FIRE TRAGEDY AT A FACTORY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14746, 27 October 1915, Page 5

FIRE TRAGEDY AT A FACTORY.

MANY GIRLS BURNED TO DEATH. OTHKUS FATALLY CRUSHED. Press Association.—Telegraph-- Copyright. PITTSBURG. October 25. Eleven girls and one man were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the factory of the Union Box Papor Company. The fire started in an adjoining feed store and spread to tne factory All escape was cut off. A number of girls jumped from the building and were caught by passersby, but many were crusned to deatn. More deaths are expected. Several additional girls are missing. M GIRLS KILLED, 8 INJURED, THREE OTHERS MISSING. NEW YORK, October 26. A disastrous fire occurred lu a four-storeyed factory In Pittsburg. As a result 14 girls were killed and eight injured. In addition three girls are misu'ng. The rapidity of the flames cut off the third and fourth floors, where the majority of the girls were working. They crowded Into dressingrooms. where their bodies lay in a heap. Two men on the second floor told the girls to jump. They caught such as obeyed the order, lowered them as far as possioe, and thsn dropped them to the sidewalk.