The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
Part of BIeachers Gave Way In National League Grounds
 at Philadelphia
FALLING TIMERS THROW
 SPECTATORS INTO PAX
Outside the Grounds for an Entire Block Men and Boys Were Writh- ina in Pain-The Field Was
 Like a battle-ground.

Philadelphia, August S-Four persons were killed. twelve were probably fatally injured and 150 others were hurt. some seriously, today at the Philadelphia Ma tional league baseball park. The dead have not been identified.
 The probably fatally injured are:
 Thomas Kane Douglas Mccauley. John Murphy. Peter Barrett Joseph Mvcon- naghy, Joseph McCarrigle, W. Synder. Joseph Larlxin, A. D. Robinson. Lewis Me- Grath, John Radcliffe. Nicholas Moser. Jacob Stein, East Liverpool. O.. was pain fully injured.
 Nearly one hundred persons received fractures of limbs, decorations of the head. broken nose. contusions on the head and body, but their condition is not serious.
 Two games were scheduled between Bos- ton and Philadelphia this afternoon and the attraction drew over 10000 persons to the ball park.
 Accident Due to Quarrel.
 The accident occurred during the fourth inning of the second game and was in directly due to a quarrel between two drunken men in the street The National league stands are built of steel and brick. the brick wall extending entirely around the grounds. At the top of the left field seats And extending from the grandstand to tho end of the bleaehers there was a walk about three feet wide. which oyer hung the street. It was this walk thss gave way under the heavy weight
 Men who were standing on the walk were attracted by a disturbance in the street. They leaned over the side of the railing to see what was the trouble and this drew the attention of other specta- tors. who rushed to the walk to see what was going on below. The walk became overcrowded and two hundred feet of 1t fell to the sidewalk, twenty feet be- low. There were three thousand persons sitting in the left field bleachers and the roar made by the falling timbers caused a panic. The spectators made a rush down the stand and into the field.
 Men and Boys Panc-strlcken.
 Men and boys climbed over one another in an effort to escape and several pers- ons were hurt in the crash. Outside the grounds for an entire block in Fifteenth street. from Huntington to Lehigh ave nue men and boys were writhing in pain. Some were buried under the wreekage, others were lying in the gutters ana dozens were stretched out in fifteenth, street on the car tracks. The 10000 pers- ons within the grounds left the place and crowded about the injured. Ambulan- ces, wreedng wagons and street cars soon carried the injured home or to hos pitals The street was spotted with blood and resembled field of battle.
 An examination of the wall after the accident showed many of the wooden supports, which extended three feet be- vonds the walk, were rotten. They were about two and a half inches thick and about six inches wide They broke off flush with the wall.
 W. J. shettsine. who is in charge of affairs at the grounds in President Pot ters absence, had nothing to say except that there was not the slightest suspicion that the supports were rotten.