Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-03-28
HOLOCAUST N
new YORK CITY
COSTS l5| LIVES
PANIC OCCURS WHEN FLAMES
DRGAk oUT-NETs AND
BLANkETe FAIL TO
BREAK FALLS.
BODIES ARE LITERALLY
RAINED THROUGH THE AIR
Three Upper Floors o. ren.story
Building Are eurned.-casuaIties
Occur Within 20 Mlnutes-
Fire Out In One :.
Hour.


Fire Out In One
Hour.
|
New York, March 27.-One hundred
ana llfty-one persons-nine.tenths Of
thsm, girls from the East side-were
crushed to death on the pavements
smothored In smoke. or shriveled crisp
is.a factory fire and twelve are dyine
IN hospitals in the worst disaster New
York has known since the steamship
Gen. slocum was burned to the waters
edge on North Brothers island in 1904.
Nearly all, if,not all. of the victims
we're employed by the Triangle Waist
company on the eighth, ninth and tenth
Aoors of 10-story loft building, on the
western fringe of the downtown whole
ssle clothing. fur and millinery dis.
kYiet.
The partners Of tho firm. Isaac Har.
ne and Max Blanck, escaped un-
serstched from the ONCE on the tenth
door, carrying with them over an ad-
4oinilg roof Blanck's two young daugh.
tsrs ana . govsrness. There was no
near outside flrs escape on the build
ing.
Origin Unknown.
How the fire started will perhaps
never be known. A corner on the
oi1hth floor was its point Of origin and
the three upper floors only were swept.
On the ninth door 80 bodies were
found. So or more persons were crush.
"a 10 death by Jumping and more than
30 clogged the elevator shafts. The
loes to property will not exceed $780,.
90.
Pedestrians going home through
Washington place to Washington
square At 10 minutes to s were scat.
eedtd BY the whixz Of something rush.
ln1:through the. air before them; there
w. horrible plop on the pavement
~ body Aattenel on the fags.
F6ur alarms were rung within Is
0tn1tes. Before the engines could re.
sload, before the nets could be
stSsaehed or the ladders raised. i've
gisls had fallen from the eighth and
aiath floorsss 90 heavily that they broke
through the glass and iron roofs Of
HE sub-cellars and crashed through
lhi very streets into the vaults be-
NV. IS
Holocaust Soon Over.
N IN hour the IRE was out; in half
a hour II had done it's worst; prob.
sbly the death list was full in 20 min
ateo.
I The building stands On corner. with
exposure on two sides. but the only
ayo was interior, opening on
Nit and air shaft. In all there were
ssvoa sxits-the single IRE escape, two
freight elevators At the rear, two pas
Ssagsr elevators in front and two
stsiTways. All Of them proved al.
1ost useless and practically all who
steaped either climbed to the roof and
oegambled thence TO the roof Of the
esilding occupied by the American
Book company adjoining. or ned in the
AEst rush for safety before the crush
snd the smoke grew too thick.
The first rush Of flame was almost
IN explosion. Operators died In their
chairs, their lungs scared BY inhaling
Games. Others were crowded into the
slsvator Shafts e sitter the cars had
made their last trip. Still others we're
IudAed on IN the Inadequate interior
11o escape.
ahowa, ~ nodlea.
In such = horrible stream did the
1s01as Sss NV from the windows that
AAe4aa j. stretched by the first
J eoMiDany ~ afvivs. were soon gorged
beyond capacity.
Prom Deadly Heights.
n was sb feet from the eighth floor
% the ground; about s. feet from the
pinth floor. 115 feet from the cornice
% the roof. and the upwf-d rush Of
The draugtt and the crackle Of the
Games drowned their cries.
Six girls fought their way to a
window on the ninth floor over tho
bodies Of fallen fellow workers and
erawled out in single file to an eight
inch stone ledge, running the length
d the building. More than hundred
fest above the sidewalk they crept
along their perilcus pathway to a
swinging electric feed wire spanning
washington Place. The leaders paused
for their companions to catch up AT
the. end Of the ledge and the six
grabbed the wire simultaneously. II
snapped like rotten whip cord and
they crashed to death.
Their Last Embrace.
At q ninth floor window q man and
. woman appeared. The man en-.
bracsd the woman and kissed her
Then he hurled her to the street and
Jumped Both were killed. Five girl,
smashed pane Of glass. dropped in q
struggling tangle and were crushed
into shapeless mass.
One girl jumped into a horse blan
NJ held by nremen and policemen
The b.anke: ripped like cheaee ELL
and her body was managed almost lie
yond recognition. Another drop,
into . tsrpauiiR held by. three mer
Her weight tore it from their gr's
and she struck the street. h,eakir'
almoat every bone IL, her body Al
most AZ the same time man somsl
saulted down upon the shoulder Of
policeman holding the tsrpalir. "
glanced OIL, struck the Sidewalk an
vas picked UP dead.
Joseph Zito ard Joseph Css?ar wer
"a. charge Of the two passenger elevs
ta,. ~ ~. waehjr gtcn plsce side o