Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-29
LIKE RATS FROM
BIN GIRLS LEAP
To THEIR DEATH
Further Reports From New
ark Fire Add Two to Dead
liSt---SCenes Horrible Be-
yond Description
(By Associated Press

NEWARK, n. J., Nov. 26.-In. ten
minutes 25 girls were burned alive today,
or crushed to death on the pavement in
leaping from the windows and fire es-
capes of the four-story brick paper box
factory at Orange and High streets.
Twenty OF the "a bodies recovered have
been identified and four girls are still
missing. They may be among the uni
IDENTIFIED or they may be in the ruins.
Inc collapse Of wall tonight interrupt
ed furth err search,
Fifty were taken to hospitals, of
whom two may die. Among the injured
is Joseph E. Sloane, deputy fire chief
who was caught by the falling wall
and buried in bricks and rubbish. He
Is badly hurt, but may recover.
The rush of flames was so incred-
IDLY swift and threw such unreasoning
terror into the huddled working girls on
the top story, that the body of one was
found still seated on a charred stool be-
side the machine at which she had been
busy when the first cry of Fire petri-.
fed her with fright.
INFLAMMABLE BUILDING.
The building was extremely inflam-
mable and the first gush of flames cut
off all possible escape by the stairways.
down no passengers. The only exit was
platform Of which was 25 feet from the
street Onto these overcrowded and
steep lanes, scorched with heat from
lower windows, pressed forward a 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 a fireman described the pell
all WI Qd nj n
the windows. rolled down on the heads
OF those below them and fell to the
pavement so feet below. Some of them
stood in the windows outlined against
the flames and jumped clear; others from
the abiding; still others from the steps
where they stood.
The air was full of them and they
fell everywhere-into the net, on the
necks OF firemen and Is of them on the
stone slabs When the awful plunges
ceased there were eight dead in the
street and the cutters ran red. Seven
girls were so badly crushed that they
died in the hospital. Fifty are still under
surgical care. A
THE IDENTIFIED DEAD.
The identified dead:
SADIE HAUSO.
SARAH CREERAN.
GERTRUDE DENTON. I
MILDRED WALTERS.
SOPHIE MADUSKY.
MRS. FRANCES KRATHIA.
SOPHIA NICLIWAK-
MATILDA OTTO. e
KATHERINE DIETiN.
CARRIE POBRECUT.
MISS ABBIE WASHINGTON
MRS. ALICE MELZEN.
MRS. BESSIE ROSIN.
MRS. MARY LA PIERRE.
IDA WOOLSEY.F ii .u
MARY KAyANAGH '-4F@.
ROSE CLEARLY. %
ROY DAVIDSON.
THERESA. TORTORELLA.
MRS. MARY KEARNS.
As the news flew-and IL lost nothing
in the telling-panic spread to other fac
tories. where many of the girls in peril
had friends and relatt, es and several
firms had to shut down for the day.
Ambulances and automobiles, comman-
deered for emergency service. were hur-
rying in opposite streams to the hospi-
tails and back again.
ALL POLICE CALLED OUT.
Before any semblance of order could be
restored every police reserve in the city
had been called out ana 1t was not un-
! til tonight that an estimate of the prop
erty loss could even be ventured The
| fire department now guesses $165,00O, but
no statement from the owners and ten
ants Is yet available.
! The building was occupied on the two
lower floors by the Newark Paper Box
company and the A. A. Drake Paper
Box company; on the third floor, where
the fire started by the Anchor Lamp
company and the Aetna Electric COM
pany, and on the top floor, where the
death list ran heavy, by the Wolf Man
ufacturing company, makers of under
wear.
The wooden floors were soaked with
oil drippings from the machinery and
the flames ate their way through them
like pasteboard When they warped
and weakened the weight of the machin>
cry tore them from the walls and they
fell into the basement in a horrible tan
gle of hot iron and mangled humanity.
DELAY CAUSED DEATH.
Fire Chief Ashley laid the response
bility for loss of life on delay in turn
ing in an alarm He says FIVE minutes
were lost in trying to fight the blazing
gasoline with sand in barrel. IF those
precious minutes had not been wasted
he almost sobbed. I'VE would not have
lost one single life"
Frederick Welmar. chief inspector of
the public prosecutors Office is making
an investigation to determine the re-
sponsfbility of the tenants and owners