The age-herald., 1900-11-30
Fell on Furnaces and Vats of
 Liquid Glass
A vERITABLE DISSENT INTO HELL
Crowd of Men and Boys Had Gathered to Obtain Free View of Foot ball Game-The Sicken-
 ing Scene.

San Francisco, November 29.-Thirteen persons were killed and eighty-two badly injured by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works on Fifteenth street, to- day while it was crowded with men and boys watching football game on the field adjoining.
 About 100 people fell through the roof up- on the red hot furnaces and glass vats be- low. All were horribly burned, and it is feared that in addition to the nine deaths already reported, there will be several more. The dead
 William Valencia
 Edgar Flaherin.
 M. VandinA.
 J. A. Mulrooney.
 Thomas k, Rippon.
 W. H. .Sckfeldt.
 Tallyrand Barnwell
 Carmel Harold.
 Frank Nomby.
 Four bodies have not been identified. The injured: Walter Greenfin. George Campbell, George Miller, Lewis Cooper, John Lane I. F. McAuley, M. Freichter, Jesse Cohen, Clarence Burns, Harold Palm er Martin Trahnor, John Brough, Frederick Leon Gerard, John Doyle, Fred B. Wrinkle, George c. Miller, Arthur Otseen, George Henser Fred Hartman, John Houser, The odore Baker, George Pelle, Ed Horn James Bowen, Carrll Harold Palmer, Albert Clerk, Albert Lewis, George Morslhat, Will liam Conway - Darcey, W. Grant, Otto Bermister
 Eighty-two persons more or less injured have been taken 10 the various hospitals or removed to their homes. Most of those killed or injured were bays between and 16 years of age. Nearly all of the victims had their skulls fractured or limbs broken and sustained serious internal injuries.
 Roof Collapsed.
 Two hundred men and boys had gathered on the sheet iroA of the glass works to obtain a free view of the annual football game between Stanford and University of California About twenty minutes after the game had commenced there was a crash plainly audible from the football grounds and a portion of the crowd on the roof went down.
 The fires in the furnaces had been started for the first time today, and the vats were full of liquid glass. It was upon these that the victims fell. Some were killed and oth- CTS were slowly roasted to death The few who missed the furnaces together with workmen in the glass works saved the lives of many who iay unconscious by pulling them away from their horrible resting place.
 The police and fire department were soon at hand and every patrol wagon and ambulance in the city was summoned. They were not enough and express wag- ons and private carriages were pressed in- to service to carry off the dead and wound ed; many of the injured were unconscious, while others were hurried away, shrieking with agony, to the hospitals.
 Taken to Hospital.
 The Southern Pacific Railway Hospital was only two blocks away and was quickly filed About forty wounded were taken there. Others were sent to St. Luke's Hos pital and the city receiving hospital, to private residences and other places. At the hospitals there was soon shortage of surgeons and some of the wounded had to wait until help came The roof of the glass works was not 200 feet away from the football feld but the 10000 people washing the game were too interested in the same to notice what had occurred. It was only when the ushers went through the vast crowd calling for doctors that 1t became known there had been an accident. Hundreds of people left the grounds ana gathered about the fence enclosing the glass works News of the disaster spread and thousands of anxious people quickly assembled.
 The manager of the glass works realized