GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 985, 28 November 1910, Page 7

GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH.

PANIC IN A FACTORY. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN • NEW JERSEY. MANY LIVES LOST. By Teleffrapli—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. November 28, 1 a.m.) Now York, November 27. Twenty-four girls have been burned to doath, or crushed on tho pavement in jumping from a four-story paperbox factory, which was on fire at Newark, New Jersey. A panic broke out, and the girls dashed for the iiro escape, and leaped from it into the street. An enormous crowd of firemen with life nets saved thirty girls, who were clinging to window ledges and fire escapes. The origin of the firo is unknown. Six other girls are missing, but as the building was gutted, bodies ; cannot yet be recovered. Fifty of the girls were taken to the hospital. The Chief of tho fire brigades was injured by a falling wall. One body was found seated at a machine in the attitude of working. The girl had evidently failed to realise her peril, or had fainted. Numbers of those- in the crowd Imelt and prayed. The bodies hit tho firemen in their descent, and rebounded from the nets on to the pavement. ■ Tho financial loss through the fire is estimated at £30,000.