| Show FALL OF GRAND STAND Panic at a Football Game Causes Death THREE PEOPLE KILLED One Hundred and TwentyFivo Others Aro Injured Majority of Those Hurt Suffer From Broken Ribs and Fractured Limbs Whilo Number Wore ly Injured Accident Occurs at Glasgow Scotland Scot-land People Fall Sixty Feet Piled Up in Heaps and Wedged in Debris Glasgow April 5The struggle of Ibrox the crowds which gathered at park today to witness the last International Interna-tional association football contest between be-tween teams from England and Scotland Scot-land caused the collapse of n portion of one of the spectators terraces resulting re-sulting In the death of three persona and the Injury of 125 others CROWD AN IMMENSE ONE When the game began 70000 spectators specta-tors were on the ground and an Immense Im-mense crowd had saU red outside Being Be-ing unable to obtain admittance this crowd broke down some ofthe barriers and swarmed upon thc field whereupon the police charged and drove the intruders In-truders back upon the terraces and seats with the result that the railings rail-ings dividing the crowds were broken and people were thrown over each other STRUCTURE COLLAPSES In the frantic struggle toward thc exits the pressure toward the upper portion of the westerly terrace was so great that 100 feet of the highest part of the structure collapsed under the weight of the crowd driven upon It precipitating the mass of people to the ground 30 feet below The Injured were piled In heaps wedged in with broken wood RESCUING THE INJURED The onlookers hesitated to approach the dangling structure at first but finally began to utilize portions the broken barriers as stretchers A hundred hun-dred of the most seriously Injured were carried to the pavlllon I and to spaces In the rear of the stands MANY BROKEN LIMBS A majority of the victims are suffering suffer-ing from broken ribs r and fractured limbs while some sustained Internal Injuries Those most Severely hurt were later removed Inl mb lances to Infirmaries and the lesser sufferers were sent In cabs to surgeries Six of the Injured arc not likely to recover A few persons were I trampled upon In tr lnS to escape from the crush when the police charged but most of the victims sustained their injuries In the fall of the terrace i < I TWENTY FATALLY INJURED Up to midnight five deaths have been reported as a result of the accident f while In the case of twenty other victims vic-tims all hope of recovery has been abandoned 1 The injured in many cases were lying five or six dcep and It Is considered marvelous that there were not more fatalities Ono man hung by 1 his boot which caught In a splintered beam head downward fifty feet above the ground Finally his boot was cut and the man dropped Into a sheet held below be-low 10STRANGE STRANGE FEATURE OF DISASTER The strangest feature of the affair is the fact that the crowd In the other parts of the grounds failed entirely to icallze thc extent of the disaster and the game was played to n finish resulting re-sulting in n draw Even the management manage-ment appeared to be unaware ot lhe seriousness of the accident until it vas announced game after the conclusion of thc < |
