Norwich bulletin., 1910-11-28
100000 Visitors
 At Factory Fire
ALL DAY SUNDAY FIREMEN
 SEARCHED THE RUINS.
NEWARK FACTORY BURNED
Women Employees in Panic Dropped and Jumped from Windows of Fourth FIoor-HorribIe Scenes.

Newark, N. J., Nov. 27-Twenty- five women and girls were killed, at 1 least forty were injured, ard an un- known number are missing as the re- l suit of fire which destroyed fac- tory building at High and Orange streets, Newark, in few minutes yes- terday morning. The building was fifty years old and was saturated with oil. The flames spread with great ra- pidity, and in 8 few seconds after the first alarm flames were bursting from every window.
 300 Women in the Factory. The two or three hundred women employed on the four floors of the factory were panic stricken. It is likely enough that if they had kept their presence of mind more of them might have been saved. But in any case there must. have been 8 terrible loss. of life, as there were only two ire escapes of the ordinary type. That is all the law requires, so the Newark authorities say. Therefore the horror cannot be laid at the door of any one in particular.
 Huna from Windows, Calling for Help
 The flames burst out just in that part of the building where the fire escapes were. The girls on the fourth floor, among whom all the deaths oc- cured, seem to have assumed at once that they could not pass the third floor. where the fire began. and found that they were also unable to descend by the iron ladder.
 They ran to the windows and hung out six or seven at each of them, shouting and imploring for help. A station of the fire department was ae- tually across the street from the fac tory, but so rapidly did the building go up that the men there had no time to get their apparatus out. Even as fhaxy cad ,at. n,J,- ', T out with ladders the end came. First one and then another girl hurled her. self from window. Most of them seemed to have hesitated until their clothes were actually alight. and then with despairing cries they jumped.
 But One Unidentified Body.
 Newark, N. J.. Nov. 27.-Only one unidentified body remains in the morgue here tonight, only one en- ploye of the Wolf Manufacturing com pany is still missing, and it now seems that last nights estimate of the death list from yesterdays factory fire will stand still ats 25. Five additional among the bodies at the morgue. They are Minnie. Gottiieb,- Ti1ies Gettlieb, Dora GottIieb, Charlotte Heck1er. Mrs. Lucy Sullivan.
 Bremen Digging Among Tumbied
 Walls.
 
 No bodies were found in the burned building and Fire Chief Atsley was convinced tonight that no more will be found. He will keep his men at work, however, until the ruins have been turned over brick by brick All approaches to the scene were crowded while daylight lasted with moving mass of humanity. It was estimated that 100000 sightseers pushed against the police lines. @
 While the firemen were digging among the tunlhled walls, a staff of detectives from the county prosecu- tors office were making examinations of their own in an effort to deter mine responsibility for the loss of life.
 Photographs and measurements were taken to be used in the official in- quiry that will be held later.
 City Authorities Say They Cannot Be
 Held Accountable.
 The factory was an old one and the city authorities take the stand that they cannot be held accountable for any lack of fire, escapes the inquiry may reveal. They say they have ju- risdiction only over new buildings and additions or alterations to those al- ready in use; then they can enforce the city ordinances. but in the case of building already standing the state law holds, and that law, they say, is less rigid than the more mod ern city ordinances. No date for the inquiry has yet been set