The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-27
FIVE BOYS BURN TODEATH Terrible Fire in Dover
 Factory. MANY JUMP TO SAFETY Lives of Several Hundred Operators Were Endangered. The Bodies of Youthful workers Were Burned Beyond Recognition and Were Not Recovered UatIl
 After ConnaRration.
 

Dover, N. J., Jan. 25.-Dovers most disastrous fire which occurred today cost the lives of four and probably five young mill operatives and prop erty loss of half a million dollars. The fire destroyed mill No. of the Cocheco Manufacturing Compd1y. The ho@les of four boys, charred beyond hope of Identification. were found this aiter- noon in the smoking ruins. and as hse boys are known to pe rnsssing, 1t IS believed that another pody will be dls- covered
 The missing boys are:
 Charles Cosgrove. aged l6.
 Constantine Elipulos. aged is
 John Nicholopulos, aged 10.
 - Redden, aged l5.
 --- Hester, aged i5.
 The fire broke out in the mill not long after the 500 or more operatives had assembled for their days work. The exits soon became blocked by struggling mass of mill hands and many were obliged to jump from the windows. The financial loss is $o0e,- oo0; covered by insurance.
 The lives of from 300 to 500 em- pioyes were imperilled by the ire that swept through the structure with great rapidity shortly after all the hanos were at their places today,
 One man. who with four others was carried down an extension ladder from sbe sfth door.t reported that as he s.roued his way to the window, ne stumbled over several prostrate forms. Tie min building seemed doomed at s.aO o'clock, but the ffremen were con f,dAnt of preventing the spread or the flames to adjoining structures.
 Two of the men who jumped from the fourth floor were taken to the nos pItaI seriously hurt. and a dozen or fine others were treated for hurts or < less serious nature. The seriously
 wiiliam rurner. mule spinner, broken sanes Ashton, mule spinner both legs broken.
 Hot BOX started Bisze.
 The fire started from 2 not gUx n the spool room and before the fright. ened employees could make any sftort to extinguisi1 It the flames spread 70 fhe spinning room and swept through inc big mill. There was no hre os- rapes in the place and the panic strick- sn employees made wild rush Tor the exits. Those on the lower floors gen. nraily managed to get out through the doors or windows, but those on the fourth and fifth floors were not so Fortunate Employees on the ftth noor rushed to the fourth in large num- hers. and finding that smoke ana names cut off their exit down the stairways many leaped from the windows to the frozen ground.
 Some of the cooler headed ones re- mernbered that there were ropes in the room placed there for emergency and attaching these to the window frames viid down rapidly, burning the skin om their hands in so doing,
 While the firemen were busy In get ling their forces into an advantageous position for fighting the flames and helping out the people on the lower stories, four men crouched at an open window on the upper floor gasping for air for nearly two hours before they were discovered.
 An extension ladder was raised, but the imprisoned men were nearly un- conscious from the smoke when res- sued. James Connors. one of these men, stated that he had stumbled over what he believed to be unconscious persons