THE FIRE OR THE FALL

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13901, 28 November 1910, Page 7

THE FIRE OR THE FALL

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. j

GIRLS JUMP FROM A BURNING ! BUILDING. i

TJn-.ted Pre*>> Association—By Klectm j Tel«gr».ih—Copyright. j (Received November 2Sth. 12.40 a.m.) ! NEW YQUK, November '27. Twenty-four ftirl,.-; were either burned , to death or crushed on a pavement by , jumping from a paper-box factory on fire at Newark. New York State. ' A panic broke out, and the girls ; dashed to the tire-escape and leajK-d ; to the strtvt. \ An enormous crowd of firemen, with . life nets, saved thiriy girls clinging to winclow-lerlgp.s and iiro-eseupes. ; The origin of the iire. is unknown. ; Six other girls are missing. Tho building was gutted, and the ; bodies hava not yet been recovered. . Fifty of tl:n girls injured wero taken j to the hospital. ! The clnVf of tho fire brigades was i injured by a falling wall. | The body <»f one was found j seated at a j.inrhiiio in ;:n altitude of j working. She had evidently failed to j rcalir-e her peril or had fainted. j Numbers of the crowd knelt on the ! street below and prayed. I

Tho rjirls as they fell hit tho firemen in their descent and rebounded from the nets on to tho pavement. Tho loss is estimated at £30,000.