FATAL FIFE AT PITTSBURG
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST. PITTSBURG, October 25. Eleven girls and one man were burnt to death by a fire which destroyed a factory of the Union Box Paper Company. The fire started in an adjoining feed store, and spread to the factory. All escape was cut off. A number of girls jumped from the building, and were caught by passers-by, but many were crushed to death, and more deaths are expected. Several additional girls ?.re missing. NEW YORK, October 26. At the Pittsburg fire 14 were killed and eight injured. Three additional girls are missing. It was a four-storey building, and the rapidity with which the flames gained a hold cut off’ the third and fourth floors, where the majority of the girls were working. They crowded into the dressingrooms, where their bodies lay in a heap. Two men on the second floor told the girls to jump. They caught such as obeyed and lowered them as far as possible ind thence they dropped on to the sidewalk.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 31
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171FATAL FIFE AT PITTSBURG Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 31
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