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Show TRAPPED IN BURNING PLANT. Elevin Perleh In Factory Fire In New Jersey. Newark, N. J. Trapped In n clonic-room clonic-room on tho top floor, eight girls, a boy nnd a man perished hero Tuesday lu n llro which destroyed tho plant of tho American Button company. Another-girl wns killed, when, seeking to escape from tho flames, sho leaped from a window. Nino other girls wore Injured, several probnbly fatally. Tho girls on tho lower floors mado their escape Most of tho dead and Injured were working In tho carding room at tho top of the building, It Is believed that, when they found escape-by escape-by means of lire escapes and stairways cut off, they fled In n panic to tho clonk room, where their bodies were f7jnd lator. v |