Show SCORE M MEET DEATH DEATHS S IN IN FACTORY FIRE GIRLS CAUGHT IN FIRE TRAP AND BURN TO DEATH IN SIGHT OF SPECTATORS Flames Spread So Swiftly in Old Wooden Building In Brooklyn That Escape by Stairs and Elevator Was Cut Off New York Twenty five Twenty five persons most of them girls lost their lives in ina ina a fire that destroyed an old story four brick rick and wooden factory building m to Inthe the le Williamsburg section of Brooklyn on u Saturday Thirteen bodies have been jeen recovered A search of oC the ruins is s expected to recover the bodies of twelve welve other victims eight of them girl irl who were reported as missing Of the forty injured in hospitals many were expected to die and a score more were less seriously burned and bruised The building was occupied by a aandy candy andy manufacturing con concern ern and three iree firms manufacturing clothing whose employees employees' I normally totaled but ut more than a a third had been dismissed dismissed dismissed dis dis- dis- dis I missed before the fire started for a I Saturday half The flames were discovered shortly before 2 o'clock by a girl employee I of f the candy factory which occupied the le ground floor and basement and andere were ere were soon roaring up t the e el elevator vator shaft haft around which wound the principal principal pal al stairway was one other stairway In the rear ear of the building and some som of the entrapped d persons escaped by y that but bu before eiore the firemen arrived men and women were dropping from the win- win dows The Thet flames had swiftly mushroomed mushroomed mush- mush roomed from the elevator tor shaft into tIto i fourth floor and scarcely had the first streams ams m of water entered th the bundi building g when when the roo roof olla collapsed end fhe fU lie outer her r floors soon af after r fell feU one by one After ACter a preliminary investigation by bythe bythe 1 the he authorities Mrs Edward L. L Df Din DIa mon mond ond J owner r pf the building and her husband were arrested on a charge of f criminal hogUg and remanded to o jail without bail ball Mr Diamond said lie he le was was in the building at the time of ofle the le fire but claimed ignorance aa t to the he cause cause 6 |