The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-27
Those Who Are Not Burned to Death Are Killed
 By Jumping
MANY HEROIC ACTS ARE
 PERFORMED BY RESCUERS
and Girls af Machines Do Not Receive Warning in Time
 to He Saved

Newark, N. J.. November 26-In 10 minutes % girls were burned alive today, or crushed to death on the pavement in ieaping from the windows and fire es- capes of a four-story brick paper bag factory at Orange and High streets. Twenty of the 20 bodies recovered have been identified and five girls are still missing. They may be among the un- identified they may be in the ruins. The collapse of a wall tonight inter- rupted further search
 Fifty were taken to hospitals of whom two may die Among the injured is Jo- seph E Sloan, deputy fire chief, who was caught by the falling wall and buried ia bricks and rubbish. He is badly hurt | but may recover.
 The rush of the flames was so incred- ibiy 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 charred stool beside the machine at which she had been busy when the first cry of "Firev' petriied her with fright. Escape Is Cut or The building was extremely infiamma- | Die and the first gush of flames cut off all possible escape by the stairways. The elevators made one trip, but took down no passengers. The only exit was by 1 tive narrow fire escapes, the lower plat 1 form of which was 20 feet from the | street. Onto these overcrowded and steep | lanes, scorched with heat from lower wiEdows, pressed forward mob of wom- en, blind with panic, driven by the fire and the others behind them A net had been spread beneath the | windows and the girls began to jump, | like rats out of a burning bin," was the way fireman described the pell- mell descent. They crawled out of the Il windows, rolled down on the heads of
 those below them and fell to the pave
 ment 60 feet below. Some of them stood
 in the windows outlined against the
 flames and jumped clear; others from the
 landings; 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 15 of
 them on the stone slabs. When the aw- ful plunges ceased there were eight dead
 in the street and the gutters ran red.
 Seven girls were so badly crushed that
 they died in the hospitals. Fifty are still
 under surgical care.
 Twenty Identified
 The identified dead:
 Sadie Hanso.
 Sarah Creeran.
 Gertrude Denton.
 Mildred Walters.
 Sophia Madusky.
 | Frances Krathia.
 Abbie Washington
 | Mrs. Alice Mezen. | Mrs Bessie Resin.
 Mrs. Mary Laperre. | Ida Woolsey. | Mary Kavanaugh.
 | Rose Cleary.
 | Roy Davidson.
 | Theresa Tortorella.
 Mrs. Mary KeaIns
 Sophia Nicliwak.
 Matilda Otto.
 Katherine Diehn
 Carrie Probrecut
 AS the news few-and it lost nothing in the tellfng-panic spread to other fac tories, where many of the girls in peril had friends and relatives and several firms had to shut down for the day Am balances and automobiles. communicated for emergency service were hurrying in lorposlte streams to the hospitals and back again. Police Reserves Called Out
 Before any semblanee of order could be restored every police reserve in the city had been called out and it was not until | tonight that an estimate of the property loss could even be ventured. The fire de- partment now guesses sl65. 900, but no statement from the owners and tenants is yet available. | The building was occupied on the lower floors by the Newark Paper Box com pany and the A. A. Drake Paper Box | company; on the third floor, where tho | fire started, by the Anchor Lamp com pnny and the Aetna Electric company, and on the top floor, where the death list ran heavy, by the Wolf Manufacturing company makers of underwear The | wooden floors were soaked with oil drip pings from the machinery and the flames ate their way through them like paste board. When they warped and weak ened, the weight of the machinery tore them from the walls and they fell into the basement In horrible tangle of hot iron and mangled humanity. | Sadie Henson, an employe of tho | Aetna Electric company, was clean ing an electric light fixture in a gas oline bath. The gasoline took fire | she does not know how-and trickled | in little rivulet of flame onto the floor. where stood full can of gaso- 1 line. The can exploded and the burn tng liquid flew far and wide. Lewis Coxe, an employe of the box factory on the second floor. was standing in the hallway at the time of the expio- | sion.
 The shock was strong enough he says, to hurl him against the wall. | but the girls upstairs at their whirring sewing machines heard nothing | One Girls Account Gertrude Maibauer, one of the girls who kept her head and was saved by jumping from the fire escape into the | life net. told of what she saw.
 T think there were about S5 of us | in Wolfs factory, most of us oper- kting sewing machines she said, | When all the machines are running they make terrific roar We did not | hear the explosion. If there was any shock we did not feel it. The floor is always trembling from the jar of the machines I'd just got up from my machine to go for a. drink. of ter when l saw smoke curling from between the blanks of the floor girl in the back of the room shrieked Fire The elevator man came up, stuck his head through the door and called: Don't be afraid, girls; there is no danger Then he shut the door and Ithat was the last We saw of him.
 'T have no idea of how long 1t took these things to happen The next