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5 SECTIONS. Volume 73. No. 84 NEW YORK CITY. SUNDAY.

MARCH 20. 1911. 08 PAGES. THREE CENTS. OVER 150 MOST OF THEM GIRLS.

DIE AS THE WEATHER TO-MORROW: UNSETTLED. FACTORY WORKERS CRAPER The Power RUSHING TEMPORARY COFFINS FOR THE VICTIMS. Forced to Windows by Flames, Scores Jump 1 EAGLE PERSONS, HAPLESS RAPS A Of a Name. fct to Death on Pavements Far Below. Many Frightfully Injured.

Wild Scenes Follow, as Flames, Starting in Rooms ot the liiiillill Triangle Waist Company at 23 Washington Place, Envelope 10-Story Structure Containing 800 Employes. A True Story, With a Moral. GREAT IS THE POWER of a name which has stood for years as a synonym for square dealing, for SATISFACTION GIVING. Its value is greater than can be expressed in language or computed in gold, for it is GOOD WILL. A little boy in Public School No.

44 was requested by his teacher to learn to recite the following splendid lines by Abraham Lincoln: "I am not bound to win, but I mil hound to he true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands vight stand with him while he is right, and l'AKT with him when lie goes wrong." The little boy learned it by heart. When the time came he recited the strong, virile feeling lines of the great emancipator. And when the teacher asked him to tell who wrote it, quickly the boy replied: "Abraham and Straus." Of course, the teacher was amused and so were the classmates.

But does not this innocent mistake of the bright little boy Bhow how' close to the people grows a store that deserves to grow? Its name becomes a household word, a family phrase. The store at that stage becomes an institution vith great obligations and responsibilities. The more these are recognized by the store the HORRIFIED CROWDS LOOK ON AS DOOMED VICTIMS JUMP Place the Charred Dead Lay in Morgue. More than 150 persons, according to the estimate at an early hour this morning nine-tenths of them girls from the East Side were crushed to death on the pavements, smothered in smoke, or shriveled crisp yesterday afternoon in the worst fire New York has known since the steamship General Slocum was -burned to the water's edge off North Brother's Island in 1904. Nearly all, if not all, of the victims were employed by the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors of a ten-story loft building at 23 Washington place, on the western fringe of the downtown wholesale clothing, fur and millinery district.

The partners of the firm. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, escaped unscathed from the office on the tenth floor, carrying with them over an adjoining roof Blanck's two young daughters and a governess. There was not an outside fire escape on the building. Only. Fire Escape Led Into a Pit.

The fire broke out at 4:45 P.M. Fire Chief Croker declared fjiat the mortality from the outbreak exceeded the deaths from the Park place disaster, the Windsor Hotel fire and the Park Avenue Hotel conflagration. In thi. case the fire spread with such rapidity that it was impossible for all of the 800 people penned in the eighth, ninth and tenth of the building, which was sup Rows Before Being Taken to Improvised 205 Henry street, died in St. Vincent's Hospital from multiple iniuriea received by Jumping.

WANDOFF, BERTHA, young girl, identified by pay envelope. WOMEN BUTTLE TO SEE THE OEAO The scenes on Charities Pier, beside the morgue, at the foot, ot East Twenty-sixth street, where Ihe dead bodies were laid out la a long row were like a new and vivid chapter ot Dante's Inferno. ti ii.l iari a nf nt.n nn.l 1 1.1 ren but mostly men fought, cursed, sobbed, struggled, raved and flung themselves in hysteria again and ngaiu at the policemen that held them back from the grisly line of corpses, each of which was covered with Its little white sheet. They were mad with the thought that a sister or a daughter or a sweetheart, crushed or charred almost beyond reeuguition, might be lying there on the pier. And the policemen, even while ihey wrestled LOWERING A BODY posed to be fireproof, to get out.

The single fire escape leading Li LIST OF Ai THE INJURED The list of identified dead Is ie follows MOSES BERNSTEIN Address on bank book, 3W East Fifth street. Manhattan. JANE BUELLO 23; 49 Stockholm street, Manhattan. JULIUS ABESSTEIN $7.71 In pocket; no address. ROSE CP.EBO 25; address unknown.

A. DO HI? MAN (Man) 235 Gold street, Brooklyn KLO BE (Woman); name on time card: J27.05 in nocketbook FANNY I.AUNSWALD 24; address un- known. MAX L.EV1NE AddresA unknown: identified--ty-pay envelope. BECKY NEIBERER 11): operator; ID Clinton street. fns RnsEM 27: Identified hr wn en velope, with J50 and $847 wrapped around herlee.

