The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-27
Several Others Missing and
It Is Feared That They
Have PeriShed.
GIRLS LEAP FROM FIRE TRAP
More Than Fifty Injured Taken
to the Hospitals, Some Of
Whom WIN Die.

A death dealing fire. the most serious
that has ever visited the city. occurred
in Newark Yesterday when the old Domes-
tic Sewing Machine building. at High AMI
Orange streets. burned to the ground.
Probably more than thirty girls and ons
bow employed in tho building met death
and fifty were taken To hospitals. Last
night twenty-three bodies had been re-
covered. and Of these seventeen had been
identified The identity of some NAV
never be determined To-day firemea
will begin a thorough search Of the ruins
to uncover bodice supposed still 20 he
there
A little after o clock Yesterday morn-
ing Sadie Hanson Of 20 Stone street, who
works for the Anchor Lamp Company
on the third floor. was cleaning n carbon
for lamp. She had been using gasolens
and somehow a switch near the machins
she worked ut spanked. There was a
puff as tho gAsolene vapor leaped into
flames and the girls clothing began ~
blaze. Others working in the same room
blaze in her clothing and subdue tho fire.
that was eating It's way along the floor
bv throwing on il bags Of sand. In this
way time was lost and the third floor was
pretty we'll afre when one OF the girls
ran over to the house of Engine Com
pany 4 across ths way and told Capt.
Darcie Van Nolk.nburg that there was a
| fire in the factory. The captain te.-
phoned in an alarm and with several Of
the men in his company hurried 20 the
building He FASTENED to the third floor.
bu, by the time he had reached the land
ing his way was cut of by smoke and Ia
had 10 retreat into the open. There were
| four floors in the building and from above
| the first escape was cut of.
When the fremen reached the street
again smoke was pouring from the win
dows Of the top story and tn. easements
were filed with young women W no sought
escape.
We're all firemsn here cried Van
volkenburg and we'll help you. Don't
jump. the trucks " III he here IN a minute
Fir. Truck ,. only two blocks away,
arrived. and ladders wer. run up TO what
windows could h, reached The girls
| piled from the windows near the fire
| cape on High street onto that steel ladder
and damned their way down AZ tina
lower landing there was a fifteen foot
space which an emer gency ladder sus-
pended OH hooks was designed TO cover.
Th.. girls were unabl. to lift the ladder
| r. e
Brown went to i nearby store and got a
stepladder which he placed under tho
| last landing OF the fire escape ard helped
the girls down Already SOME Of thos.,
at the upper windows had jumped
| Three priests. the Rev. John \. Dillon.
diocesan superintendent of parochiai
schools: 'h. Rev John f. Herman and ths
Rev William p Brennan. from 81 Pat
ricks Cathedral. learned that some ~
their parishioners wer. employed in ths
place and they hurried To the fire They
| minist.r.d TO thos. who had already
| iunped or had been carried out and y hen
10 was evident that others still IN tho
! building must Perish they raised their
hands Tn" hundreds who had already
| gathered about the building hust them-
selves into sicnC. hen the cler Rymcn
! reno owed their hats and prepared To- give
condIt ional absolution Tn. crowd was
| so still that th. priest = Ego vos absolve'
could be- heard above the cracking flames
and IN. kissing streams from the fire.
no2zles
News Of the fire had spread and tbs
streets about the building were black
" ith men and women Many OF them
| were fated to see their children burned
to death before their eyes. A white haired
man. unmindful Of the spray Of water
that glanced from the walls knelt on ths
pavement and bcsougbt God TO save his
daughter Women fought with the police
10 get through the lines and tore at the
patrolmen's uniforms in n frenzied effort
to reach their kindred. Again and again
the police had 20 drive the crowd back
/ TO make room for the bodies that the fire.
Zen were carrying out
Twenty minutes after the fire had
started all escape was cut OF for the girls
employed on the third and fourth Goors.
They gathered ut tho windows and many
Of them jumped. Firemen with nets
tried TO catch them. Net squads ran
/ from window 90 window wherever they
Jaw a white form darling down through
/ the thick ening smoke On parapee
stood four girls. They waited until q
sheet Of fiame breaking through a ven
J tilator forced them to the edge. and
cIasping their arms about one another
! Jumped The fire net broke and all
werc killed.
| At n fourth story window a girl stood
with hair ablaze. Several times sha
! appeared about TO leap. hut held back.
| Driven forward by the smothering smoke
she jumped and struck the pavement
! - u n L. a
at the machine where she worked. From
the appearance OF the body when the
! first OF the rescuers penetrated into
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