The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-26
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
New York. March 25-One hundredsand forty-eight
persons ninetenths OF whom were crushed to
death the pavements smohered by smoke or shrveed
crisp in facory-hre this afternoon in the worst dis
New York has known since the steamer Socum was
burned to the waters edge In 1904 One hundred and
ory-one bodies had been removed from the ruins mid
night Seven of the fortyeght injured died in hospitals
and this it is believed completes the list of the dead most
of whom unidentified Griefcrazed relatives beseged
the morgue the bodies were laid out.
Nearly all the victims employed by the Triangle
Shirt Waist Company, the eighth ninth and tenth
floors of the building No % Washington place. the
western fringe of the downtown wholesale district The
apartners of the firm Isaac Harris and Max Blanck
capped unscathed from their Office the tenth floor
ing with them, an adjoining roof, two children and
their governess.
There were no outside FIRE escapes the building,
and how the fire started will perhaps be known
On the ninth floor fifty bodies found sixtythree
or more were killed by Jumping and over thirty were
cogged in elevator shafts The property loss will not
ceed one hundred thousand dollars.
Pedestrians the street were at first startled when
BODY hurled through the air and hattened the sidewalk
Looking up they the windows of the upper floors black
with girls, erowding to the sis ---,.s.4:-.
and they began to fall to the sidewalk In terrible rain OF
flesh and blood.
In an hour the fire was out but in half hour it had
done IFS worst The building stands tonight with shell
intact but barely Scared Seven hundred people were
employed by the company, and two-thirds were women
The first rush of the flames almost equaled an ex-
posion the floors being thickly covered with lint and
scraps Many died in chairs while scores rushed to the
windows and did they tall that the hre nets were
soon gorged beyond their capacity
The fire bursted out FIVE minutes before quitting
time and caught nearly the full force present Scores
were in the waiting line to be paid.
MANY PATHETIC SCENES.
At a ninth floor window and ap-
peared The man embraced the woman kissed her and
then hurled her the street and jumped. Both were
killed Five girls dropped in struggling tange and were
crushed into shapeless mass
On the eighth floor from one window girl OF thir-
teer a woman and two women with their arms
about one another threw themselves the ground in
rapid succession. One girl jumped into horse blanket
held bv fremen and policemen The blanket ripped like
cheese cloth and the body was manged almost beyond
recognition Another dropped into tarpauin held by
three men, The weight from their grasp breaking
almost every bone in her body Almost at the time
man soersauted down upon the shoulder of policeman,
holding the tarpauin glanced off, and struck the side
walk He picked up dead
The call for ambuances followed by successive
appeals for police until FIVE hundred patrolmen arrived
cope with the crowd numbering ten thousand mixture
of obidy curious and hacrazed relatives and friends
of victims One hundred mounted policemen charged
the crowd repeatedly to keep it back.
AWFUL SIGHT WITNESSED
Led by Fire Chief Croker, squad of remen storned
the stairways and gained access to the building at
o'clock Fifty roasted bodies found the ninth
Hoo Women with their hair burned away with here and
there limb burned entirely off, with charred stump
visible, lifted tendery from the debris wrapped in
ocoth and lowered by pueys to the street Across the
street rested the sidewalk hundred pine cons into
which placed the bodies and carried away in any
kind of vehicle that could be pressed into service the
intrigue at Bellevue hospital The Charities Pier morgue
wds opened Tor the the Socum horror.
City officials tonight announced that the usual rigid
investigation will be instituted Fire Chief Croker
said. This calamity is just what have been predicting
There were no outside fire escapes the building This
large loss of life is due to this neglect"