The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-03-26
141 DEAD IN
FACTORY FIRE
ShIrtwalst Workers Trapped
Many Stories Up IN the
Triangle Co.'s Shop.
RAIN OF BODIES TO STREET

Scores Of tho Women and Girls
Fight for Places to Jump
to Their Deaths.
Fire Starts on Eighth Floor. with various
theories to Account for N-Trtangle
Concern HAD Threc Upper Floers Of
Ten Story Asoh Building
sweeps Over Place at Once-Eie,ator
Run Cntil Heat Becomes Unhearabie
Machine Operators Drsp From
windows and Then Jump Down Etc
,ator well-Bodies Break Nets Of the
Firemen-New Yerk Un;versity Law
students Help In Rescue-Bsties
Deep on Sidewalk when Firemen Ar.
ri,e-sheets Of water Dreuch Them
as Firemen Fight Fire-Search Dis.
closes Many Bodies lnside-Tcmpe-
rary Morguc Opened by the Police.
Long rows OF cofiined dead on the
shedded Morgue pier-last 20 used at the
time Of the Slocum disaster-marked the
work Of fire in the Asch loft building At
Greene street and Warrington plaoe late
Yesterday afternoon.
According to the police count at mid
night last night lli persons, about q dozer
Of whom were men. lost their lives. One
hundred and thirty-tbree bodies were
taken from the ruins and eight Per
sons died in the hospitals.' Bat
TALON Chief Worth had just completed I
search Of the cellar at this time. and h,
said that - far - he could tell there.wers
no moro bodies thsre. nor was there any
eft in the building. Chief Worth said
however. that there was sill . great dsa
Of water In the cellar and that It VA
quite possible that It hid more bodies
None OF the floors had fallen and the roo
had not fallen. Tho stsirways too wer'
intact.
The dead were Ghirtwaist makers. mostly
women and girls. employed by the Tri
angle Shirt Waist Company, OF which
Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were pro-
prietors. The ten story building. ownes
Ly Joseph Asch OF South Norwalk. Conn.
lad II 500 machines on three OF the hoorA
aud one fire escape. which ran down int,
ine courtyard. .-........
Eye witnesses OF the fire said last nigh
that the first man who had run to th'
narm box at Washington place and Wash
ington Square East had merely iturne,
the handle OF the box and had not opene'
i and pulled the hook which sends tn
a'arm. This accounts. they cay. for tn
apparent slowness Of the fire apparatu
.n answering the alarm.
When the fire came. just before s o'clock
men and women leaped into the street T.
dozens and died there. There we're fifty
three oorpses on the Greene street side
walk when the reporters got there
There were more dead at the bottom
oi the elevator shaft and many more
some Of them burned to mere relics. o
the upper hoors.
The women and girl machine OPERATOR
VINO were found dead on the street ha
jumped from the eighth. ninth an
tenth or top floor. They jumped
groups OF twos and threes into life net
and their bodies spun downward froI
the high windows OF the building 80 clot
together that the few life nets stretche
below soon we're broken and the fireme
and passcrsby who helped hold the ne
were crushed to the pavement by II
ram Of falling bodies.
Within a few minutes after the firf
cry Of fire had been yelled on the eight
foor Of the building ffty-three bodi'
we're lying half dressed on the payemen
waists and skirts in tatters showing tn
'o"y had been torn in the panic With
l"'' b'loTc tuc Buio Bot W 'hS WI
COWS 10 jump to de ath
Rodles Lsy In the Water
Tie bodies lay there with the spill
tie water which the firemen soon wei
touring into the building soaking ther
here was no time to clear away the des
m N" street Inside the building. Il
iuemen believed, still were dozens upo
'"7"ns Of girls and men. and the frem'
N'-'"d no time upon those whom at
glance they knew to be dead. II W
nor" ihan an hour and half before d
'iem"n could enter the floor where d
IRE started. the eighth, and they can
"cN hen with the word that q quiz
g.H.u" showed, according to Chief Croks
about ity dead bodies on that 40
acne. In the elevator shaft also was
.-' 81 bodies estimated conser ervatively
" ".h.'-hve, gTls who bad jumped dov
'' '."' atur shaft after the elevator h
i'.. '- last trip
0' " n" girls in jumping n'nash
''" Nd"wGlk vault light On I