneil, aged Is.
Robert Miller, aged Is.
M,,1r
Spokane, Washn.
Virgil Newly, aged is.
William Rotherstein, aged Is.
Thomas J. Rippon, aged "a.
Mekke Van Dyk, known as Mark
Won Nura, miner, recently from Nome,
aged 46.
William Valencia, aged Is.
Dante Monaco, aged IS.
The name of E. C. Putney is given
by morning paper in the list of dead,
but the morgue has no record OF the
death.
Robert Harrison, enc of the dead,
was the son of Thomas A. Harrison, a
prominent attorney or Topeka, Kans.
He ran away from home with a boy
companion.
Cornelius Mcmahon, aged - years, died
at the City and County Hospital tonight,
making the eighteenth victim of the ac-
cident. His skull was fractured by his
fall from the roof of the glass works.
OF the ninety or more injured, all are
doing well with the exception of five, who
are not expected to live more than - few
hours longer. their injuries having been
pronounced fatal They are:
Ellery Crandan 10 years of age.
Charles Henry Cummings, 10.
Edward Duggan, Is.
Fred F. Lilly, q.
Thomas c. Peddler, 25
Fred F. Lilly, who is among those be-
lieved to be fatally injured. came to San
Francisco a few weeks ago from New
York city. Among his effects We're found
a number of letters from his father,
Henry Lilly, who is connected with a
firm of boot and shoe dealers at 80 and 81
Reade street. New York city.
Chas. Yost ovenman of the glass works,
and narrowly escaped being struck by the
falling bodies. He says that those killed
either struck the heavy bends that sur
round the glass oven, or were crushed by
those who fell on top of them.
Clarence Jeter, a furnace tender, pulled
eight people off the top of the retorts
where the heat was about 500 degrees
Some of the men and boys were terribly
burned. They were drawn away from the
retorts with long iron pokers used in
testing the glass.
While aiding in removing the dead and
wounded, T. J. Parker, a fireman, found
his own son among those injured The
lad will probably die.
The managers of the glass works state
that it was impossible for them to keep
the people off their buildings.