The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 30, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME ]‘XXX\'III-;NO. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LLED 1 \ m;‘ 4\' [‘ DEATH REAPS A DREAD HARVEST OF LIVES AND PLUNGES CITY INTO GLOOM 78 INJURED Three Hundred Men and Boys Are Hurled Headlong Through the Roof of the 5San Francisco and Pacific Glass Works Down Upon aFurnace 3 m\.u. \ g corrugat cisco and P; n the fi 1 th e ball had jus when with sound o; As rrifying in every de- reat game between n at the Rec- nth and Folsom usands of men k noticed nth ‘and *h. | The The parhw ans he blue and gold brilliant banners, eld. gesticulating in the een tossed into the f rumbling thunder ity upon it disap- t beings had shot he blazing furnace w. The shrieks 'gs could not be of those who were ithin the inclosure he great game was | tremendous volume the roof upor which the band of men and pe there was the | boys were stationed gave way and the . 1 across | black mass of humanj g el men and | peared like a flash of darkness into light. ted down to death. It was, T hundred human accident that rough the roof to t - nty feet bel te bel feith ve the cheers = € the game w « Park. Ti eround the place where the dread accid was playl Hundreds of i siasm, with were roasting Their clothing was abl with the terrible pouring upon their bod! the floor with their b skulls crushed, their while the cheers were cent park. Poor fled from (hv place rmation at the various hospi- the city’s house of the dead. ongs gathered around the va- als Jong before the stretchers des he wounded, the dying, and, in | above the concrete fi ances, the dead, arrived. Emer- to the Fire De- the police; physicians from every part of the ancisco closed the day was to give its' thanksgiv- | ence in the dread of death | the gloom of despair, intensified by | Wken the dreadful | were sent ness had not deprived t t and tc The scene was a vel guish. These men and nty w.ole had match. They fes had been placed m. ng ray at the Morgue, = and ministers of God had sald their | of the glase works. ng sad havoc with- ne’s Lerow of where there was en- life and the excitement which contentment. to death upon the 10t surface of the terrible furnace. aze and thelr flesh was scorching until the alr was permeated odor. Boiling oil was They lay upon ones Lrokem, their life " flashing out, sounding from the crea‘ures ‘hung in fes. peration upon broken brams fifty feet oor. Below them were human bodies piled in a heap, writh- ing in the torture of whict unconscious- hem. The descend- ing mass of humanity had twisted the iron stanchions of the furnace and had ' broken the boards of the platforms. ritable hell of an- boys had come to their terrible injury and death through | 1d, when disfigured, mu- | their desire to see the great intercolleglate | furnace blazing In thelr faces, laboring to forced their way They' had climbed | ! as he ran he looked behind and saw the | were prostrate upon the white-hot cover- | ing of the furnace, and then pandemonium when | i through the gates of the large inclosure | cmnpl!tlnx the torture of a turmyln.; iast words of comfort over dying men ‘u\el‘ the fences. It is said that they had |, u;'u ' (M (CRUEEUTIR =l ! ‘(\‘Mh diMl‘ T wfiwm N L“"'““mm ‘lu' ‘ M/'li |h /! ’I"{ 'I (/] I\ I ,, wu T //!'/Il’// T ”W/ '(WW o d ’ W [ 'iyf /7 /{fl / l 2 = // m’v:muln m l | !z\, — ¢ after going to their death, but the police, what they deemeq to be a thorough in- vestigation e unable to prove that any one id mc for the right to enter the inc e an cend to the roof. These men and boys went into ‘(]u inclosure !'