Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-28

two pathetic remnants of girls work.
ing shoes, torn, burned and rended,
served as the sole Identification of two
victims of the tragedy.
Title Gottlieb, youngest Of three sis
tiers who went to death together in the
fire, had worn to work from her home
in East Orange that morning a pair of
shoes that had come from abroad.
shoes Identify Bodies.
When, long after the fire. her rela-
ives searched for her in the morgue
they rejected her little body three
times before one noted the shred of
shoe.
A vivid account of Saturdays fire
was given today by Miss Sophia
Diehm, of 131 Norfolk street. whose
sister Katherine is one of the twenty
three identified dead, and who herself
Is in bed with a broken ankle. st can
see 1t all yet" said Miss Diehm. There
were three of us sisters working In
VOLTS. When the fire broke out we
looked for each other. AS soon as we
got together we made for the fire.
escape. Clara, that is my sister who
is unhurt, ran up the steps leading to
the f1re-escape. You see, the window
was SO high that four steps were needed
to reach 1t.
Fell Out of window.
Gust as Clara got to the top step 1t
broke and she fell down. Somehow
she swung around, raised herself to
the window ledge n got down safely.
There were so many Of us there by that
time that it was impossible for any
one else to do the same thing. So we
a to the rear of the building and
jumped into the nets. Katherine in
sisted that l go first. / jumped and
struck a pipe that was projecting out
from the side of the building and broke
my ankle in that way. Sister jumped
after me, struck the same pipe, n I
believe tina it broke her back. for
when she reached the ground she
screamed, saying that her back was
broken. She died soon after at the
City Hospital"
The dead girl was rs years old. She
had worked at the factory five weeks.
Previous to her employment there she
had been a dressmaker at home but
gave up her business on account Of
the long hours. Her two sisters,
Sophia and Clara, had worked at the
Wolf plant for some time, and because
they were satisfied with conditions
there thought it would be a good plan
to have Katherine work there too. Now
both the girls feel as If they were re-
sponsible for the death Of their sis
ter. The funeral will be held from the
house tomorrow morning. The Rev.
Father Huelsebush, of st. Augustine's
Church, will oficiate. The interment
will be in the Cemetery of the Holy
Sepulchre.
Miss Sophia Diehm, the injured girl,
was asked If she had ever thought the
building unsafe in case of fire.
Certainly she said. Last week
Bessie Carmody, of II South Ninth
street, who worked next to me, talked
about what would happen in case of
fire. We all knew that 1t was a dan
gerous building but trusted to God that
nothing would happen.
1T know that I shall never forget the
scene on Saturday; it was horrible and
I know that with proper care and
enough fire escapes the tragedy could
have been prevented"
Man Her Life Cushion.
Walter T. Fetzer. a member of the
Salvage Corps, who was holding the
life-net with other iremen at the fire,
bad his right shoulder dislocated by
one young woman. who jumped out of
a window of the fourth floor, falling
upon him. She struck On the right side
of his head and on the shoulder, and
he fell unconscious on the sidewalk
Comrades who carried him across High
street said that when he came to he
asked If a part of the wall of the old
building a fallen on him When he
told 1t was one OF the young
women that fell on him from the fourth
he asked If she was killed. He
was told that she was injured, but
might recover. He said:
Thank God. / pray that her life is
saved by her fall on me. for / will
recover In a month or So"
Mr.. Fetzer was seen at his home, 22s
Plane street, by an EVENING STAR
reporter today. when DR.. w. S. Baker
was about to dress the dislocated
shoulder. The doctor said to the re-
porter that the injured women at the
City Hospital told him this morning
that MIR. Fetzer was a brave man.
I'VE were holding the fire net to
catch the young women who began to
jump out Of the windows Of the fourth