The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-03-30

Two women fell into the net at airnpyA
the same moment.
The strands parted and the two we're
added to the death list. A girl threw
her pocketbook, then her hat, then ner
furs from a tenth ioor window. AZ
me later her body came whfrIing
after them to death.
AT a ninth floor window a man and n
woman appeared. The maj embraced
the woman and then kissed her. Then.
he hurled her to the street and iurnpea,
a pane OF glass, dropped in a Struggling
tanele and We're crushed into a shape
less mass.
Misses Net; Breaks Back.
A girl on the eighth Dol leaped for
a fireman's ladder which reached only
to the sixth floor. She missed. struck
the edge of the life ne. and was picked
up with her back broken.
From one window a girl about Is
years old, a woman q man and two
women with their arms. about one an
other, threw themselves to the ground
in rapid succession.
The little girl was hurried to the New
York hospital in an automobile. She
screamed as the driver and a policeman
lifted her in the hallway. A surgeon
came out, gave one look at her face and
touched her wrist. She is dead" he.
said.
One girl jumped into a horse blanket
held by fremen and a policeman. The
blanket ripped like cheesecloth and her
body was mangled almost beyond
recognition.
Another dropped into a tarpaulin held 4
by three men. Her weight tore it from :
their grasp and she struck the street,
breaking almost every bone in her,
body.
Almost at the same time a man.
somersaulted down upon the shoulder
of a policeman holding the %tarpaulin.
He glanced off, struck the sidewalk and
was picked up dead.
Many Saved by Elevator.
Within the building on the eighth.
floor q man stationed himself at the
door of one of the elevators and with
a club kept back the girls who had
stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty
We're taken down as fast as possible.
The call for ambulances was fol-
lowed by successiv. appeals for police
until 500 patrolemen arrived to cope
with the crowd, numbering tens OF
thousands mixture of the morbidly
curious and of half crazed relatives
and friends of the victims. A hundred
mounted policemen had to charge the
crowd repdeately to keep it back.
Led by Fire Chief Croker, a crowd
OF firemen stormed the stirways and
gained access to the building at z
o'clock. Two searchlights from ths
building opposite lighted the way of
the fire fighters as they assembled to
the top floors.
Fifty charred bodies were found on
tie ninth floor. They lay in every pos
sible posture, some so burned thae
recognition was impossible. A half
dozen We're nude, with flesh hanging
In shreds to the bones. Women with
their hair burned away, with here and
there a limb burned entirely off, and the
derby from the debris wrapped in OIL
cloths and lowered by puiieys 10 th~
street.
Across the street there rested on the
sidewalk 100 pine collins into which
We're placed the bodies. AS fast as this
done the collins were carried away
In any kin of a vehicle that could ba-
PRAISED into service to the morgue at
Bellevue hospital and to the Charities
pier morgue, opened for the first time
since the Slocum horror.
Means Of Exit Cut OFF.
All of them proved almost useless
and practically all who escaped either
climbed to the roof and scrambled
thence to the roof of the building oc-
cupied by the American Book company
adjoining, or fled in the first rush for
safety before the crush and the smoke
grew too thick.
The building stands today with shelf
intact and barely Scared, rather only
smudged, the partitions OF architectural
thing between floor and floor are
sound. and it is impossible for one.
who did not see it to imagine how
the flames in SO short a space of time
could have wrought such havoc.
Seven hundred hands, 500 of them.
women, were employed by the shirt
waist company. They sat in rows at
their whirring machines, the tables be-
fore them piled with ffimsy cloth, the
floor Uttered with lint, the air itself
full of flying, infiammable dust.
Cisaret Probable Cause.
1t is now definitely known that the
tire started on the eighth floor of the
building, under a cutting table In a
scrap heap and is thought to have been
started by a cigaret.
Crowds began to assemble early to-
day at the morgue to view the odies
AT least half of the corpses were un-
recognizable and only a small trinket
or a shred of clothing will help to show
the u~nfortunates We're. Some of
these bodies probably will never be
claimed.
Managers of the Triangle Waist com
pany, which occupied the burned floors.
deny today that the iron doors lead
ing to the elevators and stairs were
locked. Tho fact that there was only
one fire escape on the building VIII
Soi1iS Ii LII q SdIClul 1lVoSLlRaIlOn to-
determine what city official is to
blame
Progress has been made by public
and civic organizations toward offer
ing relief to those who have suffered
as a result of the fire. The first con-
tribution was made by Mayor Gaynor,
VINO headed the list with 500. Indus
trial organizations, theaters and civic
bodies have also set in motion plas as
for experimenting the funds.
Danger a Common One.
Fire Chief Croker said today:
II 90 not hesitate to say that =, mora.
appalling loss of life in office build
lngs \ big stores is likely to come
upon New York at any raoIrlss.t d be
cause of the lack of s~afeguards.~S
In a statement to the press issued
yesterday, borough President McAneny
said that 500 firemen, recently deta lied
by Fire Commission Waldo for he
purpose, reported $500 buildings lack
ing IRE escapes. The build
ing department has already inyesti--
gated 700 of these $500 cases and re-