TERRIBLE FACTORY FIRE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 972, 28 March 1911, Page 3

TERRIBLE FACTORY FIRE.

150 LIVES COST. New York, March 26. One hundred and fifty persons, mostly girls, are dead as a result of a terrific conflagration at the Triaugle Shirt Waist Company's premises, Washington Place.. The fire started on the eighth floor. The girls, panic - stricken, jumped to the pavement, sixty being crushed by the fall. Fifty bodies were found on the ninth floor, where the flames overtook the occupants. The building was not provided with a single outside tire escape. The crowd watched the girls leap, but were unable to t ,aid them. The partners of the firm, Harris aud Blanck, escaped across the roofs, rescuing their two daughters and a governess. A number of girls in falling crashed through the windows inset in the pavement, into the cellars beneath. A crowd numbering thousands watched a man aud vvomeu emerge from a uiuth story window. The man kissed her aud flung her out at the life-net. He then leaped himself. Both were killed. Six girls climbed along the electric wires, but the strands parted aud all were killed. The fire brigade extinguished the flames within au hour, the walls being intact. Students from the adjoining law departmet of the New York University rescued forty by going across the roofs of a neighbouring house. The elevator men stuck to their posts aud rescued scores. It is estimated that there were 500 occupants in the building. Paris, March 24. A fire occurred at a cinematograph theatre at Lille, after a pet* formauce. A family of five living ou the premises perished.