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Deadly Football Game Roof Collapse

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

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Deadly Football Game Roof Collapse

WHILE a crowd of men and boys were watching a Thanksgiving football game from the roof of the San Francisco Glass Works, the roof gave way, precipitating a part of the crowd to the floor of the structure and the rest to the top of the oven in which the glass is melted. What the fall failed to do for some of the victims the heat of the oven quickly accomplished; and as the result of the accident twenty-two are dead, and over eighty more or less seriously injured.