Show SCORE LL U rc AIH IN FIRE GIRLS CAUGHT IN FIRE TRAP AND BURN TO DEATH IN SIGHT OF spectators flames spread so swiftly in old wooden Mull building ding in brooklyn that escape by stairs and elevator waa was cut off new york twenty five persons moat mot ot of them girls lost their lives in a fire that wat destroyed an old four story brick and wooden factory building in tho the williamsburg section ot of brooklyn on saturday thirteen bodies have been recovered A search of the ruins la is expected to recover the bodies of twelve other victims eight of them trl who were reported as missing oi 01 the forty injured la in hospitals many wore were expected to die and a score more were less seriously burned and bruised the building was occupied by a candy manufacturing concern and three firms manufacturing clothing whose whoso employees normally totaled but more than a third had been die missed before the fire started for a saturday half holiday the flames were discovered shortly before 2 by a girl employee ot the candy factory which occupied the ground floor and basement and wore were soon roaring up the ele elevator shaft around which wound the pal stairway there was one oti ofir r stairway in the rear of the building aih ani some oi 01 the entrapped persons escaped hv hr that but before the firemen arrived men and women were dropping from the windows the flames had swiftly mushroomed from the elevator shaft into the fourth floor and scarcely had the first streams of at water entered the building when the root collapsed the other floors soon after fell one by one after a preliminary investigation by the authorities mrs edward L dia mond owner of the building and her husband huband were arrested on a charge of criminal negligence and remanded to jail without ball mr air diamond said ho be was in the building at the timo time of tho the fire tire but claimed ignorance as to the cause |