CANDY FACTORY FIRE
PANIC-STRICKEN EMPLOYEES •Btf Telegraph-Press Assoclatdon-Oopyiielit (Rec. November 7, 3.85 p.m.) New York, November 6, ; A fire destroyed a sis-story candy factory containing 500 employees at i Brooklyn. ' Some; of" the ■ girls jumped from the fourth story. Twenty , ■ are dcad, 'including a number of men, and fifty were injured - The fire escapes jambed und the .stair|waya wero tilled- with ilamos, which (prevented escape. Scores of panic-stricken men and girlsjumped,from tlie fire-escapes, when, by descending quietly thoy • could have escaped. : ; :f ' "
Part of the roof collapsed, burning, lnany.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 8 November 1915, Page 6
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89CANDY FACTORY FIRE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 8 November 1915, Page 6
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