New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-23
Triangle Disaster ParalIeled in Its Terrible
Features-Many Girls Jump from
High Windows.
HEAT TOO GREAT FOR RESCUE
Apparatus Unable to Get Near Clothing Company
Plant Employees Thought Alarm a Drill and
Moved So Slowly Escape Was Cut Off,
Building Had All Safety Devices.
[By TeIegraph TO The Tribune. J

Bnghamton ~ Y July 22At least fifty it esti-
mated pershed fire that swept the four factory OF the
Bnghamton Clothing Company this afternoon.
Twenyx bodies had been recovered midnight is be-
ved that many bodies the smoking ruins and of
thirty injured persons being City Hospital and pri
institutions is feared that dozen beyond hope OF re-
covery. Most of the victims and girls
Strangely enough the vigilance which guard the
factory employees from disaster this kind their undoing The
frequent fire drills held the inspectors had rendered them careless
sounded they took their time in leaving the
building, only to find their exits cut off.
had scarcely reached
of fame from the factory windows enshrouded
them persons death sight of
The fire. which believed started by the careless throw
cigarette match its suddenesS bears resemblance
the Triangle Company holocaust New York City where
when nlammable material which the en-
ployes working which Uttered the floors bazed
rapdy and the imprisoned workers jumping
from the death The parallel here fails only in the
lesser height construction of the building and in the
extent Of the list Of dead and injured
1t was 23O this afternoon William Bennett
on the second floor factory the odor of smoke
and opening the door, gray mounting the
Promptly he turned and the gongs through
the building.
The building equipped with automatic alarm system which
also nkled at 23o o'clock Freeman wife of the
proprietor telephone the central e station but the
flames drove her from the instrument.
Some person Warren and Chenango streets tour
blocks sv,av saw burst pulled the box there
That meant ten delay part of the remen But
even those who arrived unable do anything The hrst
puff of fame hardly dsened before the fire eaped along the
up walls the elevator shaft along the floors and
ceilings There was roar and the flames beched
forth clear which the building frond wither
the shade trees on bank and corchng the building
across alley at the
On the first floor was in the cutting
on the second employees in the finishing on
third floor twenty and some eighty to one hunoreo machine
operators the fourth floor.
When the sounded the girls the floor turned
esev from the machines emarng That another FIRE drill
Manv Of the girls reluctant to because they
were piece and the time required tor re drill meant
money pockets They waited to asten their clotn
which had been Of the heat then started down.
stairs
On the third floor landing stood supposed to be the fore
man Sidney Dmmoc missing He capped his hands and
cried: Hurry, girls! Hurry
The girls warning the third floor landing and then
saw that the stairway leading the first floor was IN flame here
deveoped the sign Of panic The employees halted then
and with one back upstairs the floor
the flames following close at their heels
All fed toward the rear stairway only find this in flames
Then beoan wild scramble the fire of which there were
one the east end the south side of the factory
T. GIRLS crowded through windows the fire escapes,
cnging there shng for help Inside the room girls were
ohtne for places windows Some to the front ano
sanene from smoke plunged to the haggng hfV
feet below Body after body shot downward
The crowd rushed forward to drag the mangeo lorl away
The intense heat drove every back Then burst OF arne from
several windows enshrouded the crowded he escapes lhe was
one last agony Human forms were seen 10 anu ~ Up
. .L Ground The roof in the walls toered and with
great crash bore living and dead in seamg smoking pie