.k-" The buildings are not yet hed. Ad- joining that in which the acc nt hap- | pened fs an incompleted structure which has not yet more prop works h 1 no « d be admitted within this in- clom When this impetuous mob i into the place the man r and dent of building warned # , cautioned them of the danger which they were rushing headlong stood at the door with an iron bar, | atening to strike the first man who | red Pleadings, warnings and Intimidations were in vain. ‘The crowds rushed up the fire escapes. Men and boys climbed lad ders. They swung planks from the incom- ‘ plete building to the cumpleted structure and rushed pell-mell on to the corrugated iron roof of the building which in a few moments was to beconie a house of death. The manager of the place, utterly un- able to control the crowd that came upon | him, hastened away to seek the assistance of the police. He knew the dreadful prob- abilities of death that were awaiting the men and boys upon the roof. He knew that beneath them more than seventy feer | below was a gigantic furnace, blazing | with Its fires, seething and steaming with its terrific heat. These fires had been lighted only a week in preparation for active work. Other furnaces there were in the bufld ing, but this over which the men and boys were standing ‘n a huddled mess was the only one lighted. Above the fires of the furnace was a concave brick cov- | ering, white hot. It is fully sixty feet long and thirty feet wide. The manager hastened with all speed for the gates and the into corrugated iron of the roof ventilators sway beneath the weight upon it and give way. Three hundred men and boys had been hurled headlong to the furnace be- low. A fringe of black figures stood around the gaping, twisted, fearful opening of the roof and looked down upon those who OF Pt T+ 4444440044444 4444444444444 444 4442444444444+ 4 444 044400‘400400004 reigned. Within the building there were half a dozen men with the fires of the keep alive the substarce that now was _ Continued on Second Pl‘o. i3 TALLEYRAND BARNWELL—15 years of age. Resided 212 Utah street. Skull fractured. WILLIAM H. ECKFELD—12 years of age. Resided at 1920 How- ard street. Skull fractured and internak injuries. EDGAR FAIRHAVEN—Y years of age. Resided at 1807 Howard street rectured skull. LEON GIRARD—IS years of age. tured right srm nnd skull. NEY—Spokane, Wash. Internal injuries. HAN—Aged 30. Address unknown. —15 years of age. 23 Glen Park avenue. 418 Misslon street. Frac- ROBERT MILL St. LUKE'S HOSPITAL. LESTER FRANCIS PRIOR—Age 17. Resldes at 717 Lydia street, Onklangd. Strained back and brualises. THOMAS G. SMITH—Aged 17. Resides at 173 Albion avenue. Compound fracture of leg. EDDIE HOLMAN—12 years of age. tusions of apine and head. Serious. WALTER STEWART—Aged 15. Resides at 173 Lexington ave- Fractare of both legs. THEODORE BAKER—Aged 13. Resides at 3622 Twentieth street. Broken collar bone, shoulder blade and right arm. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD HOSPITAL. UVKNOWN—Young man. Face and handsscratched and burned. UNKNOWN—M, Tendons of left arm cut. on street. Badly sprained back. 1035 Alabama street. Sprained back. —Same nddress. Right shoulder broken. GEORGE CAMPBELL—435 Tenth street. Internal injuries. ROBERT HARRISON—Sunnyside. Internal injuries. Probably fatal. ELLERY CRANDA 847 Valencia street. Con- nue. Leg and arm broken. ipley street. Internal injuries. JOHN HASEN—Cypress Lawn Cemetery. Abrasions of head. THEODORE BAKER—3622 Twentieth street. Wrist and leg cut. GEORGE PELLE—933 Jackuon street. Chest injnred. W. CONNOLLY—1920 Howard street. Chest and legs hurt. J. HOWELL—S47 Valencin street. Internal injuries. Severe. GEORGE MARSHALL—647 Jones street. Slight abrasions. PETER CARROLL—Third and_ Folso: reets. Severe, W. K. GRANT—145 South Park. Arms and legs htly eut. i Slightly injured. Chest, severe. Back, chest and legs Slightly hurt. Injuries slight. Legs and back cut WALTER GRIFFIN—)24 Folsom street. ELLIS CRANDALL—1104 Market street. injured. FRED BULLWINKLE—205 Sanchez street. GEORGE C. MILLER—317 Tenth strect. ARTHUR OUSTEN—&37 Thirteenth street. and braised. EDDIE HOWE—S47 Valencia street. Shoulder and thigh se- verely bruined. JOSEPH BOWEN—42 Norfolk street. HAROLD PALMER—290 Hyde street. Skull fractured. Fa ALBERT GURCKE—602 street. Severely hurt. LEON DOYL) ——— !ll.’htly hurt. Taken home by