Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-04-11
THENIY0HE PEOPLE KILLED ARE HORSES CQNTROBAND?
HUNDREDS WERE INJURED.
During a Football Game at Glasgow
Part of the Grandstand Collapsed
People Fell 90 Feet-PiIed six
Feet Deep-75,oOO People Saw the
Game.

Glasgow, April 6.-The struggle o
the crowds at hex park Saturday t,
witness the last international associa
ton football contest between team
from England and Scotland, caused tn,
collapse of a portion of one of tn,
/ spectators terraces, resulting in tn,
death of five persons and the injur,
Of 125 others, 20 of whom will prob
ably die
When the game began $4,000 specta
tors were on the ground, and the i'm
mense crowd had gathered outside
Being unable to obtain admittance
this crowd broke down some of the
barriers and swarmed upon the field
whereupon the police charged and
drove the intruders back upon the ter
races and seats, with the result that
the ratings dividing the crowds were
broken and people were thrown over
each other.
In the frantic struggle toward the
exits. the pressure toward the upper
portion of the westerly terrace was so
great that hundred feet of the high
est of the structures collapsed under
the weight of the crowd driven upon
1t. precipitating the mass of people to
the ground, 60 feet below. The in
jured were piled In heaps, wedged in
with broken wood.
The onlookers hesitated to approach
the dangling structure at first. but
finally began to utilize portions of the
broken barriers as stretchers. A hun
dred of the more seriously injured
were carried to the pavilion and to
spaces clear of the stands.
A majority of the victims are suffer
ing from broken ribs and fractured
limbs, while some sustained internal
injuries. Those most severely hurt
were later removed in ambulances to
inflrmaries, and the lesser sufferers
were sent in cabs to surgeries
A few persons were trampled upon
in trying to escape from the crush
when the police charged. But most
of the victims sustained their injuries
in the fall of the stand.
Up to midnight five deaths had been
reported as a result of the accident,
while in the case of 20 of the other
victims all hope of recovery has been
abandoned.
An investigation into the causes of
the disaster shows that the breakdown
of the structure had begun before it
was subjected to its severest strain,
and 1t is now believed that the final
collapse was caused more directly by
the efforts of those nearest the first
break to escape than by the additional
weight OF those who rushed upon the
stand from below. The terrace, al
though supported by iron Orders,
swayed and cracked ominously under
the movements of it's frantic occu-
pants.
The fallen portion is 100 feet long,
80 feet wide and contained IL tiers of
seats. The injured, in many cases,
were lying five or six deep, and it is
marvellous that there were
not more fatalities. One man hung by
his boot, which had caught in a splint-
cred beam, head downward, about so
feet from the ground. Finally his boot
gave way and the man dropped into
sheet held below.
The strangest feature of the affair
Is that the crowd in the other part of |
the grounds failed entirely to realize
the extent of the disaster, and the |
game was played to finish, resulting
IN draw. Even the management ap-
peared to be unaware of the serious |
ness Of the accident until 1t was an
nounced after the conclusion of the |
game.
The disaster has resulted in the /
Heath Of 81 persons and the injury of
300. Nearly 200 of the latter are so
seriously hurt that they were taken
o inf1rmaries for operation and treat
nent. One hundred and fifty of them
IT'LL remain in the infirmaries. A
arge proportion of the injured had
limbs broken, bodies crushed and
nangled and heads will undoubtedly
esult from the critical cases of frac-
ured skulls.
Today the infrmaries were besieged
" friends and relatives of the victims
4 the disaster. and heartrending
Genes were witnessed when the
James Of those who died today were
'osted outside the buildings. The
ctions of the authorities at Ibrox
ark in averting a panic by permitting
he game to proceed while they en-
outraged the impression of the crowd
Tithin the enclosure that the accident
'as not so direful is now generally
The incongruity Of the yells of ap-
lause mingling with the groans of the
sufferers will never be for
often by those who witnessed the
Gene at the rear Of the terrace.