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Show IFORTY GIRLS DIE I IN FACTORY FIRE Overall Plant at Binghamton, New York, Burns to the Ground in Twenty Minutes Police Believe That Few of the 120 Girls Were Successful in Making Their Escape SVICTIMS CAUGHT LIKE RATS IN A TRAP Bodies of Two Girls Found Lying on a Side Street, Completely Cut in Two Heart Rending Rend-ing Scenes When Girls Clinging to the Fire iCE Escapes, Were Swept by Sheets of Flame or In. Jumped From Factory Windows Many of Badly Injured in the Hospitals UK Bingham pton, N. Y , July 22 -Forty ffirls are believed to hae lost thir J5 lives In a fire which destroyed th-j I 'Freeman Overall factory here thl6 af Stf teraoon. The lire started at 2 3U o'clock and had completely destroyed tn the building in 20 minutes. .I One hundred and tvent girls were ;H In the factory when the fire was dij-covered dij-covered The police declared that at 1 least 4"i failed to escape. ML Twelve girls were taken to the hos-Bjajpital hos-Bjajpital badly injured, it There were heart rending scenes when several girls clinging to fire es-Ullicapes es-Ullicapes were swept b sheets of flames tfc'jor Jumped from the facton windows Bj Exactly how man were penned Inside i was hard to determine, in th" panic. The walls of the big building fell at '2:50 p. m At 3:45 p. m . two bodies were sei R I lying on Diusion street cut complere-;ly complere-;ly In two Others can be seen in the i ruins. E. J Lawrence, bookkeeper of the B company, said that he was working in the office when the first alarm 60und-H 60und-H ed. The flames were under the front 'll stairway. There also was a rear stairway and fire escapes at the tt south 6ide of th-? building. Went Like Powder, hi Most of the women were employes Ml'iii the machine operating room on the J, fourth floor They made no attempt pcto hurry from the building at firsr, iffthinklnc thai the alarm was for a ?a fire drill b2T Messengers rushed through tho building to drive the uom-ii out. SS "Just then." said lawrenee, 'the whole buildinp hurst into flames It jWas of the ordinary factory construe- SBon, with timber supports and brick Up.u. dui ir went up iiK powder ,5"- Pu and a" wa8 over. When the ' aflames rushed up the front sfiirwav P"lt was awful K'Tbe women were in a panic in an Vlnstant. The rushed to the fire es-I es-I capes and many of them leaped out uT)f the windows is1 "I had twenty-five names on mv pay atolls but somp of the employes were kfligone on vacation The lists are all Jtw-lnBlde the burned factory. I didn t ai-'have time to put them away or 'o Bllose the safe It iB impossible for the Spresent to call the roll to get an ac hscurate line on those who are mlss-e-iidng." I An hour after the first alarm had ibeen sounded, the policemen and fire-itninen fire-itninen were working among the debr.s ' iBSVf the wrecked building. As nearly rtJjjuB they could ascertain, the dead i incumbered Bbou' twenty and the In- ! injured about fifty Of! Most of those hurt received their tKllnjurles in jumping from the upper D '.floor where more than half of the ftWhanda. were at work when the alarm r Meounded. Of the 125 persons In the t. ifactory. six comprise the oftlco force idlilon the first floor, five were cutters gfffon the seoond floor, twenty were op-iflMeratoru op-iflMeratoru on the third floor and eighty i ijftwere machine operators on the topi m floor bout. 100 of the 125 were girls and women. oo |