DREADFUL HOLOCAUST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1810, 24 July 1913, Page 7

DREADFUL HOLOCAUST.

FIRE IN A FACTORY,

GIRLS UNABLE TO ESCAPE. ■ ALARM NEGLECTED. By Telegraph—Preas Association- -Copyright New York, July 22. At Binghamton, New York; State, forty .working girls perished in a Ere that destroyed an overall factory. When tho alarm was raised one hundred and twenty girls dashed panic-stricken from the building, which- was enveloped in flames in. a few minutes. The majority escaped with the firemen's help. Others clung to the fire-escapes, were caught by the flames issuing from the building, and fell to the pavements. Two bodies cut in two were found in the street after the fire had been extinguidied. Tho whole building was reduced to ashes in twenty minutes. (Rec. July 23, 10.55 p.m.) New York, July 23. • The latest particulars of tho Binghamton tragedy place the death-roll at fifty. After nightfall, searchlights were utilised in the search for bodies, the majority of which were recovered. Tho tragedy occurred with terrific swiftness, the whole building being a mass of flames in a few minutes. Twenty of the women heeded the alarm, and escaped easily; others dallied, thinking that the alarm -was merely for fire-drill. Tho unfortunate girls stood six deep round tho windows, screaming in ogony as tho smoke and flames reached them. Many of them descended the fire-escapes, only to fall into tho flames which were bursting out of the building on all sides. The fire-escapes wero apparently inadequate, and when the girls crowded them many fell off. Others threw themselves from the lower windows, more than a dozen escaping with broken limbs.

CONVICTS TRAPPED IN A FIRE. New York, Jnly 22. At the Oakley convict farm, according to a message from Jackson, Mississippi, -a fire occurred. . Thirty-five negro convicts were trapped on tho second floor of an antiquated convict cage, and perished in the flames. The men worked in the cotton plantations' during the day, and were penned in cages in tho night. . Tho origin of the fire is not known.