Norwich bulletin., 1911-03-27
A Dozen More Women and Girls at Deaths
 Door in Various Hospitals
SOMEBODY IS CRIMINALLY LIABLE
District Attorney Says He Will Fix the Responsibility Mas Meeting to be Held to Demand. Better Pro- tecton-Heartrendne Scenes When Relatives Find Their Loved Ones in Long Row of Dead at Moraue.

New York. March 2s.-What will go down in history as tte fire disaster of Washington square entered upon it's aftermath tonight with se out of near ly 150 victims identified. The of1cial death list has been lessened rather than increased. .t.<>
 .N casuaItiss Will Number 1sO.
 A revised count showed Al dead to- at deaths door in the hospitals. One hundred and fifty, all told. will prob ably cover the casualties when those whose horrible hurts and burns seem fatal shall have joined their fellow workers now in the cofins of the pau per dead. Careful enumeration stil1 makes the female victims. young and cid. approximately ten to every male.
 Mostly Jews snd Italians. V
 Broadly speaking, they were Jews and Italians, living either on the East Side or in a small Italian quarter near the scene of the fire.
 With all the dead removed from the building. the coroner began an inves- vigation of the disaster-9ne of several inquiries which will be conducted by city departments-aided by agents from the district attorneys ofice.
 Brand Jury to Have Inquest Report.
 
 pult will be placed before the grand Jury. Many grand jury men visited the scene and District Attorney Whit man announced that those responsi- hle for the loss of life would be viz rrously prosecuted.
 Agitation for Better Protection.
 On Thursday night mass meeting will be held at Cooper Union to agi- tate for more adequate protection of htrt1 .r1A l. United Hebrew Charities and the He- brew Free Burial societies announced tonight that they were ready to re- lieve any distress caused by the fire.
 subseriptieh List Opened.
 The Independent Order of B'Nai BRith has opened subscription fund throughout New York. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Q portion of Can-s eda for the sufferers. Directors of the tho building free for q beReht per formance
 List of Fseteriss Given Out.
 pr. e. M. Price, chairman of the tnvestigation committee. appointed by the cloak, suit and skirt industry of New York last September to investi- gate and remedy unsanitary and pro- tective conditions affecting members or that union, rave out statement tonight with long list os factory buildings which he says fail to comply with fire regulations.
 "Ths Expected taappsnsd.v
 What was expected has happened, says the statement. Those who know of the fHmsy fire protection in the loft buildings of New York long ago predicted such a disaster as occurred in Washington place. If, however. this building was the only one of those unprotected the situation would not bs SO terrible. But the fact is, there is hardly a large loft building in New toEk which Is better protected against s,soo BuiIdinss Without Fire Esespes. In statement which he issued to the press today. Borough President MeAnsny said that five hundred fire men. recently detailed by Fire Com nrissiorfer Waldo for the purpose. re- ported $500 buildings lacking adequate fire escapes The building department has already investigated 700 of these . $500 cases and reported that onIv fen per cent. of them were in violation of the building code. The building in which Saturdays disaster occurred had not been reached among the cases reported by the fire department.
 Urges Revision of the Code.
 Mir. AcAneny urges thorough re- vision of the code. leaving the provis, tons relative to Are escapes to a com I mission of building and fire experts to be appointed by the city. Flshsd for Victims With Boat Heoks. While a crowd of morbid thousandg was held back by the police. firemen with grappling irons and fire hooks eought victims in. the flooded cellar Of the building alr forenoon. A steam pump emptied the basement of water during the morning and the firemen Deiieyed when they rested at the din- ner hour that they would find no more dead
 Cause of Fire Net Known. Tonight however. they carried out another body. making three recovered during the day. The overcount last q charred portion of body as The work of the day shed no light upon the cause of the blaze. This Win probably never be known. Bury uniodshtifsd in Common Grave The Charities pier with the dead and the streets surrounding the burn ed buiioins were throneed by thou Ienf and many munching peanuts. But the unidentified dead who probablv will lie in comfnon grave. aftrkcted | the greatest number of grief racked l persons ft ir planned by the Waist Makers, union to haze every shirtwaist maker In the city stop work for few min utes when those charred forms are buried
 Union EmpIoys Council. Omcers of the Ladies Waist an6r Dress Makers union said tonight that their lawyers will begin an investiga- fion immediately with a view of flx- in< responsibility for the ~disaster. 2oq'eoo visitsd Tsmpsrsry Mersus. Two hundred <1housnnd persons. the police estimate. <i1led in a serpentine line to, the pisrvfFem the opening of eha tn5rowteea sf Srgue Ut one o'clock o116 >rorning untl{ late tonight. Othsr l5uuz1n4s- imD~I<4 by morbid curio8- 1lU~ <ere turned 4Kay by the police. nrsy foo ce19ns-~in a- Row.. " r1y a hundred ,coGlnq lay in. lsn poW upon the Ufef. .aWat0hG re- m1111 or identi1cG1pn of tho charred po1le4 (hey confAfled- Forty humen 1Drm4 e0 bugn&1. &I4cksned end 1is- be f11n11net- Icy cov1god by white ' E 2 < z