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Show SCORE MEET DEATH III 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-flvo persons, most of them girls, lost their lives in u flro that destroyed an old four-story brick and wooden fnotory building tn tho Williamsburg section of Drooklyn, on Saturday. Thirteen bodies havo been recovered. A search of tho ruins is expected to recover tho bodies of' twelve other victims, eight of them girl, who were reported as missing. Of tho forty injured in hospitals many wcro expected to dio and a score moro wcro loss Berlously burned and bruised. Tho building was occupied by a candy manufacturing concern and threo Arms manufacturing clothing, whoao employees normally totaled 300, but moro than a third had been dismissed dis-missed before tho flro started, for a Saturday half-holiday. Tho flames wcro discovered shortly beforo 2 o'clock by a girl employee of tho candy factory, which occupied tho ground floor and basement, and were soon roaring up tho elevator shaft, around which wound tho principal princi-pal stairway. Thero was ono other stairway in tho rear of tho building and some of tho entrapped persons escaped by that, but beforo tho firemen arrived men and women wero dropping from tho windows. win-dows. Tho flames had swiftly mushroomed mush-roomed from the elevator shaft Into the fourth floor and scarcely had tho first streams of water ontored the building whon the root collapsed. Tho other floors soon after fell ono by ono. After a preliminary investigation by the authorities. Mrs. Edward L. Dia mond, owner of tho building, and her husband, wero nrrested on n charge of criminal negligcnco and remanded to Jail without ball. Mr. Diamond said he was in tho building at tho time of tho flro, but claimed ignorance as to tho causo. |