Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-27

Jan. 10, Neutrality-suspicious. (Pa) 0
Nov. %, 191O-Factory, Newark, n.
NEW YORK, March 27.-One Of the
first girls to get out of the Triangle fac
tory and reach the street alive was Anna
Dugherty. She was among those who
escaped by way of the University build
ing. Immediately upon reaching the
street she ran like a wild thing for the
Astor place station Of the subway.
Bareheaded and coatless, with her
skirts still smoldering in places where
they had been set afire as she made her
way through the flames in the factory.
she struggled weakly with policeman
who stopped her to learn her name and
her home. -
GIVE Forgotten Everything"
I'm Anna Dugherty," she sobbed. 'but
/ don't know where 1 live. I've forgotten
everything, I think. We were at work
on the tenth floor when a gust of smoke
came from the hall. Then We heard a
cry, and somebody told us to follow Solly.
Hes only a little fellow. but he
seemed to know where to go. and pretty
climbed down a ladder to another build
ing and were climbing up another ladder
when the college boys came.
II don't know how it all came about.
and I don't know how many girls In
our room weren't able to get out. But
1 do know that while We were on that
second roof waiting to climb up the
ladders that there were a lot OF the
girls too scared to wait They jumped
when they saw the airshaft in the
rear OF the building.
Helped Hold Fire Nets.
Harry and Solomon Cansor of No. So
Christopher street and Joseph Sugar
man Of IA West 4th street were wit
nesses Of all that went on outside the
building. They were on their way
from their work at No. 703 Broadway
when the first rush of girls came from
the factory. When the first fire nets
were spread these three men took their
places around them and stayed at
work until the very horror of 1T all
drove them sickened away.
We were at the very door of the
building" Harry Cansor said, when
girls began coming out. We did what
we could to help them until the police
arrived with their nets, and then we
took hold Of them. / was able to stay
at work while we caught twelve on
the Washington place side. Then 1
had to quit. If hadn't think should
have died myself.
Some Girls Jumped Too Far.
Bodies rained down all around u.s.
They were coming before the nets
were spread, and when the girls at the
windows caught their first sight of
them they jumped faster than ever.
Some of them did not jump far enough
and fell between the nets and the
building Some of them jumped too
g. Ill
street. Those that jumped straight for
the nets or that we were able to catch
by moving our nets escaped. Most Of
those we were able to save seemed to
come from the ninth floor"
Students Save Fifty Girls.
Frank n. Sommer. a member of the
public utilities commission of New Jersey,
also a professor at the New York Uni
the students in his class had rescued
about fifty girls from the fire. Speaking
OF the work of rescue he said:
81 was lecturing to a class of about
fifty boys, when suddenly We heard the
whistles and gongs Of fire engines. threw
open the door of the lecture room and
then the door of the law school faculty
room, which opens on an areaway sepa-
rating our building from the one in which
the blaze started.
Some of the boys followed me, and we
saw that the ten-story building across the
areaway was on fire The open space be-
tween US and that building was filled with
ascending smoke. There were ear-piercing
shrieks. and girls appeared at the win
dows Of the shirt factory.
I'VE hurried to the roof of our build
Ing, where two ladders had been left by
painters. and the boys showed the ladders
across the areaway to windows on 1he Op-
pOsite side. The lads worked like beavers
ADDarentiv a To ho
possibility that their own building might
catch fire from the flames that were
leaping out into the open space.
How II was done / don't know, but in
a surprisingly short time about fifty girls
were brought across to safety. The boys
paid no attention to the thick smoke and
risked life and limb to steady the terror
stricken girls on the ladders.
Girl Saves Friends Life.
Annie Springcock of 5O1 Pennsylvania
avenue. East New York told yesterday
at her home thrilling story of her
escape. She was employed on the eighth
noor, and as soon as the alarm was given
ran to the dressing room and snatched
up her street clothes. When she got
to the elevator shaft she remembered
that she had left on the table of the
weeks wages. IS. She ran for il. but
could not find it.
As she reached the elevator shaft again
the car was about to make its last trip
She just managed to squeeze aboard. the
last OF those that could find room As
the door was being damned to a friend
called wildly to her not to desert her
She took the girl in her arms and by
main force raised her above the heads
OF the others in the car. There she held
her till the car reached the ground floor
in safety.
Heroic Elevator Men.
Two elevator operators, their clothing
burning and their faces and hands
scorched by flames, staggered out of the
building twenty minutes after the fire
started The conduct OF each was last
night acclaimed as heroic and the police
reports gave them credit for rescuing
more than a hundred young women from
certain death They were Joseph Zito.
twenty-thres years old, and Joseph Gas
parry, twenty-five both foreign born
Tito and Gaspary were standing In their
respective elevator cars, resting AT the
ground floor Of the building, when at a
few minutes after half-past 4 O'Clock
both heard shouts Of Fire. and q show
er Of spiintered glass rained down upon
them from the shaft doors leading from
the upper three stories Of the building
THE buildings on fire." shouted one of
them, and q few seconds later they were
ot the eighth floor. where a screaming
and struggling crowd Of young women
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