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Show YOUNG WOMEN CAUGHT li A F I TRAP AND MANY OF THEM PERISH Death List May Reach Thirty in a Fire! Which Destroys the Factory of Newark Paper Box Company, Newark, New Jersey-Girls Jumped to Their Death Newark N. T , Nov. 2C. In a disastrous disas-trous factory lire here today, twenty-eight twenty-eight lives are known to have been lost, thirty persons were injured, some probably fatally. Nearly all (he victims vic-tims were young women workers in the manufacturing plant of the building, build-ing, a four-story structure which took fire from au explosion on the third floor Loss of life and Injury was heaviest among the factory girls on the top floor, who were trapped by ibe quick spreading of the flames. Some of them jumped to safety In flro nets and others to their death or serious injury on th pavements below. be-low. Newark, N. J., Nov. 2C. Eight eeu persons are reported dead in a fire which started shortly after 9 oclock today in the factory ot the Newark Taper Box comany at 216 Hlg streeL Up to lo o'clock, eleven dead had been reported taken from the building. The death list may reach twenty. Nearly all the victims are young women. Thirty persona are said to have Tjeen Injured. When the fire broke out It trapped fifty girls employed on one of i the upper floors. A panic ensued. Many of the girls leaped from the w Indows. There is aJi engine house next door to the factory, but before the llremen could give any assistance at least twenty of the girls had jumped. The building in which the Are occurred Is a four-story structure. The first and second floors wcro occupied by the Newark Paper Dox company. The third floor was occupied by the Aetna Electric company. Tho fourth floor was used by Louis "Wolf, a manufacturer manufac-turer of underclothefl It is "believed" the blaze" started on the second floor In the rear, amon? a lot of rubbish. Within a minute or two after it was noticed, it had made its way into a lot of waste paper from which It spread to the upper floors. In all about 200 were employed in the building. Jennie Gill, "who was employed by Wolf, said sho wa3 In a room on the fourth floor, with Anna Tague, the forewoman and Anna Smith. Mrs. Hague discovered thv smoke and ran to a window. Panic stricken, she mounted to the sill and plunged into space. Miss Gill went to a fire-escape and was about to leap when the firemen fire-men raised a ladder and brought hei down An immense crowd congregated congregat-ed and it took the police reserved from the llrst. second, third, fourth and sixth precincts to handle the situation. situ-ation. One of the spectators said that at least fifteen girls had jumped from the fourth floor. They stayed at the windows win-dows until, frenzied by the flames behind be-hind them and nearly suffocated bv the pmoke. they leaped to the street. With the exception of two girls cm ployed by the Aetna roinpany, all th employes on tho first and second floors of the building escaped unhurt. The two who were Injured were Sadie " Hanson and Mrs. Margaret Molanthy. They were burned about the head and face. Twenty-four of the jnjurei were taken tak-en to St. Michaels hospital. Of these two died. Life-nets were put into use Immediately after the arrival of the firemen. Perhaps thirty lives were saved In this way. One girl, Hattle Delahey, was badly hurt. She miscalculated miscal-culated the leap and struck the edge of the net, falling to the pavement. Hople Dlehl was also Injured when she leaped for the net. Eiisene Mcllugh, a foreman in tho employ of the Aetna company, was amen? the first to realize the serious-nogs serious-nogs of the situation, mid guided sev-vral sev-vral score of girl to afety down a fire-ecape. fire-ecape. Lops than 20 minutes after tho arrival of the firemen, the interior of tbe building -wa-s flame-swept. The floors of the upper part of the building build-ing fell shortly afterward. It is believed be-lieved that a search of the rulus will reveal other bodies. Among those wso were early at the scene wn Rev. E. F. Quirk, assistant rector of St . Joseph's church He gave the last rites to seven of the victims. The priest worked nobly, helping tho firemen to reach parts of the buUd-; buUd-; Ing where others of the lujured might DC |