Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-26
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girl. but 1t was not until her father
Joseph Diehm, came home at noon thai
she cuieted down.
A few minutes later Clara, thu
23-year-old daughter OF the family, cam
home, being led there by neighbors
She. also. was hysterical and could give
no connected account Of what had hap
pened In the Inflated building. A.
about the same time word came to tn
family that Catherine, the eldest daugh
ter of the family, was in the City Hos
pital, suffering from injuries that ma,
prove serious. Catherine had jumped
to the street from the fourth floor
Clara IA one of the fortunate one.
that reached the fire-esoape in time t.
get down before the outpouring flames
cut off all chance of escape by thai
route.
II do not know how / made my way
down the ire-escape.' sobbed Clara,
There was fire all around me, blu
somehow I managed to get down.
think a fireman helped me after l had
reached the third floor. but l amt
sure"
Word from the City Hospital was
received by the Diehm family at 9
o'clock that Catherine Dfenm woulo
probably live, n there was great re-
joieing, but all afternoon Sophie and
Clara Diehm were asking in a hySterl-
cal What happened, and
how does 1t come we are all alive?"
Stories of narrow escape from this
mornings big fire are thrilling III the
extreme. Survivors believe hat the
death list may run far beyond fifty.
One of the most pitiful objects taken
To the City Hospital was the body of
Anna Rohn, of 1888 North Fifth street,
whose injuries are SO sever 1t is
thought she cannot cover Both of
her legs were broken in Jumping from a
window and her left arm suffered q
compound fracture that will mean am
putation. She also suffered conclusion
of the brain and numerous ligaments in
her body were torn.
Miss Rohn's sister is a graduate
nurse In a Paterson hospital. She hap
pened to be in town and is being al
lowed 10 attend Anna.
When the extent of the calamity be-
came known the night STAFF of nurses,
house physicians and orderlies Of the
OSliid were TOuScu anu lIiliucuiotCiy
set to work attending the injured.
Miss Jennie Gill, an employee of
Wolf. who was saved in the nick OF
time from jumping by the firemen OF
Truck No. 2, said she was In a room
on the fourth floor with Miss Anna
Hague, the forewoman; Miss Anna
Smith and Miss Augusta Ebert.
Miss Hague discovered smoke and ran
to a window Panic-stricken, by the in
creasing volume of the vapor. she
mounted to the sill and plunged into
space.
Terror-stricken, Miss Gill watched
her friend and then went to a fire.
escape on the side of the factory. She
had no sooner reached the outside all
than flames shot out of the third story
and nearly communicated with hel
dress. She was about to leap when thu
firemen raised UP a ladder and brough'
her down.
Miss Gill made q search for Mis-
/ Hague, but WAS unable to find her
whereupon she examined the corpses
some of which were taken to the quar-
tiers of Engine No. 4, across the street
With the exception of two girls en-
| ployed by the Aetna Lamp Company a
! the employees on the first n secon'
| f,oors of the building escaped eithe
by means of the exits or the n fire
escape on the north End of the building
The two girls employed on these floor
who were burned were Sadie Hanson
20 stone street, and Mrs. Margare
Molanthy, address not Known. The.
sustained burns about the hands an
face.
Hurt Jumping Into Net.
Hattie Delaney was one OF the girl
to jump from the fourth ioor. Sh
landed in a hremen's net, but was quit
badly hurt. Sophie Diehn, who fol
lowed her, sustained a sprained ankle
She was able to go to her home a
131 Norfolk street, after treatment q
the hospital.
The features of the victims were $
marred by fire and wounds from tn
falls that they were scarcely recogni7
able.
One of the spectators said that g
least fifteen girls had jumped from til
fourth floor of the burning structure.
They stayed at the windows unit
frenzied by the flames behind them an
nearly ~suffocated by the smoke, the
leaped to the street.
There were three alarms sem OF
close upon each other and the ambu
lances from the City Hospital and til
patrol wagons from all the precinct
were dispatched to the scene.
An immense crowd congregated an
1t took the police reserves from tn
First, Second, Third, Fourth and Sixt
precincts to handle the situation.