Arizona republican., 1910-11-27

Newark, x. J, Nov. 26.--In ten min- utes, twenty five girls were burned alive this morning or crushed to death on the pavement by leaping from the windows and fire escapes of a four story factory building.
 On the top floor. occupied by an un- derwear manufacturing concern, the death list was the heaviest. The lower floors Were occupied by two paper box concerns and electrical fixture fac tories
 Tonight twenty of the twenty-five bodies have been recovered and .identi- fled. and six girls are still missing They may be among the unidentified dead or vet in the ruins. The collapse of wall tonight interrupted further search. Fifty were taken to hospitals, of whom two may die. Among the in jured are Joseph F.. Sloane, deputy fire chief. who was overtaken by falling wall and buried in the bricks and rub bish. He was badly hurt but may re- cover.
 The rush of the flames was so swift and threw such terror into the girls on the top story that the body of one was found still seated on a charred stool be- side the machine, at which she had been busy when the first cry of fire petrified her with fright. Horrible as were the scenes inside of the burning building, they were ex- ceeded by those on the outside. The building was exceedingly inflammable and the first gush of flame cut off all escape by the stairways.
 The elevators made one trip. but took down no passengers. The only exit was by fire escapes, the lower plat forms of which were twenty-five feet from the street. On to these over crowded and steel lanes, scorehed hot by jets from the lower windows, pressed forward a mob of women blind with panic, driven by fire and others behind them A net had been spread beneath the windows and the girls be- gan to jump
 BUT ONE DESPERATE CHANGE.
 Like rats out of burning bin,' was the way a fireman described their de scent They came out of the windows like thick treacle rolled upon the heads of those below them and cascaded off the fire escape to the pavement sixty feet below Some stood in the win dows outlined against the flames and jumped clear, while others jumped from the landings and 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 the fire men. and fifteen on the hard stone steps
 When the awful rain ceased there were eight dead in the street and the gutters ran red. Seven more were so badly crushed they died in the hospit- als. Fifty are still under surgical care The dead are: SADIE HAUSO SARAH CREERAH.
 GERTRUDE DENTON. LILLIAN WALTERS. SOPHIA MADUSKY. IDA WOOLSEY. MARY KAVANAUGH. REY DAVIDSON.
 ROSE CLEARY.
 THERESA TORTORELLA.
 MRS. MARY KEARNS. SOPHIA NICLIWAK- MATILDA OTTO.
 KATHERINE DIEHN. CARRIE POBRECHT.
 MRS. FRANCES KRATHIA. ABBIE WASHINGTON.
 MRS. ALICE NELSON.
 MRS. BESSIE ROSING.
 MRS. MARY LA PIERRE
 Clouds of smoke and showers or burning embers rained down on neigh boring roofs. As the news flew, panic spread to other factories, where many girls in peril had friends and relatives Several firms had to shut down for the day. Many silk workers knelt in the streets. Priests worked their way through the crowd to give the last con- solatiOns to the dying. Before any order could be restored. every police reserve in the city had been called out. It was not until to- night that estimates of the property loss could be ventured. The fire de- partment estimates it at $165,000. The wooden floors were soaked with