The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-03-30
PROSECUTION WILL
! FOLLOW K|LL|NGOF
142 IN HOLOCAUST
Criminal Carelessness
Made Possible Roast
ing of Victims.
In TWENTY MINUTES
Most of Workers in Shirtwaist
Factory Are Burned or
Crushed to Death.
IN TWENTY MINUTES

Crushed to Death.
New York City.-Bulletin.-I
trict Attorney Whitman, after his in
vestigation today, hold John Will
Jams, state superintendent of labor
responsible for Saturdays fire dis
aster. because one Of his deputies in
spected the building and approved it
New York City.-Of the 142 bod
les now in the morgues from the Tri.
angle Shirtwaist factory. fire satur.
day evening, all but fifty were iden.
tilted this morning.
The labor union of New York CITY
Will hold a monster funeral over the
victims, as protest against the
criminal negligence which made this
horror possible. Criminal prosecu-
tion against those responsible for the
conditions that made the disaster
possible, is certain to follow.
Investigation following Saturdays
fire shows that of $50 similar build
ings in New York City, not one third
have fire escapes and standpipes and
other required safety appliances, and
a vigorous campaign against the own
ers of all such buildings is certain to
be made.
(, The workingmen's circle of the
Jewish Sick and Death Benefit So
ciety has secured big lot in which
many Of the victims will be buried by
charity.
or the fourteen sufferers. still alive
IN hospitals today, it is expected that
five will die.
1t was the lower side Of the Man,
haitian, between Second avenue and
Avenue G, almost exactly the local.
ity that furnished the majority of
victims in the destruction of the
steamer Slocum four years ago, that
suffered most from Saturdays fire.
All Jewish families quickly
brought home the bodies of victims
from their number and as quickly
taken to cemeteries and inferred, in
compliance with their faith.
Other Cities Stirred.
Officials who examined the build
ing where the shirt waist workers
were destroyed Saturday evening.
say this afternoon that it is won
der that any of the $50 on the three
floors escaped with their lives.
The district attorney and coroner.
with architects, are making draw
fngs Of the interior to use in prose-
cutfons. These drawing shows that
the doors did not swing outward, and
that there was no available fire es.
capes as provided by law. The build
ing department of the city is making
a similar Investigation to fix the
blame.
At one o'clock this afternoon all
the bodies were identified but 80. Re
ports from many cities, including
Chicago, Washington, Pittsburg, De-
troit, and Milwaukee, show that the
authorities there are taking steps to
prevent a similar horror.
DETAILED REPORT OF HORROR
THAT WIPED OUT 155 LIVES
New York City.-One hundred and
fifty souls, nine-tenths of them girls
from the East side, were crushed to
death on the pavement, smothered
by smoke or shrivelled to crisp late
Saturday afternoon in the worst fire
New York has known since the Cen
eral Slocum was burned to- the wa
ter's edge OF North Brothers Island
in 1904.
Nearly all, If not all, of the VIC
tins were employed by the Triangle
Shirt Waist company on the eighth.
ninth and tenth floors of ten story
building at % Washington place on
the western fringe of the down town
wholesale clothing, fur and milli-
merry district.
The partners of the firm, Isaac
Harris and Max Blanck. escaped un-
scathed from the Office on the tenth
floor, carrying with them over the
adjoining roof in blankets their two
young daughters as there was no
outside fire escape on the building.
How They Died.
How the fire started perhaps will
never be known. A corner on the
eighth floor was its point Of origin
and three upper floors only were
swept. One the ninth floor flfty
bodies were found. sixty-three or
more persons were crushed to death
fby jumping and more than thirty
clogged the elevator shafts. The
loss to property will not exceed