parents. GEORGE HEUSEN—Dore and Bryant streets. GEORGE MORSHEAD—&14 Jonex street. Arm broken. D'ARCY CASHIN—1607 Taylor ntreet. Shoulder dislocated. Slight ents and abras B. P. LEE— —--. Face and head cut. Slight. HENRY MEYER. D Howard stree Internal injuries. GREORGE WOODS—241 Minna sireet. Severe. CHARLES H. CUMMINS—1012 Page street. Internal injuries. RECEIVING HOSPITAL. FRED GARREHTY—104 Devisadero street. and internal injuries. L. RISSMENN—202 Harriet street. Both hands burned. '.PIIII- ed mnscles of the neck, i J:LLLAH HA:C:(—-!CM 'o‘“(-l)l":e“ #‘eefl!el sealp, com- ok, burn: Tigh arm. mcharge . CHLE—1471 Ellis street. Portion of hands and body (Discharged.) * Fractured akull THB INJURBD. 000000000#000#0##400_:?4#00000*0#000#00*00000000000004040400*0040’0000#00#000*0#000000 | bribed the watchman for the privilege of | .o¢¢¢¢....“¢¢¢¢¢‘¢94004000000#000000000000000000000000000000000000000000‘000000900000. TERRIBLE ROSTER OF DEAD AND INJURED. THE DEAD. VIRGIL NEWBY—Aged 16. Resided at 407 Capp street. Frac- OTTENSTEIN—Aged 15 years. Resided at 923 Folsom 875 Halght street. Left T. P. leg broken and f WILLIAM VA ternal injurfex. b RIPPON—Machinist tured sk CIA—105 esided at Ppp street. Fractured skull and in- TE VAN DYK or MARK VAN DURA—Jones street, between Forty-six years of age. Miner re- Skull fractured. Fractured skull, nd Geary streets. urned from Alaska. TOR McNEIL—762 Post street. Contused right foot. th street. Fractured arm. & treet. Fractured skull. Contused left hip and left X Loornn_ns Post stre Y—0514 Le: OHN-370 Capp ot EDWARD DtGG\‘—Gll Hermann street. J. E. BOW Leavenworth street. eyebrow and zye (Discharged.) JOHN BROUGH—1835 Mission street. MARK TRAYNOR—1208 Mission street. tused hip and ankle. (Discharged.) CITY AND.COUNTY HOSPITAL. PERCY BAGNALL—16 years of age. Resides at 707 Mason street. Both legs broken, AMOS CHEESMAN—Residence unknown. HARRY CALAHAN—17 years of age. Res Both arms fractured. HARRY CLIPPER—17 years of age. Resides at 2014 Bry et. Fractuared skull. Lacerated wounds, left Fractured skull. Burned right hand, con- 'h arms broken. at 15 Scott street. street. Fracture of arm. LEON DOLLARD—17 years of age. Resides at 218 Chattanooga wtreet. Wounded in neck and face, and arm rained. CHARLES FULTON—24 years of age. Resides at 3 Hermann street. Contused wound of head and arm. BERT HARRISO) Residence unknown. injuries. CLAUDE JACKMAN—12 years of age. Restdes at 727 1-2 Howard street. Fracture of wrist. RICHARD KOCH—16 years of age. street. Sprained ankle and internal injuries. DANTE MORIACO—16 years of age. Resides at 301 Dolores Fracture of knee joint and left arm. 2611 Post street. Internal 15 years Resides at 1605 Folsom street. CORNELIUS McMANN—12 years of age. Frac- GUSTAVE NORDLUND—23 years . Sallor. Residence un- known. Dislocated arms and burns. THOMAS PEDDLER—25 years of age. Resides at 645 1-4 Ste- venson street. ' Fracture of apinal column and contusions around . In eritieal condition. THOMWAS H. PARKER—13 years old. Resides at 1531 Fifteenth Internal injuries and sealp wou ALFRED REED—I17 years of age. Fracture of-both arms and contu ANDREW PETERSON-—13 years of age. street. Internal injuries and fraotured ribs. WILLIAM SWAIN—Aged 19, Potrero. Fracture of arms. Face burned ISATAH TREADWELL—Aged 1S. Colored. Resides at 833 Geary street. Fracture of thizh and suffering from shoeck. FRED F. LILLTE—21 years. 409 Mission street. Fracture.of . Dnangerously injured. Wiil probably die. JOHN MIEL—9 years of aze. Re: 3530 Twenty - third Fractnre of skull. Will pro > BERT HARRISON—15 years of age. S on face. Fractured limbs. ST. MARY’S HOSPITAL. WALTER GRIFFIN— . Fractured leg. PETER CARROLL— Injured about head. PRIVATE HOUSES. CHARLES PETERSON—345 Folsom street. Back wrenched. Leg broken. Nose crushed. E. P. TICE—Alabama and Sixteenth streefs. Left hip bone bro- Concussion of spine. Treated by Dr. W. D. Clarke. eye. Reosides st 200 Shipley yside. Extensive burns ken. 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