[Trade Journal]
Publication: Crockery & Glass Journal
New York, NY, United States
vol. 52, no. 23, p. 24, col. 1-2
Nine persons were killed and fully fifty badly injured on Thanksgiving Day by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific Glass Works, in Fifteenth street, San Francisco, while it was crowded with men and boys watching a football game on the field adjoining. About seventy-five persons fell through the roof upon the red hot furnaces and glass vats below. All were horribly burned. The manager of the glass works had realized the danger before the accident occurred, and had sent for the police to compel the crowd to leave the roof. Just as a squad of officers arrived the roof went down.
