The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-11-29
WAS DElALTEII'TR|AP
twenty-five :Youag Women Cruelty Burn.
ed or Csashea 10 Death
ON STONE. PAVEMENT "a !

ON STONE \ PAVEMENT
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Horrible Scenes Witnessed When
Young Women employed in Four
Story Factory Bnilding Attempt to
Escape from the Blazing Structure
by Leaping from Upper Stories.
At Newark. MI. Saturday MORN
ing. in tenjMinu ss,twenty-fTe iodng
women were burned alive or crush
ed to death on the pavement in leap
ling from the windows r,nd fire es
capes of the four3story brick factory
at the corner OF Orange and High
Streets. Fiftyswere taken to hospl-
! tails, two of whom may tlie. Among
the injured is@: Jose e. Sloan. a fire
chief, who was oyertaken by the fall
ins walls and buried In brick rub
bish.GG GG He Is badly hurt, but may re-
cover. =. ~ s,G -.
The rush OF the flames was 50 In
creditably swift and threw such un-
reasoning terror into. the huddled
working girls on the top story that
i'the; body ozone wasf found still seat
ed on chatEed stool beside the ma
chine at which she had been busy
when the first cry of "lEire:' petri-
fed her with fright
Horrible az. must have been what
went in the smoke iof that crowded
! upper room, what befell outside In
the bright sun1ights'waa more hor-
rible yet. The building was extreme
! ly intlammablef and ithe arst gush of
f., flames had cut off all possibility OF
escape by the 'stairways. The eleva-
! tors made one "trip, but. took down
no passengers and never came back.
| The only exit was by'tw0 narrow fire
escapes, the lower platforms of which
were 25 feet from the Pavement be-
low. i; '.2''.iSi 90 - = - ~.
On these; overcrowdea and steep
lanes, seorched, dancinug hot by the
jets from lower windows, pressed for
ward a mob of women blind with
panic, driven: By the fire and the 9TH
ers behind them. net had been
spread beneath the windows and the
girls began to jump. Like rats out
| of a burning bin, was the way q
fireman described the descent
They boiled out of the windows
like thick treacle, rolled on the
heads of those below them and cas-
caded off the fire escape to the pave
| ment so feet below. Some Of them
stood in The windows outlined against
the flames and jumped clear; others
from the landings; still others from
| the sters where they stood. The all
was full. OF them and they fell every
where-!nto the net. on the necks or
| tiremen, and Is of them on the
hard stone slabs.
When the awful rain ceased thee
were eight dead in the street and the
cutters ran red. Seven more were
so badly crushed that they died in
hospitals Fifty are still under sur
geons' care.
Clouds of smoke and showers Of
burning embers spread over the city
and rained down on neighboriIy
roofs. AS the news hew-and it
lost nothing in the telling-panE.:
spread to other factories where many
of the girls. in peril had friends and
lirelatives and several firms has; u
shut down for the day. Thousands
focked to the scene and made the
work of the iremen and police mora
difficult. Italian silk workers fe'i
in the street and PRAYED and lame:'1'
ed pitably.
Priests and clergymen *,rkeG
their way through the press u give
the last nsolatlCns to those Hc their
diNeren, faiths. Ambulance and
automobiles Communicated for eulei
gency ser"ice were hurryiag n oppo'
sitiou directions TO the hospitals a.
| back again.
The bjilding WAS 2 four 50
brick struluia - ,'0lcd on III I'VE
lower floors by the Newark t'apH!
box company aud the a. A. y .ie
aper Be: Co: or he th'r' Il )rr
where the fire s:artod, By the .t..chor
Lamp Cnl1pany aHr the .A.''n:, I:ltH.
trio ompany and or ihr top Eoor
where thu death list ran hea'irsi
BY the World Manufacturing com.
pany. makers Of underwear.
The wooden floors were soaked
with oil dripplDgs from the machln-
cry and the flames ate through them
like pastehonrd. When warped and
weakened the wei .ht Of nc ms
chinery t.. , t'.cu! from 'l'e ~,'''S and
they fell .nto the basement in !: 10:
rible tanglp of hol ron aE.t n:an@i'd
humanity.
Sadie Benson, an emplo"e Of the
Aetna Electric company, WAS clean
Ing an electric light fixture in Il
gasoline bath The gAso!ipe tnoii
! firt---she does not know hnw~a and
trickled in little ri"ulc: Of flames on
the floor. where stood full can o;
gasoline. The can exploded and tho