Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-29
Miss Anna Haag Dies at
City Hospital
Today.
FOREWOMAN GAVE LIFE
TO SAVE MANY OTHERS
Change for Worse Comes Sud-
denly and Death Soon
Follows.

newark IriSnlIul factory disaster
claimed it's twenty-fourth known vic
tim, when Miss Anna Haag, the heroic
forewoman of the fourth floor, sue
cumbed to her injuries at the City
Hospital.
That Miss Haag gave her life in the
futile effort to save the girls employed
beneath her there is no doubt, but
until after l o'clock this morning it
had been hoped that the extreme
sacrifice would not be required of her,
for her condition, though serious.
seemed to be improved. Still, her
broken limbs, the injured back and the
cuts and bruises she had suffered in
her headlong leap to the street We're
known to be so serious the watch of
the nurses could not be relaxed.
Her Life's Final Flicker.
So it came that both nurse and a
doctor were at her bedside at 1;So
o'clock this morning.
Miss Haag suddenly turned TO the
physician.
Il feel easier, doctor" she said with
a wan smile. Then she turned her
bruised body to an easier position ana
was apparently about to sleep.
Within five minutes she was dead.
The physicians and nurses worked des-
rerately to no avail
Since the moment of the fire cry the
intrepid woman had been kept up on
nerve and pure mental bravery. When
the relaxation of the shock came the
overworked heart simply refused to do
more
Immediately after death, Edward
Haag. the brother of the dead girl. was
summoned from his home, at 1904 Tenth
street in Reading, Pa.
He had been waiting to hurry to his
sisters side at moments notice, but
the change for the worse had come too
quickly.
VIII Mark Heroiue's Grave.
The remains OF Miss Haag will be
sent to Reading for burial and friends
who knew of the splendid battle she
made to save the lives of "her girls" at
the great disaster, were making ar
rangements this morning to mark her
resting place with such a tribute that
the last resting place of the. heroine
ehall mot be forgotten, for it is known
that the forewoman spurned at least
half dozen chances of escape herself
that she might rescue others from the.
flames.
She was in the centre of the fourth
floor, in charge of all the girls at work
there, when the first startled cry went
up.
She saw at once the danger of the
panic rushes that would be made for
the unprotected windows, for the slen-
der fre-escapes and for the narrow
stairway door.
Her orders Fell Deaf Ears.
And when her orders to the girls to
be calm fell upon deaf ears she rushed
among the frightened, crushing work
ers, pulling them back from the win
dows, forming them in line at the
stairway, fighting almost alone to stem
the panic rush that a score could not
have stemmed.
How many lives she saved will, of
course, never be counted, but that
MANY who escaped owe their safety to
her there is no doubt.
Finally, however, when there was
nothing more than any could do. Miss
Haag was found by Stella Hodurek, a
girl who was herself almost suffocated,
trying vainly to save her aunt, Mrs.
Frances Konseka. in the midst of the
smoke and flame.
The foreWoman seized both girl and
elder woman and dragged them to-
ward the fre-escape. Just as they
reached it the panic-stricken woman
broke away and rushed back into the
centre of the room.
Tried to Save Books, Too.
Miss Haag calmly placed Miss Hodu-
rex upon the fire-escape and dashed
back herself to save the cornpany's
books.
She was not able. When she finally
leaped to the street she fell hard upon
the side of her body which was fright
fully mangled on the stones.
At ST. Michaers Hospital there are
Astill five fire victims. -Four will re-
hover but one is not expected to live.
he condition of Emma Doege. 1S years
d, Of IS Beech street, Arlington, is SO
lfical that the hospital authorities do
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