The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-11-30
Was DEATH TRAP
twenty-five Young Women Cruelty Burn
ed or Crashed to Death
ON STONE PAVEMENT

ON STONE PAYEMENl
Horrible scenes Witnessed Whrn
Young Women Employed in Four
Story Factory Building Attempt TO
E>capc from the Blazing Structure
by Leaping from Upper Stories.
Al Newark. y. J.. Sa:uIILy E,.i:.-
i,- -. ;,a .ulnr - twenty-five ro.":
women were burned alive or crush
ed to death on the pavemen; ~ leap
ing from the windows and fire es
capes of the four-story brick factory
at the corner Of Orange and H!sn
Streets. Fifty were taken to hosp!-
tails. TWO OF whom may die Among
the injured is Jose z. Sloan. a h:e
chief. who was over:aken by the fall
ins walls and buried in brick rub
bish. He IS badly hurt. but may re-
cover.
Th. rush OF the flames was so IN
credi;abiy swift and threw such uE-
reasoning terror into the hudd!ed
WORKING girls on The top story that
the BODY Of one was found still seat
I'd OF 4 char-ed stool beside the ma
chine a; which she had been busy
when the first c.y OF Fire: pet.i'
fed her with fright
tIiorrible as must have been waa;
went in tie smoke OF that crowded
upper room. what betell outside n
the bright sunlight vas more hor'
rible yet. TIE building was extreme
iv inGammab'e and the first Sush o!
flames had cut of ali possibility OF
escape By the stairways. The eleva'
tors made one trip. but took dowE
no passengers and never came back
The only exi, was by two narrow hTs
escapes. the lower platforms OF which
| were 25 fee: from the pavement be
| low.
On these overcrowded and s,eei
lanes. scorched. dancinus hot b. tas
jets from lower windows. pressed for
! ward a mob OF women. blind with
panic. driven by the f-e and the ota
e.s behind them. 4 net had bee!
spread beneath the windows aad ;ae
c:irls began 20 jump. Like rats or
OF burning bin" was the way
fireman described the descent.
They boiled out 0: the window:
like a thick ;reacle. rolled on the
heads Of those below them and cas-
caded Of the FIRE escape 10 the pave
ment so feet below. Some OF then
! stood in :he windows outlined asaias
the flames aad ;-eaped clear: other
from the landings: still others from
the steps where the: stood. The a.
was full OF them and they fell every
where-inco the net. on the necks G
firemen. and Is Of them on th'
'.ard stone slabs.
When the awful rain ceased the,
were eight dead in the street and tn
cutters ran red. Seven more wer'
SO badly crushed that they died IL
hospitals. Fifty are still under SUI
geons' care.
Clouds OF smoke and showers o
burning embers spread over the cit.
and rained down on neiSh5oT!E!
roofs. AS the news few-and i
lost nothing in thS ;elling-pan'
spread to other factories where man
OF the girls in peril had friends Az
relatives and several SrUIs ha: =
shut down for the day. Thousand
focked to the scene and made III
work Of the fremen and police NOR
difficult. Italian silk workers fe.
in the street and prayed and !ame:.i
ed pitably.
Priests and clergymen *orke'
their way through the press 70 Civ
me last c nsolaticas To those of the!
different faiths. Ambulance an
automobiles commaudeored for eme.
sency ser:ice were hurryi3g n o2po
s!.ion directions TO the hospitals az
back again
The bdildins was ?. four 50.
brick st7u-,u,e a-~.-oied OF II t~'
lowe, floors By the Newark Pap'
oo1 company ard the a. 4. , 81
raper b.. Co: Oh he th'-S locc
where the tlre stared. By the .i..chc
Lamp Company aUd the ~: i:iec
trio company and on The top sooG
where thu death list ran hea"ie;,
by the World Manufacturing com
pany. makers Of underwear.
The wooden floors were sca&e'
with oil dr!ppings from the machin
cry and the flames ate through the.
like pasteboard When warped aat
! weakened. the weight oe 'cc ma
ch:nery t:.-e trek: from lie Wis AK
they fell .nto the basement IN ao-
rible tanS!e OF hot ron and :.:an:i''t
humanity.
Sadie Benson. an employe Of tn
Aetna Electric company. was clean
ing an electric light fixture in
gasoline bath. The gasoline iooi
dre-she does not know how-ant
trickled in little r!vuie: OF danes o!
the Aoor. where stood & !ull can o
gasoline. The can exploded AID tat
burning liquid flew .a- and wide
| Lewis Coke. an empioye OF the boz
factory on the second floor. va!
standing IN the hall at the time ..
the explosion The shock was siron:
enouch. he said. 20 hurl him aSainS
| the wall. hut the girls upstairs ii
their whirrins sewing machines die
not hear the explosion.
Fireman Brown. who turned II
The alarm. was 4; work directly oP-
posi:e the building. cleaning II;
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