K. ROTHER TEDDIiS RATHXER $2.05 in pocket union card of Shirt Waist Workers. STRINT M. SELTZER- -REBECCA SEIDIKCU 17 10 Attorney President street. COTETA TERRANOVA 104 street, Brooklyn.

MRS W1TZNER 27; identified envelope. ROS1E WEYNKR by pay Unidentified Bead. Tli police decided to attach ugs. numbered' 'consecutively, to the dead bodies us tlioy were removed from the scene of lh Are. All dead Indies will be indicnted by numbers until they are identified.

Owing to the confusion', the police were unable to keep a consecutive record. The following aro the dead at the Morgue: No 3. Unidentified woman, 21 years old, 5 feet 2 Inches, hair, black button shoes and black stockings; clothing burned off; gold signet ring on left hand. No. 4.

Vnidentifltd man, 25 years. 5 feet 7 Inches, smooth shaven, black hair, brown striped coat, black trousers, black patent leather shoes. No. It. I'nidcntitieil woman, years, 5 feel 2 Inches, black hair, white bead earrings, black waist and Kkirt, white underwear, black shoes, signet ring wltb the Initials No.

IS. Unidentified woman, 23 years, feet 3 inches, dark complexion, leng black pony, coat, black skirt, black stockings, tan "shoes, envelope 1u stocking with $11.50, bearing one word, "Kaplan." No Woman, 25; 5 Cfeet 3 Inches, black button shoes stockings, red garters, most of the clothing burned off, light underwear, weighing about 150 pounds. No. 2. Woman, red waist, blaek slock-ings ond skirt, no shoes, one yellow metal ring on left hand set with blue etono, apparently an Italian, 27 years, 5 feet 7 inch.

No 18. Woman, 30, 5 feet 1 inch, black hair, black white waist with black stripes, no shoes, envelope with $10.17, another with $10, another with $00, another with $17. making $97 in all; two notes from foreign (Italian) banks; on one of the envelopes a name very much blurred; looked like "Shens." No. 150. Woman.

24 years, dark hair, red skirt, white underwear, black button shoes, black No. 22. Girl. 16 years, all clothing burned off except black stockings and black lace shoes. No.

20. Woman, 25 years, clothing burned off, ring on loft hand, black stockings, lace shoes, white underskirt, apparently Italian. No. 12. Woman.

25 years. 5 feet 6 Inches, dark hair, pair of earrings with white stones, plain ring on left hand, gray plnid skirt, white underwear, black and gray waist. No. 26. Girl, 18 years, black hair.

1.10 pounds, feet 1 inch, blue skirt, brown coat, blue underskirt, black stockings and black button shoes. No. 27. Woman. 30 years, Italian, 5 feet 3 inches, black hair, dark complexion, signet ring on left hand, with initials black velvet shoes.

No. 203. Woman. 35 years. 5 feet 3 inches, dark complexion and hair, black skirt, white waist, white underwear, black lace shoes, gold ring on left hand, gold ring on right hand, with a black and a white stone.

212. Woman, 20 years. 5 feet 2 inches. Xo. 130 pouatis, dark complexion, blue eyes, good teeth, black silk skirt, white waist, black handbag with the name Frances IJenent on pay envelope in the bag, containing No.

213. Woman, 23 years. 5 feet 3 inches, dark hair and complexion, black skirt, white waist, white underwear, lace shoes, black stqekings, postcard with the name Clotete Terrinoza, 104 President street, Brooklyn. No. 214.

Woman 25 years. 5 feet a inches, gold teeth, one in upper Jaw and one in lower Jaw. black skirt, black stockings button shoes, ring on right hand with Initials which appeared to be No. 216. Woman, 30 years, feet 2 inches, In Washington burning building, or through suffocation, or else had been trampled to death In the mad scramble to escape.

The vast majority perished by leaping from the windows. Of the total number of bodies on the pier and In the hospital shortly before midnight only thirteen were the remains of men. Fifty patrol wagons were pressed into service to carry the bodies from the scene of the cattstrophe to the pier. Before laying them out in rows each body was tagged with a number. Otherwise, in the terrible confusion, no progress at all would have been made In the work of Identification.

