Albuquerque morning journal., 1913-07-23


Binghamton, ~ W July Fifty
persons were killed, according TO late
estimates, and many injured. a dozen
Of them MORALLY ln "a fire which
swept the four-stOry factory building
ot the Binghamton Clothing com
pauy this afternoon. The victims
chiefly We're women and girls.
Early tonight twenty-five bodies
had been recovered. in the city hos
pital and in private Institutions are
thirty injured Some two score per-
sons are known 90 have escaped as
by miracle from the building,
which burst into flame like a tinder
box and became q roaring furnace al-
most Immediately after the first alarm
was sounded About t25 persons
were In the factory when the fire
broke out. Those unaccounted for,
or most of them, are believed still 20
be in the red hot ruins of the struc-
turc.
Around tile scene uf The d.sdster,
the greatest the city has ever known,
thousands watched the workers in the
glare Of three big scarchllgnts, many
in the great thrung being restrained
only 10y the closely drawn police from
rushing into The ruins to seek the
bodies Of relatives or friends
Water in many streams is being
poured into the fiery pit that a few
hours ago was the cellar Of the burned
esta lishment As the ruins were
cooled slightly from time to time in a
spot upon which the streams were CEN
'=zzesslssantts3. WeRs forward to dig ass
long as human endurance would al
low them 10 work Occasionally a
body was found and taken quickly
away
This work will 80 on all night and
perhaps all day tomorrow. before the
glowing mass gives up its last dead.
1t will take at least two days, the au-
thOritics believe, before the cellar can
he cleared
The big outstanding fact of the ca
tastrophe is it's suddenness. IN tins,
it bears a strong resemblance 90 the
Triunglc Waist company disaster in
New York, where one nunWed ana
forty-sevcn lives We're lost when the
intlammable material and the
waists lttcring the floors blazed up
with incredible rapidity and set the
imprisoned workers jumping from the
windows to their death The parallel
here fails only In the height and con-
lengtb of fbe siist ~ de,d and in-
iured. Another resembhnce ia he
New yort dIeaetor ~ that fba rira is
believed ia barn baen started hy tho
throwing Of j riearetto or match.
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