The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-28
Horror in Washington Square
Creates Great Activity Among
New York Officials.
OWNERS OF BUILDINGS
SUMMONED TO COURT
Relief Fund Headed by $4,000
Donation From Andrew Car
negie; Death List, l42.

NEW YORK. March 27.-Fixing the
blame for the loss OF 142 lives in the
Washington Square fire of Saturday
drew to a focus today the energies of
the district attorneys staff, the fire
marshal, the coroner, the state labor de
partment and Borough President Nc
Aneny Of Manhattan
Dozens Of Investigators collected
available information. Grand jurymen
turned personal probers and an addi.
tional grand jury in formal resolu-
tiou presented 10 the court of general
sessions, offered their aid to the dis
trict attorney, and declared that some
one should be prosecuted for the disas-
ter.
What the investigators found-evi
dence that doors at . exits swung In
ward; the crumpled fire escape in the
airshaft, the one fire escape blocked by
iron shutters when opened, an empty
| water tank on the roof. and the prac
tlce prevalent among cutters of light
| ing cigars a few minutes before quit
ting time-all this and what is yet tc
b. fcrreted out, will be placed speedily
before the grand jury.
Owners of Buildings in Court.
The tenement house department sum
moned owners of half dozen faulty
structures to police court as prelimi'
nary step TO a reaching investga-
tion of tenements. One man was held
for violating the law and other cases
il was announced. will be pressed to.
morrow. Fire Marshal Beeres sum
moned the proprietors of the Triangle
Waist company and several employees
to testify at Il. public investigation
largely TO inquire into the truth of re
ports that doors leading to fire escapes
were blocked.
$50 far AS can discover he said
''there has never been fire drill In
this factory. In my opinion. it would
take 700 girls three hours to reach the
street by the one fire escape. Nine
tenths of the employees cannot speak
English, yet could not find a sign in
Yiddish or Italian pointing out the
fire exits
The fire marshal said he was con
vinccd that n cigarette lighted by n
cutter and thrown into a heap of clip.
pings had started the fire.
Carnegie Heads Relief Fund.
A relief fund for the sufferers is
headed by $4,000 donation from And
rev Carnegie. The United Hebrew
charitIe7, the Austrian Hebrew Free
Burial association and other organisa-
tions came to the fore with aid.
Thirty-thrce bodies, most of them
shorn of all semblaucc of human form
lie unidentified tonight Mt the Charities
pier morgue. Twelve persons, most of
them girls in their teens, are fighting
for life in hospitals.
Half hundred funeral trains trailed
through the East Side and the Italian
district near the factory today and as
many more arc scheduled for tomorrow.
The unidentified will be buried in a
single grave, but will be held as long
as possible to give relatives and friends
an opportunity to claim them,
Final figures place the death list at
142.. OF these, 1873 bodies were taken
from the scene of the disaster and eight
died in hospitals The list will be
swelled, surgeons say, by others who,
still living, have no chance TO recover.