As a body was given a number and the numbers chosen ran up into the hundreds and wer no Indication of the number of victims such trinkets and vainables as were discovered were put into an envelope and marked With the same number as was attached to the body. Names Learned From Pay Envelope. The employes had Just been paid, and in must Instances the pay envelopes were on the dead bodies. The amounts la them ranged, for the most part, from $3.50 to $15, the average being about $10. The names of the dead girls were on their envelopes, and this made a part of the Identification work not so difficult as is usual In such cases.

But none of the street addresses were there. In a number of instances the pay envelopes were clasped tightly in the hand of a dead girl, who was about to take the1 money home AFTER THE FIRE. to her family when the terrible cry of Ui'e rang out In the building. J'' b0lle8 W'd, out aIon Chanties Pier a number of ttiem were I that the most feasible method of idem' licatjon was the long lino out of iloori. Continued on Page 5.

nuooKi.v.v is nni akk ahi.i; as a cxnufaoturini? center. It is surprising h': and are its manufacturing in luKtrics. Thu UUOOKI.YX INDUSTRIAL tXI'us (TiO.V In ufr held In the col-vnms i 'i to boom Urucklyn and lifr iri'laslrifls Call, write or telephone 6i Main tor details. Ad1' black hair, black skirt, button shoes white underwear, handbag containlnl $10. No.

210. 21 years, 5 feet, black eyes, dark complexion, black skirt, black waist two rings, one with three small stones and another with three small white stones. No. 2)7. Woman.

19 years, 115 pounds, black hair, white waist, gray skirt, black stockings, no shoes, one ring with one opal Betting, one plain gold ring, small gold luckeL No. 221. Woman, 30 years, 135 pounds, 5 feet 5 Inches, black hair, fur coat, black shoes with cloth uppers, gold earrings, blac dress, black stockings, plain gold ring, one ring witu white stone, gold upper teeth. No. 223.

Woman, 23 years, 135 pounds, 5 feet 4 Inches, dark complexion, black fur coat, yellow ring with two red stones and one pearl, $9 In with name Rose Welner. No. 229. Woman, 24 years, j( feet 2 Inches. 125 pouuds, dark hair, dark clothes, black velvet shoes.

No. 22S. Woman, 24 years, Italian, 135 pounds, dark hair, black waist and skirt. No. 230.

Wotiinn. 19 years. 6 feet 9 Inches, 135 pounds. black waist, gray sweater, gray striped dress, black stockings and shoes, gold ring with ft greenstone. No.

231. Woman, 19 years, Italian, most of clothes burned off, envelope with $15, with name Rose Crepo. No. 23. Male, 21 years, bank book with name Moses Bernstein, 309 East Fifth street.

No. 236. Woman, 30 years, red hair, 135 pounds, 5 feet. 5 inches, black skirt, blue waist, black Jacket, velvet button shoes, turquoise earrings. No.

234. Woman, 30 years, 150 pounds, ft feet 6 Inches, white waist, black skirt black shoes and atocklngs, one ol'al earring, other ear burned off. No. 256'4. Woman, 19 ymrs, 12tj pounds, 5 feet 6 inches, brown eyes and black hair, white waist, black Hklrt, velvet slippers, black stockings, plain gold ring.

INJURED. The following Is a lisr of injured and the hospitals where they are being treated: NATHAN BALL UT St. Vincent's Hospital. SARAH CAPRELLO St. Vincent's Hospital.

NATHAN ELMOND St. Vincent's Hospital. PASIB KITZE 11 Charlton street, Belle-vue Hospital. PAULINE GROSSMAN 98 Kast Seventh street; fractured ankle and numerous contusions; Bellevuo Hospital. EAGAR HARMK St.

Hospttul. ESTHER HARRIS 21, operator; 121 Chester sireot, Brooklyn, burns abuut body and face. ANNA HASSANAddress unknown; In hospital suffering from hysteria. DORA HIMELSTEIN 20; operator; 250 Madison street; Madison; shock. DORA HINSTEL St.

VJnconl's Hospital. GUSSIE KESSLER St. Vincent's Hospital. SARAH KUTI.A 18; 1503 Webster avenue; snrain of loft leg; St. Vincent's Hospital.

SAM LEVINE 29; elevator; 1982 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn; flesh on hands torn. DAISY LOPEZ 24: operator; 11 Charlton street: legs broken: burns about face and body. Not expected to live; New York Hospital. ANNIE MESISOLES 18; waist maker; 12tf East One Hundred and Tenth street; internal Injuries. ANNIE MILLER 17; waist maker; 154 Attorney street; fracture of left leg.

