Show 1 MEET BEA 11 IN FACTORY IRE VICTIMS F FAILED AILED TO HEED ALARM ALARI kii UNTIL FLAMES HAD CUT OFF EVERY AVENUE OF ESCAPE women and girls thought alarm was for fire drill and when they real iced their danger it was too tco late to escape down narrow stairway ning hampton na X Y fity fifty two persons most of them women and girls and all employed la in the frame tin der box factory of the clothing company died in a fire which swept that building tuesday afternoon noon auty inore persons nere injured a dozen doyon of them ra fatally tally the girls who had become annoyed at too frequent fire drills thought the alarm which sounded bounded at tuesday afternoon noon was only mother another drill and refused to heed it the flames had bad cut off on every avento ot of escape to most of the women employed emp loyes before they realized that their lives era were actually in danger while many girls lost their liven because they did not heed ane alarm of lire fire it seems certain that the narrow row stairway and inadequate fire escapes would not have furnished sufficient arteries of egress in such a fire had the employed emp loyes responded promptly to the call ball less than one fifth of the persons in the building escaped death oi or beri ous injury the two hospitals of this city land and many homes and private institutions house the fifty inbur injured ed the big outstanding fact of the ca ta strophe is its suddenness in this it hears bears a strong resemblance to the disaster in new york where lives were lost when the inflammable material and the waists littering ane floors blazed ip with incredible rapidity and set the imprisoned work ers era jumping from the witt lows to their death another resemblance to the he new york disaster dla aster Is that the fire Is believed to havo been started by ofle ane throwing away of a cigarette butt 0 or a match |