Arizona republican., 1903-08-09
DEADLY BALL GAME
Scores Killed and Injured on Philadelphia Grounds
Fight in the Street Aroused a Fatal Curiosity and the Platform of the Grand Stand Gave Away.

Philadelphia, Pa.. August S.-Four persons are dead. at least twelve are thought to be fatally injured and fully l5O others are hurt, some seriously, the result of an accident which occurred today al the National league baseball park. boardwalk which overhung the leftfield bleachers fell to the street, carrying POO spectators with it.
 The dead identified are:
 EDWARD GRAHAM
 ALFRED RODGERS.
 EDWARD WILLIAMSON, aged 60.
 The following are thought to be fla tally injured:
 |. Thomas Kas.a. 34 years ol6, fractured skull.
 Douglass McCaulley, fractured skull. internal injuries.
 John Murphy. years old, fractured skull.
 Peter Barrett. fractured skull. Joseph McGarrgle, F, both ankles broken, internal injuries Joseph McConaghy, fractured skull. w. s. Snyder, 2S, both legs broken, spinal injuries.
 Joseph Larkin, 12. internal injuries ! A. D. Robinson, S1, concussion of the brain.
 Lewis McGrath, 30, fractured skull arm and leg broken. i John Radcliffe, A. fractured skull
 Nicholas Moser. II, internal injuries l Nearly one hundred persons received l fractures of limbs. lacerations of the head. broken noses. contusions of the head and body, but their condition is not serious.
 | Two games were scheduled between Boston and Philadelphia this afternoon, | and the attraction drew over 10000 per sons to the ball park. The accident occurred at 5:40 o'clock while the Bos- i ton team was at the bat in it's half Of the fourth inning of the second game and was indirectly due to a quarrel | between two drunken men in the street The National league stands are built of steel and brick. the brick wall ex- tending entirely around the grounds. At the top of the leftfield seats and ex- | tending from the grandStand to the end of the bleachers there was walk about ! three feet wide which overhung the street. It was this walk that gave way under the heavy weight. l Men who were standing on the walk were attracted to q disturbance in the street They leaned over the side of
 
 and this drew the attention of other spectators seated on the top rows of the bleachers. Then occurred with what is seen almost every day at a ball game, a rush to see what the other spectators were looking at. The walk became overcroWded and without q moments warning 200 feet of it fell to the sidewalk twenty feet below, carry ing all who were on it.
 There were probably 5000 persons sit ting on the leftfield bleachers and the roar made by falling timbers created a panic instantly. Spectators rose e1 masse and made a rush down the stand and into the field. Not knowing what had occurred the ball players and otk- CTS tried to stop the mad rush, but they were swept aside and several persons were badly hurt.
 Outside the grounds the scene was one of horror. For an entire block on Fifteenth street. from Huntington street to Lehigh avenue, men and boys were lying writhing in agony. Some |; were buried under the wreckage oth- CTS were lying in gutters, and dozens were stretched out in Fifteenth street on the car tracks. Some were uncon- ; scious, others rolling over suffering . great pain, and others attempting to get up and walk only to fall again.
 A general ambulance call was sent out. All the houses in the vicinity were open to the victims. One of the
 largest street-car barns in the city Is situated across the street from the bal park. and one wrecking car was quick , ly filled with the helpless men and l rushed to St. Josephs hospital. more than two miles away. Other victims were placed in wagons of all kinds be- longing to the car company and taken
 to hospitals. Nearly every injured per son taken away was covered with blood . It is estimated that fully a hundred 7 persons who were injured went direct to their homes.