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Show GIRLS BIN IN BUTTON FACTORY i I . NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 17. All police po-lice reserves and ambulances in the city were ordered out to a fire which broke out this afternoon in the plant of the American Button company here. Police reports were that many girls wero jumping from the windows of tho factory. Twelve persons aro dead, according to the first police report The blaze is still raging and firemen and policemen are making rescues. AJ1 tho dead are girl employes, ten of whom were trapped on the fourth floor of tho mill while two others, who jumped to the street, died in an ambulance am-bulance on the way to a hospital. At least twelve, perhaps more of the young women workers, wero injured, some of them seriously, (hep ilice reported. re-ported. After the fire was under control, firemen began a search of the building where it was believed additional bodies bod-ies might be unnder tho debris. on |