Show 9 MILL GIRLS DIE NE CAUGHT IN IN- IN TRAP OF FIRE Boy Man Jan Perish As Flames Sweep S Button Factory in Newark N. N J. J Newark N J J. Sept 17 Trapped Trapped In Ina Ina Ina a cloakroom on tho the top op floor noor eight girls Irl a bo boy and a man perished here bore today loday In a fire which destroyed the plant of oC the tho American Dutton corn com pan pany Another girl Sill was waR killed when seeking to escape from the flames she leaped from a a window Nino Ino other girls were Injured several sc probably fa fatally a tall tal I y At 2 o'clock the factory factor hummed with the Industry of or more than young women engaged n ll ell In making buttons buttons but but- tons for tor army and na navy uniforms but I At 3 O the building was wa a swept flame ruin the top floor of or which formed a n I tomb for Cor workers who had been driven IVI en cn Into the tho cloakroom by n Il I smoke AL At 30 the tho fire was virtually extinguished and the task of or identifying victims began The girls on the lower floors made their cs escape Most of of the thc dead deall and Injured working In tho the carding rooi at the tho top tot of or tho the building It ItIs ItIs Iti i Is believed that when the they found c es escape escape es- es cape by hy means of oC fire escapes and Ild stairways as cut off ocr thc they fled tied In Jn a p panic to tho the cloakroom wl rc their bodies were found later All were burned beyond heon reeo recognition n and It was only through trinkets nn and bits bill of or scotched scot attire that Identification was sas possible Driven cn into the coal cloakroom loom which had but hut one window only ono one girl Irl summoned up coura courage o to jump She Shei died i almost Immediately The Tho fire started In cans of oC lacquer stored on the s second on floor loor according ln to Supt Frederick W. W Goerdes who said that an explosion occurred when hien a defectively insulated electric wire ire came camo in contact with a can The flames spread epIcal rapidly to the roof and nearly arly a hundred me men a ad d work ork on the third floor found that not only was escape by means of or Interior stairs cut off oCt but also that their only other means of or egress l' l a afire afire fire escape was vas swept wept by flames I which spurted through windows it was as the tho sight of oC this seemingly Impassable impassable im Im- Irn- Irn passable barrier that threw v the girls I Into a panic Most of or the tho workers on the top floor loor also aleo the fire tire escape I and those who perished lost their lives only when the they climbed back aCt after r descending de do- I part Va way say |