The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-11-27
EITHER BURNED TO DEATH OR
KILLED az LEAPiNG FROM
4 WINDOWS TO PAVE
MENT.
EXPLOSION OF CAN
OF GASOLINE CAUSE
Disaster at Newark, N. J.--Six Miss
ing, Believed to bo in Ruins
Fifty Girls Under Care
Of Surgeons at the
Hospitals.

newark, ~, W, NOV. 1Ht ~ 49,
minutes twentyfoir girls were burn
cd alive this morning, nr crushed ts
death on the pavement III leaping
from the windows and fire escape OF
a fourstory building. brick factory
on Oraree ami High streets The
count tonight shows that sixteen OF
the twenty-four bodieE recovered nave
been identified and tnat six girls are
still missing They map be among
the unidentified dead or In the ruias
Fifty were taken TO hospif als. OF
whom two may die.
The rush of the flames was So
swift and so terrorized were the
g;;---.s on the top story that the body
OF one was found still seated on
charred stool beside her machine.
Scene Most Horrible.
Horrible as must nave been the
scenes in the smoke crowded upper
roour, what befcll outside in the brigh.
sunlight was still more horrible Tho
building was furiously infiammable.
and the first gush uf flames had cu-
cff ali possible escape by the stai-'
ways The elevators made one tFip.
took down no passengers and never
canc Track The only exit was hy
Two narrow FIRE escapes. the lower
platforms OF which were twenty-five
feet from the street.
On 10 these, scorched by The bot
jets of fame from the windows, press
ed forward the mob Of women. blind
with panic driven by the fire and
others behind them
A net had been spread beneath the
windows, and the girls began to
| jump.
Like rats out of burning bin"
was the way the 6remen deseribes
that descent They poured out OF
the windows IN stream. rolled upor
the beads of those below them an.
cascaded Off 10 escape TO the paw
ment sixty feet below Some stooc
at HE windows, 2utliued against t1it
! flames, anj Jumped c;ear Of the spec
tators from the landing: others from
the steps where they stood,
Cutters Ran Red
4 The air was full Of them and ey
fen everywhere. into the net, on ne
nccks Of the framen. AMI fif.@en ~
\ them on the hard stone slabs When
the awful rain ceased there We're
eight dead In the street, and the grt.
ters ran rcd
Seven more were 50 badly crushed
that they died in he hospitals. Fifty
are still under surgical care
The building was a four.story struc.
ture, occupied on the two lower floors
by The Newark Paper Box Company
and the A. A. Drake Paper Box Con-
pany: on the third 1oor, whore tta
! fire started, by the Anchor Lam !
Company and the Actin a Electric
Company, and on the top floor. where
Z the death list ran heavy. by the Wo,s
Manufacturing Company, makers O.
underwear The wooden floors wef~
soaked with oil dgippings from the
macnuery, anf tho flames ate thest
way through them AS II they were
pasteboari when they warped and
weakened, the weight OF the maehin-
ery tore them from the walls and they
. fell Va the basement In horrible tan
gle Of hot iron ANA mangled human
ity
Gasoline Can Exploded
Sadie Benson, an empIoye Of the
: Aetna company vas cleaning an
electric light fixture in gasoline
bath The gasoline took fire. she
does not know how. and trickled in a
little rivrlet Of fame onto the floor.
where stood full can OF gasoline.
The can exploded and the burning II
uuld few far and wide The girls
upstairs. AT the whirring machines.
heard nothing.
Gertrude Maihauer, one of the girls
who kent ber heal and was saved by
jumping into a life net, said:
II think there We're about S5 Of us
F, Nv VOLTS factory. most az us ore at
ng sewing machines When all the
machines are running they make q
terrific roar. ! had inst got mn from
my machine 10 ret a drink Of wafel
when I saw smoke curling from he
tween the planks In the floor. A cir
IN the back or the room screamed fire