The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-01
GIRLS SLAIN
 IN STAMP|E||I| Fears of Fire Crt1ifs
 Panic. |s ARE KILLED 0UTRl Three Others Receive Injnl Believed to Be Fatal An Accident to Dsaf and nunb . 1. c.u.s. rmployit q cIs.s ssz-
 tory to strassls ts
 Their Death. $
|s ARE KILLED OUTRlc lc

deaf and dumb boy. Isador Bacchus, vS1E' today directly responsible for the 6s51S of eight girls and young women. the f4<6l injury of three others. and the sertoG6 injury of moro than two scoree of eitIa employed In the cigar factory Of H&4- burger. Homan q Co.,. branch of IT.
 American Tobacco Company. located 31s Tenth Street and Washington Assnus
 The dead: Mary Geneva. aged E ye4t1eeS Helene Toiino. aged F: Elisabsth Tar
 tine. aged l3; Annie Rosscnneider. AoG4
 IS: Louise Despi. aged IS; Ida GrSs1
 aged IS: Annie Ford. aged ls; unidentin(5
 woman, z5 years of age.
 Fatally injured: Mary Mesino. injured internally, skull fractured; Josephlne
 ORonco, injured internally: unidenttne4
 woman, fractured skull. unconscious-
 The injuries of the others consist main~'
 iy of bruises about the Dody and Hac-
 tured limbs.
 The building in which the disaster oe@s
 cured is five-story brick structure e14
 reaches an entire block. Twelve hundke4
 persons were at work. 90 per cent of whom were girls whose ages range from F years upward.
 Accident to Janitor.
 While on the fourth floor. Bacchus. Who was the janitor, started for the tifth nqof for a ball of twine. The elevator waa IT. the top of the shaft and Bacchus pnllq4 the rope to bring 1t down. He opone4 1n4| door leading to the shaft and leaned xc<<, ward to see where the carriage wna@ ~ he did so, the elevator. which wAn &2r scending slowly. struck him across tMS back of the neck. pinioning hts head te- tween the elevator and the floor. fs A stock boy released Bacchus and crte1 1 fb. help The foreman rushed from tn1 I buiA ing to eau an ambulance ana in1n1e< diateAy there was panic ariionG the eK1- | pioyesA> Some of the young girls fainted. while others cried fire. Instantly thexe | was a mAt rush for the stairway lead 1 ing to Tenth Street The girls ruzhed down the nlrrow staircase until tn1y
 reached behi in the exit between tn l second and thiN floors. In their eager~
 ness to escape. tfl>. frightened Leaders feII.I Others immediately following, q sT7=. over the struggling kass of humanity ena in less than q minuNe there were hunr dreds of children and ycung women etru4- | giing in the passageway
 | The shrieks and screams of terror stricken girls could be he5s-d for block
 or mo re. During the exciteA1ent an alarm
 of fire was turned in, but bSfo.e the eN- zines could reach the scene ssverai of tho
 oetrpants of tue building had rushed b | the windows and jumped to tlis, street, A
 distance of over fifty feet. Heiaf Toiinl, | one of those to jump. was instantly killed. | When the firemen and policemen arrived. | every effort WIS made to quiet the te<~ l rorized girls. The firemen rushed up the | stairway and begged the girls to be caikp. | telling them that there was absolutely | Al IA ~F .< | seemed only to add fuel to the flame. | Ambulances Inadequate. | While the policemen and firemen were
 endeavoring to quiet the girls on the stair- way, ladders were being run up on tho | outside of the building and the employees l who had climbed out onto the fire escapes | and window edges were quickly taken to | the street After few minutes the men were enabled to check the awful crush on the stairway and then began the work l of resciiing those who had been trampIed and crushed between the second and thir6 | floors. The alarm for ambulances had | been- turned in and as quick as the dead | and injured could be carried from the | building they were hurried to hospitals. | The number of ambulances was entirely | inadequate and patrol wagons were brought into use to carry the victims away for treatment
 l Ine scene duDuL the Stfuttute was tiSat
 rendinr The building Is located in a sec | tion largely inhabited by Hebrews. many | of whom were caught in the territne crush. Parents and relatives of the ,S1- fortunate girls were screaming and rush ing about the streets like mad, and it was almost impossible for the police or
 fcials to restrain the mothers and rela- tives of supposed victims from entering the building.
 The work of rescuing the girls from the
 windows was necessarily tedious They were so excited that they did not seem to understand the pleadings of the tircmens At nearly every window of the huge
 structure were girls screaming and crying
 for help. Many were so excited that tt
 was with the greatest difficulty that they
 were prevented from jumping from tha
 building. notwithstanding that there was
 not 8 sign of fire and their rescue seemed
 only the work of few minutes.