The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-24
Still Twenty-Five Mill
Workers to Be Ac-
counted For.
THERE is RUMOR
OF INCENDIARISM
Belief Grows That Some One Set
Fire to Plant in Which Perhaps
Seventy-Five Persons Lost
Their Lives-Entire
Town Is in <
Anguish.
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Especial to The Times Dispatch
bihPhnnton, y. y. July :3.-From
cruel black pit on the banks Of tho
'hcn"nEo River to-day fourteen
ehnrrcd bodies of the victims or thc
binE hnmton clothing factory were
lifted.
INTO the horror of dcntf which ba,
no"ed this town In misery, hns entered
the horrible possibility that the fire
""S Oh incrndinry origin. BInghumton
shuddcred when the rumor sprc,d TO-
dny nnd the authorities and tho vc,.r
"oie owner OF the mill, Reed T. frrcc-
tnhh. declared hnlf-hcnrtcdIy TINT such
thing Is beyond belief.
Al least nifty OF the mill workers
are dead the final count may he more
There are Yet twenty five to be ac.
counted for and the total may no
swelled to seventy-fve
ihfee separate Investigations are
uh"er way Governor Sulzcr has or
'ro,s 100 william Rogers. acting State
commissioner OF Labor. and e. A.
Bates supervising inspector for tho
state Labor Department. to come brra
! from Albany and make an independ.nt
prone. Deputy State Fire Marshal
Roesch is on his way from Albany 70
make an Inspection and the local au
thorities. under the direction of Coro
ncrs Stillson and Seymour. are strup
Cling as best they may to find out
why this blight SHOULD have fallen on
BinShamton.
Official Hands STAYED
The terrible pity of the whole horror
the anguish that has entered every street
OF the town and the marvellous scenes
OF humble grief, have stayed th,. hands
OF "Uncial BinGhamton, and when the
ruinor OF inccndiariSm spread forth to-
daF all the lower section of Eroome
county iiocked to the banks OF the
Chenanro and An unpleasant snarl of
r"se lhihE'"d vita the SIirt murnurs.
The hand Of death rested upon the
factory but eighteen minutes. In
eighteen minutes fire had crumbled a
supposedly sturdy building into q
mass OF black dust and twisted iron,
and somewhere between nifty and sew
enty- five lives We're snufed out That
hre should dart suddenly from beneath
stairway and leap from jost 10 joist
along the ceiling and in less than five
minutes have the entire building in
its hlightinG grasp, IS more than the
police and tremen can fathom. There
is but one Observation-Disclosures
the thing is 50 horrible that the au-
th0r.t!es refuse To accept the rumor.
1T can't he so, 1t can't be so.'' cried
Mayor Irving
But YET and like all the rest of
Binghamton. he threw up his hands
III despair
The known Dead
slowly the lists Of the dead are be-
ing complied NJ Dihbles morguc, there
are now twenty charred bodies which
DEFY Identification. Thus far tho
idrntilcd dead are as follows
Cassie VI. Fulmer.
Mary L: sullivan.
Mrs Ida Prentice
Mrs Alvin White.
Mrs. Mary Prior
Nellie Connor.
The Missing.
Rurdick. Miss Martha
Button, Miss Ruth.
Chcrnef, Miss Eda.
Creegan, Miss Mary
Grove. Catherine
Clark, Mrs. Melvin.
Dmmock. Sidney.
Diamond. Miss Margaret
Dorna. Mrs. Sarah.
Ere man. Mrs Hattie.
Gleason. Mss Nellie.
Gleason. Mrs. Anna.
Golden. Miss Ida
Hartman, Miss Louise.
Ilartwell, Miss Louise.
liotalins. Miss Emma.
katz Miss Anna.
Kennedy Miss Lena
Kennedy Miss Edith. of Port Dick.
inson.
Lima, Julia.
Martcn. Mary.
O'pcu Edith.
Polesja Virginia.
Polcsia Mary
Ray Bessie
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