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Show TWENTY KILLED IN FACTORY FIRE More Than Fifty Others Injured In-jured in Flames That Swept Through Manufactory. BURN ON FIRE ESCAPES Fire Breaks Out on Stairs and Occupants of Upper Floors Are Entrapped. New York, Nov. G. Twenty men and girls were killed and more than fifty others were Injured, according to the police, in a fire that swept through a four story wooden factory building on North Sixth Street, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn today to-day Within a short time after the fire was discovered tiight girls had"been"burn-cd had"been"burn-cd to death on the fire escapes, while a number of others, police say, had met a similar fate before they could reach the escapes. Fire Starts on Stairs. The fire started close to the stairs on the first floor and spread so speedily speed-ily that escape by tho stairs from the upper floors was entirely cut off. The upper floors were occupied by a shirt concern and a cloak- manufacturing manufac-turing company. Between 350 and 400 operatives, mostly young girls, were at work there, it was stated, when tho fire broke out. It was among these employes that most of the casualties occurred. Nearly all of the employes of the E. L. Diamond Candy company, on the ground floor, left at noon. It was near 2 p m. when a girl employed in the office of the candy company started start-ed from tho building and found smoke pouring Into the main hallway from the stairwell. She notified her own firm, the Essex Es-sex Shirt company, and the B. L. U. Tailoring company, which occupied tho upper floors, where 'fully 250 persons, per-sons, mostly young girls, wore at work. . Stairs on Fire. When the doors leading to the stairs on the upper floors were opened, survivors sur-vivors told the polie, the sLiIrs were already aflro and escape cut off. The doors were slammed shut and the operatives op-eratives on each floor rushed to windows win-dows opening on to tho fire escapes. Within a few moments the ladders were jammed with frightened men and girls. Meanwhile the fire was spreading spread-ing rapidly through tho various floors. A great crowd had gathered and many spectators called to tho girls and men on tho escapes not to jump. In what seemed to be an Incredibly short time, however, 'flames began pouring through several windows. A few moments later the crowd was horrlfiod to see a number of girls burned to death as they clung to a fire escape. |