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Show TRAPPED IN BURNING PLANT. Eleven Perish in Factory Fire in New Jersey. Newark, X. J. Trapped in a cloakroom cloak-room on the top floor, eight girls, a boy and a man perished here Tuesday In a tire which destroyed the plant of the American Button company. Another An-other girl was killed, when, seeking to escape from the flames, she leaped from a window. Nine other girls were injured, several probably fatally. The girls on the lower floors made their escape. Most of the dead and injured were working in the carding room at the top of the building. It is believed that, when they found escape by means of fire escapes and stairways cut off, they fled in a panic to the cloak room, where their bodies were found later. |