![]() Up on a covered pier at the foot of East Twenty-sixth Street. The bodies were taken to a temporary morgue set Officers filled coffins and loaded them into Police triedĭesperately to keep crowds of hysterical relatives from overrunning theĭisaster scene. Through heaps of humanity looking for signs of life. Of thirty or more bodies on the Greene Street sidewalk. Ten minutes more it was practically "all over." Water soaked a ![]() It took only eighteen minutes to bring the fire under control, Others, according to survivorĮthel Monick, became "frozen with fear" and "never moved." The ninth floor, forced to choose between an advancing inferno and Sink to the bottom of the shaft, leaving it immobile. The weight of the girls caused the car to The elevator shaft, and landing on the roof of the elevator compartmentĪs it made its final descent. A few other girls survived by jumping into Who grabbed a cable that ran through the elevator and swung in, landing Person on the last elevator to leave the ninth floor was Katie Weiner, ![]() The small Washington Place elevators before they stopped running. Those that acted quickly made it through the Greene Street stairs,Ĭlimbed down a rickety fire escape before it collapsed, or squeezed In the hell of the ninth-floor, 145 employees, mostly youngĭie. Workers on the tenth floor, all but one survived. The last tenth-floor worker saved was an unconscious girl with ![]() So as to allow the escaping employees to climb to the school Sommer and his students found ladders left by painters and placed them Of hysterical Shirtwaist workers stumbling around on the roof Teaching his class at the New York University Law School when he saw They hit the sidewalk spread out andįifteen feet above the Asch building roof, Professor Frank Assistant cashier Joseph Flecher looked downįrom the tenth floor roof to see "my girls, my pretty ones, going down Now that it had stopped running the only escape route was to the roof Like wildcats." Some employees had fled through the elevator, but Up to the tenth floor where he found panicked employees "running around He ran up to theįloor, but found the fire so intense he could not enter. The blaze into the Greene Street staircase. On the eighth floor, onlyĪnd Samuel Bernstein remained in the gathering smoke and flames.īernstein told Lifschitz to escape, while he attempted a daring dash Blanck." Lifschitz tried next to alert the I told her there was a fire on the eighthįloor, to tell Mr. Headquarters of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory: "I heard Mary The narrow fire escape and Washington Place stairway orĭinah Lifschitz, at her eighth-floor post, telephoned the Terrified and screaming, girls streamed down A shippingĭragged a hose in the stairwell into the rapidly heating room, butĬame-no pressure. The wooden floor trim, the partitions, the ceiling. To fling water at the fire, the fire spread everywhere-to the tables, Triangle employeeīernstein grabbed pails of water and vainly attempted to put the fireĪs a line of hanging patterns began to burn, cries of "fire" eruptedĪll over the floor. Tables in the hundred-foot-by-hundred-foot floor. Leapt from discarded rags between the first and second rows of cutting Just then somebody on the eighth floor shouted, "Fire!" Several hundred Triangle Shirtwaist employees were teenage girls. Square, employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory began putting away On the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building just off of It was a warm spring Saturday in New York City, March 25, Relatives identify fire victims at the morgue (Close this pop-up window to remain on this page) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial × Check-out the new Famous Trials website at The new website has a cleaner look, additional video and audio clips, revised trial accounts, and new features that should improve the navigation.
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