Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-02-22
FIRE in a Shirt Factory Caused
Terrible Disaster.
SOME JUMPED TO DEATH
n.h,r. .,ere Irahle tD Reach the Win
oows, and Eel Back Into a
Fiery Furnace.


thousands Of dollars worth Of proper+A
and caused the destruction OF MANY
lives. From the outside OF ti2 mgr
building the first notice of ilnpendl nE
disaster was the sight of body VI!
girls as they rushed out upon the nre
ESCAPES from the windows, those Nhc
We're fortunate croWding out Of the an
trance Following them was mass OF
smoke with flashes Of hot flame in lurld
streaks. Then the mass Of frenzied hu-
nanity, finding the egresses too small
for instant escape, began climbing oF
the sides OF the escapes and bundles Of
clothing filed with writhlns humanity
dropped al the feet Of the Mortified pass
erS-Dy.
Within 20 minutes after the fire start
ed there were three dead women laid
upon the floor of an adjoining store,
and at least dozen burned and maitn>
g.r}s and women taken to the hospital
or to their homes. OF the $50 girls and
women iii the building, it j. presumed
thar at least half a dozen are III lhe
ruins, for it is impossible to locate Nl,
and there may possibly be a score Of
dead.
It was Just 30 minutes before the c}2s-
ing hour in the Stettheimer < CO. shirt
waist factory on River street, anu thu
$50 girls and women were working rap
idly to finish up III the cutting rooal,
on the fifth floor the $50 girls were clos
ing up their days assignments uad
preparing to leave when the whistle
should blow Lille I<reIgeT, Who WIS
king near a machine, called to q
small boy TO light the gas over har
o1Df 4JNI
threw the burning stub to the floor. 1t
struck a pile ot oily rags and ln An -A-
stant the girl was enveIoped in flames.
With her clothes and hair burning, aae
rushed to the window, and a once che
room became struggling, shIl aS
mass OF humanity, filing the windows,
the fire escapes and the only stairway,
.JammIng ana pushing ana tearing ess@h
others clothes from their backs, tuEt-
ing into narrow corridors to find s-5-
ter or mother or friend, the number III
the exits augmented every minute ~
those from the other floors these glTts
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ct away from the flames that seemed
to be growing 10 q m9nstrous size,
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man Farrell, VINO was on the street.
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