Show GIRLS LEAP TO DEATH TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING FACTORY JUMP FRO FROM M TENTH FLOOR one hundred and forty eight deaths result from one of worst disasters in history of new york most of dead unidentified new york one hundred and forty eight persons nine tenths of them girls from the east side were crushed to death on the pavements smothered in smoke or burned to a crisp la in a factory lire fire saturday afternoon in ili the worst disaster now new york has known since the steamship general slocum was burned to lo the waters edge of north brother island in 1901 one hundred and forty one bodies were removed from the ruins anti and seven of the forty injured died in hos bos petals this it la is believed completes the list of dead most of whom aro are unidentified grief crazed relatives besieged the morgue as the bod bodies les were laid out the victims of the disaster were wera employees of the triangle waist company which had its lofts in a ten story factory building the fire started in the electric motor box which supplied liea power to the hundreds of sewing mach lens on the various floors it spread so rapidly that all escape was cut off on tho the stairs and fire escapes below the seventh floor crazed toy by terror the men and women operators abandoned all efforts to fight thair way through the smoke filled hallways hallwa YB to the stairs or fire escapes and leaped madly from the windows within ten tell minutes after the blaze was discovered thirty five crushed and mangled bodies were lying bolow on the pavements pavements the building which Is at the corner of washington place and green street Is one of the biggest in the clothing manufacturing district there were 1500 men and women employed in it when the fire started but virtually all of those below the seventh floors managed to escape |