Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-29
KEPT IN
IGNORANCE Of
FIRE 10 MINUTES

aan into the building and gave an
alarm. Some of the seventeen en-
pioyees on the floor. had dashed water
On the young woman who was hand
]inS gasoline when it ignited n set
thef dress on fire. Others were throw
ing Sand on tho floor which had been
set on fire by the burning gasoline.
Smoke began to pou up the stairway
to the fourth floor and a boy ran up
to that floor to alarm the employees
and tell them not to jump out Of the
windows, but to run to O fire-escape
at the north end of the big room.
Those who worked on the second floor
ought to be called as witnesses also
and questioned as to what they saw
and heard.
Warning Would Have Saved All.
Il heard a girl who was employed
in the High street factory that was
burned Saturday morning tell a friend
that she thought if the minute the fire
started on the third floor, where she
was, the young women on the fourth
floor had been notified that there was q
fire below them nearly all could have
got out by the stairway to the third
floor" a young man said in a cafe
last night. She said, that when the
dress of the young woman who was
handling the gasoline on the third floor
caught fire from the burning gasoline
the other girls threw. water on her
clothes and also threw sand On the
oil soa floor that was burning. She
estimated that this was done for at
least ten minutes before any smoke
poured up the stairs to the fourth floor,
where more than 100 young woman and
S girls were working"
Another girl said that a man ran up
from the yard shouting that the build
ing was on fire and that everyone
should run to the street, and that a
fireman had time to get an extinguisher
from the house of Engine Company No.
4, on h west side Of High street, and
xun with 1t to the third story before the
girls t~here-about fifteen in number
had started for the street. She said
tha after smoke began to go up the
stairway to the fourth floor she saw
down the stairs under the black smoke
which rose above them.
Miss Ebcrt's Escape.
Miss Augustus Ebert, Of 1s9 South
Eleventh street, who got out of the
fourth floor by a fire-escape with the
other young women, said In the story
she told to a woman friend, who gave
It to the Evening STAR yesterday,
that she saw eight or nine. girls dash
downstairs to the third floor through
the smoke before flames began to come
I'D the stairway. She heard several
rolled down the stairs under the black
smoke by direction of q man who
shouted in to them. When flames be-
gan to come up the stairway with the
smoke Miss Ebert and two others ran
TO q fire-escape and got to the street.
She remembered now that the fire.
escape broke when she arrived at the
top of the first fioor and she n others
fell to the ground and were a little
bruised on their arms. She also re-
members seeing young women jump to
death or serious injury from the
fourth floor windows before she got
out of the crowd along the sidewalk,
and he awful scenes unnerved. her and
her companions. She did not see Miss
TIaag. the forewoman. or the boy, Roy
Dawson, after she got out of a win
dow to the fre-escape, because the
large fourth hoor was then almost
! filled with black smoke and fire also.
lEhe said she thought many of the girls
ASgot about the fire-escape ON the east
OF the building in their great
Miss Haag could lave got out
fire-eecape IL she had not re-
to aid and rescue others, and