New-York tribune., 1910-11-27

Mace looking at the dead and dying.
The smoke. driven by a high northerly
men. bravelv attempting to perform
1beir duty, stumbled over the dead and
helpless bodies All the time houies
came hurting through the air from the
windows above. Some landed in the
nets. but they came so thick and iast
that the firemen couldn't catch more
shan half of them. Once five booles
struck the net simultaneously.
Body ImpaIed on Picket
ora of the victims who had leapeo
from a window on the top floor was I'M
,,.1a6 on q picket fence adjoining the
wind swept down on the scene, ana ife-
building, and her body hung ins
TO and fro for minute. untli 'fie piehN'
broke from the weight and the ioihi
f;,nbIed TO the ground In seVeraA ~
stances girls who jumped alighted on the
be1nless forms of those who had met
their death on the pavement below
While the air was filed with the out
cries OF the injured the spectators on liie
opposite side OF the street saw a slrl ap-
near at one of the fourth floor WINDOWS
about midway on the High street sioe'
Her hair was ablaze and flames were
darling from behind her Before the
s7renen could stretch their net she
leaned out. and her body turned over
end over in the air and then struck
heavily en- the sidewalk. Just then the
FIRE swept out through the window from
which she had jumped
Three clergymen arrived OF the scene
early and administered the last rites OF
the church. They were the Rev John A
Dillon. diocesan superintendent of paro-
cl1ial schools. and the Rev. John E kier-
nan and the Rev. William ?. Brennan,
cllrates Of the Newark Cathedral
soon after the sounding OF the third
alarm the police reserves We're called out
and e serr7biance Of order was preserved.
Indignant spectators openly criticised
the authorities for allowing such made
Quate Ere escapes on the building. Prose-
cutting Attorney Mott when he viewed
the fire. said:
"Why. it's a fire trap, Just think Of
those little fire escapes up there. Look
at that narrow doorway-the exit
Seek. Grand Jury investigation.
r
Gently appointed by Governor Fort, was
present. but refused TO make any state
rI7ent Henry Hebeler. q member OF the
inquest, said that the grand jury would
be asked To take up the disaster at its
next sitting.
The committee on construction and
alteration of buildings OF the Common
Council is TO blame for this" he declared
hotly. Buildings have been erected late
y where the owners have not been COM
PEELED to provide fire escapes
At 3 o'clock eight bodies had been
taken from the smoulderine ruins in a
corner Of the top floor that had not fallen
in. One was found almost upright in
what was left of a chair at a sewing
machine.
The northern end of the building, near
orange street, could not be reached. The
fremen were told not to venture inside
because the wallis were ready TO topple
over AT 3:30 o'clock the streams from
the water towers We're directed on the
walls and gradually the unsafe portions
were knocked down. Fire Chief Ashley
said that there We're at least five bodies
could be reached.
section OF the north wall fell late III
the afternoon. Joseph B. Sloane deputy
fire chief tripped over q fallen wire as
he was running for safety and was half
buried beneath a shower a bricks and
mortar He was taken TO the City Hos
pital suffering from broken rib and
several bad bruises He will recover
! Identification of Bodies Difficult.
j Many Of the firemen were overcome at
their work. Ambulances were called
from every part OF the city and were
hurried away loaded with the injured
and dying. Many Of the dead bodies
We're moved 10 vacant store before
being taken 10 the undertaking estab-
fFhment Of J. j Nullens in Washington
street which served as rnorgue
There were nine bodies in this estaf,-
ltshn1ert, and II was nearly 6 o'clock he
fore any Of them was identified. In the
excitement which attended the early ne
NOD Of the blaze. Identification was prac-
ttcally impossible. II IS believed that
there was little or no loss OF life below
The third floor. Possibly among the VIC
IlI1ls Is q little boy whose name is un-
known He Went 20 work a few davs
ago in the II sin factory, and vas said
TO have bee y the place when the fire
broke cut. has not been accounted
for
Alfred NJ Wolf, secretary of the Muslin
Un6ergarment Company, learned OF the
FIRE about il O'Clock. He nearly tainted
when he saw the bodies Of two girls
brought into the quarters OF Engine
Company +, opposite the blazing build
ing in High street. He later tried to
assist in the work Of Identification. but
he was too nervous. Late in the after
noon he sent TO New York for q payroll
containing the names OF one hundred
women and girls.
Before il o'clock County Physician
Mckenzie had viewed the bodies of MANY
of the victims. four OF which were in the
factory OF the Mansfield Chewing Gum
Company, across the street. and two in
Engine house No. / The features were
sc distorted by flames that they were
barely recognizable.
Employees Tried TO Extinsuish Fire.
The police learned that Eugene Nc.