Arizona republican., 1915-11-07
Thirteen Men and Girls Known Dead and Bodies of Twelve Others May Be Uncovered When Ruins Are Searched
FORTY INJURED
 MANY FATALLY
Worst Disaster in Factory District of New York Since the Triangle Waist Company Fire When 14S Employes Perished
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 NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-Thirteen men and girls lost their life in a fire which destroyed an old four story brick and wooden factory building in the Will liamsburg section of Brooklyn. A search of the ruins is expected to uncover the bodies of twelve other victims. eight of the girls who were reported missing tonight Of the forty injured in hos pitals, many were expected to die. and a score more were less seriously burned and bruised.
 The building was occupied by a candy manufacturing concern, and three firms manufacturing clothing, whose employees normally totalled 800 but more than third had been dis missed before the fire started. for a Saturday half holiday.
 Girl Discovers Flames
 The flames were discovered shortly before four o'clock by girl employe of the candy factory which occupied the ground floor and basement and were soon roaring up the elevator shaft around which wound the princi- pal stairway.
 There was one other stairway in the rear of the building and some of the entrapped persons escaped by that, but before the firemen arrived men and women were leaping from the windows.
 Today's disaster was the worst fac tory fire in New York since the Triangle Waist company which burned out sev- era! years ago with loss of 14s lives.
 
 escape for most of the employees in the building by stairs and elevator was impossible. The only fire escape be- came jammed. The flames drove the entrapped men and women to the win tioWs and forced them to jump. Of the eleven bodies recovered from the ruins. six were taken from the fire escape and four were found hanging out of windows. charred beyond recognition. Several of these were girls, burned to death in the sight of a great crowd of helpless spectators.
 Origin Is Unknown
 No enc could be found tonight to tell how the fire started, but within half an hour the roof of the building had col lapsed- In another hour it was noth- ing but tottering shell of brick walls. enclosing smoking ruins and probably the bodies of the missing.
 Not until the list of employees in the building has been checked up and the ruins earched. were the police willing tonight to believe that the death list would exceed twenty y-five. One Of the victims taken to the hospital, a man, CiieJs soon after from fractured skull
 Coroner Wagner started an immedi- ate investigation of the cause of the disaster The loss of life was chiefly among the employees of the Essex Shirt com pany and the B. l.. and W. Tailoring company. which occupied the third and fourth floors.
 Owners Are Arrested After a preliminary investigation by the authorities tonight, Mrs. Edward l.. Diamond. owner of the building and her husband. were arrested on charge of criminal negligence and remanded to gail without bail MT. Diamond said he was in the building at the time Of the fire. but claimed ignorance as to the cause. Four separate investigations were under way tonight in an effort to fix the responsibility for the loss of life. These were begun by the coroner. dis trict attorney. fire marshal and police department One additional body, that of man, was found in the ruins. bringing the total known victims up to thirteen