New-York tribune., 1922-10-31
1 Dies, 8 Hurt
As L Fact0ryin
Burns
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/ which seemed to sweep through the
! whole top floor. In this factory ut the
/ time were Samuel kieinman and Louis
Weinsseia. officials of the company,
Al and II, C. Niehoisbcrg, sa,esn,en.
and Sebastian Ruccabone, besides Miss
Girsisy, the bonkkeeper
They ran Tor tho nearest window.
One OF the Nichoisbergs ieaped from
the sill and hooked his fingers over
the coping Of the roof. His brother
, boosted him and when he had reached
the comparative safety of the roof he
; lay flat with his arms extended and
drew his brother up. Together they
hauled Kleinman UP beside them.
Riccabonc lost his footing when he
tried to stand erect on the window
ledge and was piungsng TO the street
when his fingers caught on ;he sill
He managed to maintain his hold and
hang there. he said, antil fames beat
IN his face
Man Falls 20 Street
He remembers nothing more It was
then that he fell TO the street frac-
turing his skull, his spine and his
right leg. He is seriously burned also.
Miss Girsky was hanging ever the
window sill almost unconscious. She
maintained her position until her skirt
becoming intolerable she saw that fire.
men in the street had spread life
net and flung herself from the window.
She missed the net and barely missed
crashing down upon one of the firemen
supporting 1t. Her injuries are severe,
but she recovered consciousness at the
hospital and confirmed the statement
made by her employers that the fac
tory girls had gone home.
Nevertheless, SO vivid were the ac-
counts given By witnesses OF girls
pe.ched on window sills who made the
sign of the cross and then toppleti
backward into the flames, and of girls
faces which were pressed eagerly to 8
window only to vanish the next instant
in burst Of fame, tat District Attor-
ney John L. Rrston, OF Kings County,
and the police are making a canvass
Of the girls employed in the building.
Saw Woman in Window
Mrs. Rebeea Lasky, who lives at 1se
Thirteenth Street, said she looked from
her front window TO see several fourth
floor windows OF the factory build; ing
in flames. She said three men and
woman jumped from one of the win.
dows, that she saw half dozen more
women framed in it in s. struggling
mass for a moment and then smoke hid
them from her view. When the smoke
drifted away, she said, there was noth-
ing in the window but flames.
James Rogers, OF 3Sl Twenty-fourth
Street, Brooklyn, watchman in the
building, said ali official OF the shelac
company who was in the Office on the
street floor told him he smelied smoke
and shortly afterward he himself
srellea Il in the hallway.
Continuing to the fourth floor, he
said, he saw a crippled, hunch back clerk
who was employed there running to-
ward him in grctesQue leaps, wringing
his hands and sobbing. while behind
him came a line of fame. Rogers ran
out shouting the alarm and said that
on reaching the rear Of the building
ltbe side opposite to that seen by Mrs.
Lasky) he saw girls crouching on the
window sills, their clothes in flames.
As he looked, I've said, several of them
made the sign of the cross and then
fell backward into the fire.
Ruston Starts Investigation
James Mcnamara, of Ut Smith
Street, Brooklyn, an employee in
Brooklyn Edison Company garage next
door to the factory said he saw several
persons in a top floor window and tried
to rescue them with ladder he got N
the garage, but the ladder was too
short.
Five alarms, constituting borough
call, were sent IN for the Gre. The re.
port that several girls had been
trapped and met death attracted an
enormous crowd and the reserves from
several police stations were necessary
to control It.
District Attorney Ruston and Fire
Marshal Thomas Brophy started an in
xestigation on the spot, holding in
formal court in the garage adjoining
the burning building.
The two upper floors were burned
out and collapsed with the roof not
long after the firemen got 20 work.