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Show GIRLS LEAPTO DEATH TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING. FACTORY EMPLOYES JUMP FROM TENTH FLOOR. One Hundred and Forty eight Deaths Result From One of Worst Disasters Disas-ters In History of New York; Most of Dead Unidentified. New York. Oue hundred and forty-eight forty-eight persons, nine tenths of them glils from the east side, were crushed to death on the pavements, smothered smoth-ered In smoke or burned to a crisp In a factory tire Saturday afternoon In the won't disaster New York has known since the steamship General Slocum was burned to the water's edge of North Urother Island In 1901. Om? hundred and forty one bodies were removed from the ruins, and seven of the forty Injured died in hospitals. hos-pitals. This, it Is believed, completes the list of dead, most of whom are unidentified. Grief crazed relatives besieged the morgue as the bodies were laid ouL The victims of the disaster were employees of the Triangle Wulst company, com-pany, which had Its lofta lu a ten-story ten-story factory tullding. The tire started in the electric motor mo-tor box which supplied power U) tho hundreds of sewing murhiens on tbi various floors. It spread so rapidly that all escape was cut off on thd stairs arid fire escapes below the seventh sev-enth floor. Crazed by terror, the men and women operators abandoned all efforts ef-forts to fight their way through tho smoke filled hallways to the stairs or firo escapes and leaped madly from the windows. Within ten minutes after the blaze was discovered, thirty-five crushed uud mauglcd bodies were lying below be-low on the pavements. The building, which is at the corner of Washington place and Greeu street. Is one of the biggest in the clothing manufacturing district. There were l.fiOO men and women employed In it when the fire started, but virtu ally all of those below the seventh floors managed to escape. |