Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-12-01
LAST BODY FOUND
IN RUINS Of FIRE
Estimate Of the Dead in Holo-
caust at Newark VIII
Stand at 25.
GIRLS JUMPED ALL AFLAME
Fireman across Street Did Not
Have Time to Get Apparatus
Out before Bodies Be.
gan to Fall.
GIRLS JUMPED ALL AFLAME

here tC-u.fht, only or" empiOye of the
Wolf Manufacturing company IS s,il
missing and IL now seems that last
niahts estimate of the death list in yes
terday mornings fire win stand at %.
Five additional identifcations were made
to-day. ariodS the bodies at tho NOR
que.
They arc. Minnie pottlieb, Is years
old: Tnlie Gottlcb 20 years old: Dora
Gottleh &c wears old; Charlotte Heckter.
j years Old. Mrs. Lucy Sullivan. % years
old
No bodies were found in the burned
building and Fire chief Ashley was con-
WINGED tonight that no more will be
found lie viii kecp his mon mt work.
however until the ruins have been turned
over brick by brick All approaches to
the scene were crowded while daylight
lasted with moving mass OF human
ity. 1t vas estimated that 4o".on0 sight
sccrs pushed against the police lines.
While the frcnen were digging among
the tumblcd walls. detectives from the
county prosecutors office were making
examinations of they own in an effort
TO determine responsibility for the loss
Of life. photographs ana measurements
were taken to be used in the official in
The factory was an old ono and tho
city authorities take the stand that
they cannot be held accountable for
any lack Of fire escapes tho mpuirl.
may reveal. They say they have ilr-
isdicti"n only over now BUILDINGS and
additions or alterations to thosr al
ready in use. Then they can enforce
the city ordinances. but in tho case
Of building already standine The
State law holds. ana that law. they
say, is less rigid than the more mod
crn city ordinances. No date for the
inquiry has yet been set
SATURATED WITH OIL.
The building was so years old and
was saturated with oil. The flames
spread with great rapidity and in a
few seconds after the first alarm
flames were bursting from every win
dow.
The two or three hundred women
employed on the four floors of the fac
tory were panic stricken. 1t is likely
enough that if they had kept their
presence of mind more of them
might have been saved. But in any
case there mus have been a terrible
loss Of life, as there were only two
fire escapes of the ordinary type. That
is all the law requires, 50 the Newark
authorities say. Thcrcaftcr the hor-
ror cannot be laid AT the door of any
one IN particular.
The flames burst out just In that part
of the building where the fire escapes
We're. The girls on the fourth noor
among whom all the deaths occurred.
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JUMPED OUT ALL AFLAME.
From every window all over the build
ing a stream OF women began to fall
through the air few let themselves
down from the window suls and hung
4or n second or two before they LET 90
Others sprang out hand I'm hand with
cor,epiors Here ond ,here a woman
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