| Show GIRLS LEAP TO BE TH TRAPPED IN BURNING BUILDING FACTORY JUMP FROM TENTH FLOOR one hundred and forty eight death result from one of worst aloas disasters in history of new york most of dead unidentified now york ono one hundred and forty tight persons nino nine tenths of 0 them girls earls from the east side wore were crushed to death on tho the pavements smothered in smoke or burned to a crisp in a factory elrd saturday afternoon in tho the worst disaster now new york has hag known since the steamship general slocum was burned to the waters edge ol of north brother island in 1901 ono one hundred and forty ono bodies were removed from the ruins and e boven 0 van 0 of t the forty injured died in hospitals this it Is believed comp completes lotes the list of doad dead most of whom aro are unidentified grief crazed relatives ivea besieged the morgue as the bodies were vere laid out tho victims of the disaster were employees of the triangle waist company which had its lofts in a ten story factory building the fire started in the electric motor metor box which supplied power to the hundreds of sewing mac machiels hiens on the various floors it spread so rapidly that all escape was cut off on tho the stairs and fire escapes below tho the seventh floor crazed by terror the men and women operators abandoned all efforts to fight their way through tho the smoke oiled filled hallways to the stairs or fire escapes and leaped madly from the windows within ten minutes after tho blaze was discovered thirty five crushed and and mangled bodies were lying below on tho the pavements the building which is at tho the corner cony of washington place and green street is ono one of the biggest in the clothing manufacturing district there were 1600 1500 men and women employed in it when the fire started but virtually all of those below the seventh floors managed to escape |
