"A veritable hell of anguish," one reporter wrote. And this time the carnage would stagger belief-more than 20 dead, most of them children, some perishing in grisly, horrible ways. In 1900, the same factors that conspired in the near-miss disaster three years earlier-an overflow crowd at Big Game, eager, unsupervised kids and unprepared authorities-again combined for a Thanksgiving Day debacle. Hare/San Francisco Examiner)īut "providential chance," as the weekly Argonaut termed the good luck, soon proved fickle. "That many people were not killed or maimed for life is simply miraculous," one witness, left stunned by a falling timber that bloodied his wife, told the Examiner.ĭEATH WATCH: Hundreds crowded onto the glassworks factory after the stands filled. Yet to general amazement only one victim, a 10-year-old boy flung from the roof, even went to the hospital. Rumors of fatalities rippled through the crowd. Panicked spectators covered the field while others toppled fences and barricades in a rush to pull jagged beams off trapped fans, some of whom were unconscious and bleeding. A section of roofing over the grandstands collapsed under scores of gawkers. Instead, with seconds left, the grounds exploded in chaos. The game's final whistle promised an end to the anxiety.
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