The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-23

)f the Fifty Injured a
Number will Die; Fire
men Do Heroic Work
and Save Adjoining
Buildings; Property
Loss Estimated at
.$231,OOO; T w e mt "
Nine Bodies Taken
From Ruins.
International News Service.

cay International News Service
Is 'BINGHAMToN, n. Y, July o.
"a iftytwo persons, most of them wom-
ne 81 and girls, and all employed in the
ns nme. tinderbox factory of the Bing.
Il Ftmton Clothing company, died in fire
y "a hich swept that building this after
J as,ion. Fifty more persons were injured.
s q kozcn of them fatally.
Be Tho girls, who had become annoyed
z 4 too frequent fire drills, thought the
~ iarm which sounded al 2:30 o'clock
is afternoon was only another drill
mid refused to heed it. The flames had
/DSt off every avenue of escape to most
the women employees before they
: hlized that their lives were actually
n b danger.
-. SO far only two Of the dead have
" en- identified. They are:
e0DA MARY WHITE, "a years old; both
rs broken and internally injured;
'Ses h at hospital.
Il IELLEN FULMER, % years old; IA
wsH1y burned; died in hospital.
- nany Bodies Recovered.
t ,.Fwenty-nine bodies have been taken
~ - Ifm the ruins, and according to the
7susgst careful estimates that can be made
e P55this hour, there are twenty-one bodies
lssps the ruins.
tSs While many girls lost their lives be-
usri 4se they did not heed the alarm of
10 tpt 1T seems certain that the narrow
c!Jrway and inadequate fire escapes
20" aid not have furnished sufficient
re ofries of egress in such fire had the
,vids employees responded promptly to
,sisd call.
sss &ess than one-fifth of the persons in
bsskF building escaped death or serious
be sFry' The two hospitals of this city
dsils many homes and private institu-
81 1s house the fifty injured
~Tound the scene of the catastrophe
n Qsands are tonight watching the
a. men and police as they are work.
G ptheir way through the hot ruins,
Reo by three great searchlights,
sr cSnng the bodies of the dead. Many
j.. pfHfne great throng are relatives and
> nds of the missing and only the
1'n'D ely-drawn police lines restrain them
rushing into the ruins.
nsssps ssp sgrching the Ruins.
r olGz
ssmpst dozen streams Of water are pouring
dlngsStsrf1I Y MI the fiery pit that few hours ago
wIl The cellar Of the factory. Firemep
nsn~r Yentrate the streams on one spot nm
= : oorsyf is cooled sufficiently for men to
g pSs5 Forward and prosecute the search
ssItboa Fne dead. They cannot work long
hey ,s1e stream and intense heat, but oc.
Eek ermally body is found in the
SSpsfds.
9 son slwas at 2;3o O'Clock this afternoon
ID ~Nfred Bennett, an employee of the
oas ss no. Hy, saw a wisp Of smoke ascend.
! bsdN pne stairway from the first floor
!. Fomptly sounded the alarm,
r. fle private fire alarm system was
,! rRed two months ago, at the sug.
Az" OF State Fire Marshal Ahearu.
- uowing his instructions, there had
bosrra frequent fire drills-too freonont
10 10 ri employees thought.
81. ans girls. many of whom work bv
rnatts peee, when absent from duty
o. the loss of none too large o,rn'
!. ~ Enen the FIRE test was sounded on
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