THE GLASGOW FOOTBALL HORROR.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1514, 2 May 1902, Page 3

THE GLASGOW FOOTBALL HORROR.

A telegram from Glasgow on April 5 describing the International football match between England and Scotland and the collapse of a portion of the spectators' terraces, resulting in the death of 21 poisons and the injury of 250, says that when the game began 70,000 persons were on the ground. An immense crowd had gathered outside, being unable to gain admission. The crowd broke down the barriers, and swarmed upon the field. The police charged, and drove the intruders back upon the terraces and the Beats and railings dividing the crowds broke in. The people were thrown over each other in their frantic struggle towards the exits, and the pressure on the upper portion of the western terrace was so great that 100 feet of the highest part of the structure collapsed, precipitating a mass of people *o the ground 60ft below. The injured were piled in heaps,wedged together with broken wood. The onlookers utilised portions of the broken barriers as stretchers. One hundred of the most seriously injured were carried to the pavilion and to spaces in the rear of the stands. The police averted a panic by encouraging the impression that the accident did not put an end to the match, and the game was played to a finish. Those in the rear of the Btand will not soon forget the shouts of applause mingled with cried of the wounded pinioned in the debris. Seventy thousand persons were inside the enclosure, and an immense crowd had gathered outside. The attempt of this crowd to get in precipitated the crush. It is believed that as the people rushed upon the reservation the police drove them back upon the stand. This was supported by iron girders, but they were bent and twisted by the strain to which they were subjected.