Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-08 | Page 2 | Lives Lost by a Locked Door

LIVES LOST BY A LOCKED DOOR New York, Nov. 7. Twelve bodies, those of eight women and four men, and the list of missing narrowed down to one man, summed up today the casualties as the result of tho fire in the Diamond Candy factory building build-ing In Brooklyn yesterdav. Reports from the hospitals, where forty-one injured were taken after the tire, showed that less than thirty were detained for further treatment, others having been sent to their homes. Fire Commissioner Adamson ro-night ro-night issued a statement in which he declared the loss of life among the workers on the fourth and fifth floors of the building was duo to the fact that one of tho two stairways to the lower floors was closed by a locked door on the third floor. Escape by tho ther stairway was cut off by the flames. After an investigation bv tho fire department and the testimony of ono witness, who said he knew two girls met their deaths because of obstructions obstruc-tions to the oxits leading to the stairways stair-ways to floors below, Samuel Barkan and Samuel Simon, proprietors of the Essex Shirt company, which occupied an upper floor of tho building, were held late tonight as material witnesses. witness-es. The testimony was that bolts had been placed on the doors of the exits by their orders.