The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-03-30

iakaireass WersN ieeted. The fact tia
stAste wss oaly oasSArs eAtAps on Ii
buillinE VIII como IN for . careful
linvestigation 20 determine what cit,
caiciai . 10 blame.
Promptness has been snown BY tn
public and service organizations to
ward Offering relief to those VII,
have suffered . result css :.hs lire
The drst contribution was made b,
Mayor Gaynor who headed the liz
with 500. Industrial organizations
theatrical and civic bodies have ais.
ret In motion plans for supplement-
ing the fund.
Fire Chief Croker said today:
81 do not hesitate to say . more
appalling loss OF life in once build.
ffngs and big stores IL likely to come
upon New York at any moment be.
cause OF the lack Of safeguards"
1ArHrsLS5E na@EEfEW
Fire Marshall Beers.
Fire Marshal Beers summoned the
proprietors OF the Triangle Waist
company and several employees Of the
hrm Will testify at a public ~investiga-
tion. They have been busy collect
ing all avallable information regard
Ing the conditions in the factory when
the ire started and will inquire par
ticularly into the truth OF that state
ment that doors leading to IRE es-
capes were locked"
so far as I have been able 0 dis
cover" he said, there has never been
1ire drill In the factory. In my
opinion It would take 700 girls three
hours to reach the street by the fire
escape used In the building.
Il can say the shutters obstruct-
ed this fire escape. There are thou
sands Of other building in this city
that aAe In the same condition as the
scene Of Saturdays disaster. Build-
are passed as loft buildings and
then converted into factories. Nine
Of the employees cannot read
English, and in the examination made
I could not ind a sign In the Yiddish
or Italian tongues, which most Of the
employees spoke. pointing out the fire
escape"
Nearly al the dead were under 80
years Of age. the large majority be-
Il and 20. Many we're only
16. and ! few but Is years Of age.
100000 View Charred Bodies.
Two hundred thousand persons.
the police estimate. filed in a serpen-
tine line to the pier from the opening
Of the improvised morgue. At
Times the line extended beyond Twen-
ty-third street, four blocks away. and
tens Of thousands. impelled by NOR
bid curiosity. were turned away by
the police.
Nearly q hundred collins lay in a
long row upon the pier awaiting re-
moval or Identification Of the charred.
they contained. Forty human
distorted they cannot be recognize
distored that they cannot be recognize
ed. : covered by white canvas in
plain pine cofins apart from the less
horribly mangled. Unless they are
by the little trinkets and
found on their blackened
limbs they will I'LL q single grave Of
unknown dead.
q signet ring. found clinging to a
shred Of flesh on a little girls finger,
made Identification possible where
Ill other means would have failed. A
man had stood in line six hours wan
dered aimlessly among the bodies
seeking his missing daughters until.
with a groan he identified a heap Of
charred clothing az their garments.
He collapsed and sought to kill him
self. but the police prevented him,
and he continued the search for his
wife. also missing.
Finds Eiance and Collapses.
a pale girl bent over . misshapen.
mass. long and doubttngly. Then
With : nnal effort she grasped . hand
wrich protruded from beneath the
and. with . shrek, collapsed.
The blackened mass, she sobbed, had.
been her sweetheart to whom
she had become engaged the
night before tn disastr. A
ring on his mgr told his identity.
She asked II the dead man had had
: watch. They brought It to her. She
opened It and gazed at her own fea-
lures.
HAD MADE WONDERFUL