New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-23

Miss McDonough was among those
who swooned, and she believes she was
carried out by one of the men cln-
ployes. She reached the street unin-
! jured She said the flames spread 80
rapidly there was no time for any con-
oertod rescue work or for the regular
fire drill march to be carried out.
1T was all over in FASH she said.
The fire burst upon us. There was a
period Of great confusion. l do not
| know how l got TO the street, but think
! tainted. and was carried out by some
one unknown to me"
| Vernon Wilbur. superintendent of
service in the burned shop, said;
Lynn Dibble and l ran TO the fire
escape and climbed up our ladder. We
| dropped two girls to the men below.
/ They were standing five or six deep n
! each window, with the flames waving
! directly behind them. They were mad
/ with pain, and the sound of their cries
was as II he wind were bowling in
| cur ears"
/ one of the most pathetic cases at
| the hospital is that of Miss Ruth
/ Crotty, who is slowly dying from a
broken spine. She was one of those
who jumped from a window. Miss
Crotty has been in Binghamton only
one week, having come here from Port
Jervis 10 work with her two sisters.
neither Of whom, so far as can be
learned, escaped.
! when | first heard the alarm Of
fire. said Miss Crotty, II jumped from
my chair and started for the stairs, but
/ when | reached them they were 50
crowded with the other operators that
/ could not get down, and in another
instant the whole story was ablaze.
Mrs. Ida Hotaling, Of No. - Baldwin
| street. jumped from d third story win
dow On the north side of the building.
She was employed on the fourth floor
as an operator having been called TO
work yesterday morning after being
I off duty for three months. She said
she had intended staying away from
work until September !, but was sent
for yesterday because of a shortage of
help.
Mrs. Hotaling fractured her right
wrist and right ankle sprained her left
ankle and was badly burned about the
arms.
II thank God that escaped as easily
as | did" she said. When | found our
retreat down the stairs was entirely
cut off ] gave up all hope. ! felt my
way along the wall to a window and
threw myself out headlonS.
THE fact that there was but one
stairway kept many back she added.
THE staircase leading from the fourth
to the third floor was the only means OF
getting down, and when we reached
the third floor the rear staircase was
mass of flames, while the front stairs
were burning rapidly. The whole in
terror of the building was highly in
! flammable. the floors being soaked with
oil from the machines while the lint
and scraps on the floor we're innam-
mable material
! With Mrs. Hotaling at the hospital
was her son Harry Hotaling. who had
I believed his mother safe at home. He
was horror stricken when he learned
! she had been called TO work in the
morning and left for the hospital at
once in the hope of finding her there.
ri hot ipf
mother and her son was affecting.
! Esther Raskin, a Jewish girl, nine
teen years old, living with her aunt,
Mrs. j. s. Botick, Of No. > Isabelle
street, jumped from the second story,
receiving compound fracture OF the
! leg. She also was badly SCARED by
the flames.
When the fire alarm was sent in"
she said, everybody thought they were
| fooling' US, because they did ii two
weeks ago. But when | heard every
! body shouting Fire and saw them
running, l got up from my chGir and
ran down the stairs. When l reached
! the third floor l found the stairs afire,
I DUL ran QulChig OONii lItlii W THO ST.
ond floor. Here a dozen or more girls
had gathered, driven back by the fire
into the stairway Everything was IN
fire about me and / couldn't breathe.
managed to get 10 a window and
jumped. How long | lay ] don't re-
member. The next thing / knew it
seemed as though the ground all about
me was afire and / would roast TO
death. tried to get up. but fell back.
Then a dozen or more men rushed
over, picked me up and put me in an
ambulance.
THAT was the first time in my life
/ had so many fellows" she added, as
she smiled bravely.
Tried to Save Others.
Mrs. Ida Prentice, who has been en-
ployed by the Binghamton Clothing
Company for many years, did her best
to get the other women employees to