Garland City Globe | 1918-09-19 | Page 6 | Trapped in Burning Plant

TRAPPED IN BURNINQ PLANT. Elevm Perish In Factory Fire in New Jersey. Newark, N. J. Trapped In a cloakroom cloak-room on tho top floor, eight girls, a boy and a man perished hero Tuesday In a Are which destroyed the plant of tho American Button company. Another-girl wos killed, when, seeking to escapo from tho flames, sho leaped from a window. Nino othor girls' wore Injured, several probably fatally. Tho girls on tho lower floors mado their escape Most of the dead and Injured were working In tho carding room at tho top of tho building. It Is believed that, when they found cscupo by means of fire escapes and stairway's cut off, they fled In n panic to tho clok room, where their bodies were f7ind later. v