The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-28

wrist and jumped. Her body went
whirling downward, through the wo-
ven wire glass of canopy, to the
tagging below. Her sisters who fol-
lowed, famed through the air like
rockets. Their path could be fol-
lowed, but their screams hardly
heard.
It was So feet from eighth floor
to the ground, about 95 feet from
the ninth floor, lis feet from the
cornice of the roof. The upward rush
of the draught and the crackle of
the flames drowned their cries.
Six girls fought their way to a
window on the ninth floor, over the
bodies Of fallen fellow workers, anu
crawled out in single file on an eight
inch stone ledge running the length
of the building. More than a hun
dred- feet above the sidewalk they
crawled along their perilous path
way to an electric-feed wire spanning
washington place. The leaders
paused for their companions to catch
up and the six grabbed the wire sim
ultaneously. 1t snapped and they
crashed down to death. ,''''''
o. a f17-year-old girl hug:g for three
minutes by her finger tips to the sill
of tenth floor window. a tongue
of flame licked at her fingers and she
dropped into a life-net, held by fire.
men. Two women fell into the net at
almost the same moment The strings
parted and the three We're added 10
the death list. One girl threw her
pocketbook, then her hat, then her
furs from the tenth story window. A
moment later her body came hurlin~
after them, to death.
At ninth floor window a man ana
woman appeared. The man en-
braced the woman and kissed her.
Then he hurled her to the street and
jumped. Both were killed. Five girls
smashed a pane of glass, dropped in
a struggling tangle and were crushed
into a shapeless mass. A girl on the
eighth floor leaped for fireman s
ladder. which reached oaly to sixth
floor. She missed, struck the edge of
life-net and was picked up with her
back broken.
From one window girl of about
13 years, woman, man and two
women, with their arms about one
another, threw themselves to the
ground in rapid succession. The
little girl was whirled to the New
York Hospital. She screamed as the
driver and a policeman lifted he1
into the hallway. A surgeon came
out, gave one look at her face and
touched her wrist.
"She is dead" he said.
One girl jumped into horse
blanket, held by firemen and police
men. The blanket ripped like cheese
cloth and her body was uangled al
most beyond recognition. Another
dropped into a tarpaulin, held by
three men. Her weight tore it from
their grasp and she struck the street,
breaking almost every bone in her
body. Almost at the same time a
man somersaulted down upon the
shoulder of a policeman holding the
tarpaulin He glanced off, struck
the sidewalk and was picked up dead.
Effort to Check Stampede.
Within the building a man on the
eighth floor stationed himself at the
door of one Of the elevators and with
a club kept back the girls, who had
stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty
were admitted to the car at a time.
They were rushed down as fast as
possible.
The calls for ambulances were fol-
lowed by successive appeals for po-
lice, until 100 patrolmen arrived to
cope with a crowd numbering tens of
thousands. A hundred mounted po-
licemen had to charge the crowd re-
peatedly to keep it back.
Led by Fire Chief Croker, squad
of firemen gained access to the build
Ing at Z o'clock Two searchlights
from buildings opposite lighted the
way of the firemen. Fifty roasted
bodies were found on the ninth floor.
They lay in every possible position,
some so mangled that recognition
was impossible.
Women with their hair burned
away, with here and there limb
burned entirely off and the charred
stump visible, were lifted tenderly
from the debris, wrapped In oilclott
and lowered by pulleys to the street
Across the street there rested on
the sidewalk a hundred pine collins
into which were placed the bodies
AS fast as this was done, the cottlns
were carried away, in any kind of a
vehicle that could be pressed into
service, to the morgue, at Bellevue
Hospital, and the Charities Morgue
opened for the first time since the
General Slocum disaster.
One hundred and six bodies had
been taken from the building and
twenty injured had been conveyed to
St. Vincent's Hospital at 10 o'clock
Of these three died soon after admit.
tance. Others were not expected tc
live through the night. Three of five
women taken to Bellevue Hospila
died soon after admitted there.
MANY Rescued by Students