Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — FALL OF GRAND STAND [ARTICLE]

FALL OF GRAND STAND

Sixty Persons Injured, Several of Them Fatally. Accident Occurs in Jackson, Miss., Just Previous to Big Football Game. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 1. —At least sixty persons were injured, several fatally, when a grand stand collapsed here, throwing 2,000 persons to the ground and burying many under the debris. The accident just preceded the calling of play in the University of Mis-sissippi-Agricultural college football game. Many women and children are among the injured. /he stand crashed without warning. Secretary of State J. N. Power sustained severe wrenches of the back and ugly bruises and Lieutenant Governor Mansip was bruised and cut about the head. Miss Mollie Burch, secretary to the chancellor of Mississippi college, was the worst sufferer among the women. She is bruised severely and it is feared sustained internal injuries. Many of those hurt were socially prominent. A preliminary investigation shows no cause for the collapse of the stand.