Memorial Service in Denmark

July 2 — -- Rock fans filled a Danish Cathedral today to mourn the death of the eight men who were trampled to death at a weekend music festival.

The 50 minute service drew about 1,200 people, including dozens of youths, many wearing jeans and shoes covered with dry mud from the annual Roskilde festival.

The eight fans were trampled to death when thecrowd rushed the stage at a Pearl Jam show Friday night.

Many people at the service were sobbing and holding each otheras they sat in the pews.

Sara Wallin, a 20-year-old Danish student who was up frontduring the crush at the Pearl Jam concert, said she was shocked tolearn that people had died.

“It is scary to think that we didn’t realize what washappening,” Wallin said.

Extra Precautions at Festival

The memorial was an unexpected addition to the lineup of this annual rock festival, which continues on all seven stages including the main stage where Pearl Jam was playing.

Audiences tucked letters and flowers into the barbed wire on thebarrier in front of the stage in remembrance of those killed. Amakeshift memorial of flowers and candles off to the side of thearea, which was cordoned off for much of Saturday, had been fencedin.

Organizers say they’ve taken all possible security measures anddefended their decision not to end the event. A spokesman says “life is about sunshine, happiness and music.”

An investigation is underway to try and understand why the victims were trampled. According to a police spokesman an additional twenty five people were injured, four seriously.

Pearl Jam has cancelled the rest of their European tour which was scheduled to conclude July 3rd.

The Seattle rock band said they will never be the same, and issued a statement on their official Web site, saying “there are absolutely no words to express our anguish in regard to the parents and loved ones of these precious lives that were lost.”