Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-27
Terror Stricken Women Perish
MiserabIy in Blazing Smoke
Filled Structure or Leap to
Death on Pavement Below.
DEATH LIST PLACED AT
TWENTY-FIVE; FIFTY HURT
Narrow Red Hot Ladders Offer
Only Avenue of Escape for
UnfortunateS Penned in the
Flaming Fire Trap.
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Newark. \. j.. NOV. 26.--In ten
minutes twenty-five girls were
burned alive this morning, or crushed
to death on the pavement in leapins
from the windows and fire escapes Of
the fcur-story building ut Orange
and High streets. Occupied on the tor
floor BY an underwear manutacfur-
inc concern. Here tie death list was
heaviest. The lower floors We're oc-
sppied by two paper box concerns
and two electrical fixture factories
The latest count tonight shows that
twenty of the twenty-five bodies re-
cctered have been Identified and that
SIX gl.is ;.te ,uissinS fhcs may ps
among the unidentified dead or yet
in the ruins. The collapse Of wall
tonight interrupted further search.
Fifty were taken 10 hospital al
whom two may die. Among the IN
iured is Joseph Il. sloan, deputy IRE
chief. who WAS oveTtaken by the tall-
mg wall and buried in brick and rub
bish. He is badly hurt. but may re-
cover,
The rush Of the flames was so sWl!l
and threw such tern or INTO lhe SlTls
on the top story that the body ol one
was found still seated on q charred
stool beside the machine at which she
had been busy when the FIRST cry OF
fire petrified her with fright
Horrible as must have been whai
went ON in the smoke o1 the crowded
upper room. what berell outside in
the bright sunlight WAS more nor
rble.
The building was exceedingly in
Tammahle ana the first gush OF
flames had cut off all escape by the
stairways
The elevators made one trip, but
tock down no pa ssengers ana never
came back. The only exit was pl
two narrow fife escapes, the ioWei
platforms cf which were twenty-five
feet from the street,
Upcn these evercrowded and steep
lanes. scurched dancing bot by iile
jets from the lower windows, presseu
forward ~ mob Of women, blind WIN
panic, driven by the fire ana the
cthers behind them
4 net had been spread beneath the
windows, and the girls began TO jump.
Like rats out 90 burning nin'
was the way fireman desefipCu thV
descent
They came out Of the windows llke
thiek trea kle. rolled upon the heads
81 those below them and cascaded on
tar urr escape to the pavement s'N'N
feet below.
Some of them stood in the window
outlined against the flames ana
Jumped clear: others from the land-
ings; sin others from the steps
where they stood The air was tuil
Of them and they fell everNwhere-
into the net. on the neck OF iiremen'
d. and fifteen Of them on the hard stone
slabs.
When the awful rain ceased, there
Wee eight dead in the street anu
the cutters ran red. Seven more
were SO badly crushed they died IN
hospitals.
Fifty are still under surgical care
TIE Dead.
SADIE HAUSO.
SARAH CREERAN.
GERTRUDE DENTON.
MILDRED WALTERS.
SOPHIA MADUSkN.
IDA WOOL SEY.
NARY KAVANACGH
ROSE CLEARY.
ROY DAVIDSON.
THERESA TORTORELI-A.
Mrs. MARY KEARNS.
SoPHlA NICLlWAk.
MATILDA OTTO.
KATHERINE DIEHN.
CARRIE PDBRECUT
MRS. FRANCES KItATHlA.
AbBIE WASHINGTON
MRS. ALICE HEI-ZEN.
MRS. BESSIE ROSfNG.
MRS. MARY La PIERRE.
Clouds OF smoke and showers %
burning emhers rained down oi
heighboring roofs. A. thc news fleW
Panic spread TO other factories, wher'
many OF the girls in peril had trienn'
and relatives. and several firms nae
To shut down for the day. Thou
sands locked To the fire and mad'
the work of the firemen and poiie'
more difficult.
Italian silk workers fell in tn
fueets and prayed.
friests and ciere, men worked thet
Way through the press TO give ia
H.st consultations To- these OF thei
0iiierent faiths.
Nmbulances and ambulances, com
htHNyesrtu fttfs .aptar.rrr,.sNI service