KATE ROBI.VO St. Vincent's Hospital. ANNIE ROSEN 90 Broadway; hysterics; no injuries. KATE Rl'BENO 17; waist maker; 2C5 Madison street; snock. GUSSIE RUTLINA 20; operator; 161 Madison avenue; body and general contusions.

FREDA VELAKOKSKY 20; operator; C39 East Twelfth street; legs broken; burns about face and body; not expected to live; New York Hospital. BERTHA WAINTRUP 20; 205 Henry street; jumped from tenth floor; picked up unconscious; taken to hospital: legs fractured and internal injuries. CECELIA WALKER St. Vincent's Hospital. BERTHA WAYENDUFF St.

Vincent's Hospital. BERTHA WEATEL 17; waist maker; 205 Henry street; right leg broken; internal injuries. NATHAN ZALLUT 25; cutter; 736 Ease Fifth Btreet: shock. DURLEY, HYMAN. 20, operator, 326 Christopher avenue, the Bronx, injured by falling glass, lacerated head; sent home.

MESHELL, HYMAN, 22, turker. 332 East Fifteenth street, dug out of cellar, contusions of body and suffering from shock and internal injuries; St. Vincent's Hospital. FE1BISCH, REBECCA, 17, 10 Attorney street, died in New York Hospital from multiple injuries, received by jumping. WANDRUS BERTHA, 18 years, operator.

llfnry'n "Brut-Covef" or "Special See" The Wine f.r th.ise wh" Know I'hampaKne. It. T. PKWKY SONS US Fulton St, i-Adv. if from the huge structure, apart from the stairways, the elevators and the windows, ran down to a courtyard of the sort that is found in many business structures in Manhattan a pit from which there could be no outlet in such an emergency.

The building, which is at the corner of Greene street and Washington place, runs about 100 feet on each street and is used by various manufacturers. It adjoins the big University Press building, where there is a printing office, a huge bookbindery and a law school. There were few people in the University Press building at the time the fire started, and although there was a small panic among them the young women and men, and professors who were there got out safely, and tried to help the unfortunates in the burning building. The three upper floors were occupied by the Triangle Waist Company, manufacturing shirtwaists and other articles of women's attire. Just what caused the fire is not known and probably will not be discovered until the searching investigation already under way, is completed.

All that is known at the present time is that the flames broke out on the eighth floor at about fifteen minutes before 5 o'clock. Although the fire spread with great rapidity the men employed in the factory did their best to prevent a panic. But the young women were panicstricken. There were so many of them that, it was impossible for all to get away. The rear of the building looked out on an airshaft which backed on the walls 'of surrounding buildings.

Leading to this shaft was the only fire escape on the building. The other exits were by the elevator, wholly inadequate in an emergency, and by the roof. Doomed Operative Fight for Their Lives. Many of those on two upper floors had sense enough to flee to Ihe roof, but the crowds of the panicstricken operatives were so great that the stairways and the scuttle leading to the roof were thronged and jammed. Women and men tore at each others' clothing in their frenzy to get away.

The story of the awful panic cannot be told coolly by any of the survivors. They were all suffering from the shock last night and could not give details. All they knew was that there was a wild delirium of anxiety to get out. The stairs leading to the street were fire-locked and escape in that direction was impossible. There was flame all around the workers in a few minutes.

The man in charge of the elevator proved to be a hero. He is Joseph Zitto, a young Italian, who stuck to his post bravely. Ho made his trips, carrying passengers to the limit of the car, just as-rapidly as possible. The elevator made seventeen trips to the upper stories and even while the heat was so intense that the cables of the car seemed to twist the elevator man stuck bravely to his work. But when he got to the eighth floor on the eighteenth trip he found the doors to the elevator so jammed with shrieking women and men that he could not open them.

The people, so penned, with fire burning all about them, were left to their fate. People in Street Witness Horrible Scenes. While all this was going on the people in the street were witnessing the most horrible scenes. Women were at the windows, with fire glaring behind them, their clothing in some cases burning from their bodies, all imploring assistance. An alarm had been sent out from a nearby box and the engines and hook and lad errnater is its Et'OWtfl in bust II i it a a i.

I I ness auu in mc esteem uu. iuskdii, We wish to tell this little boy that we feel honored in his mistake and will take the words HE has learned by heart to the HEART of this business. When Lincoln said them he was in the throes of a nation's indecision. He was not sure lie would win, but pressed ahead with the courage of the conviction that he was right. When the name of a store has become synonymous with square dealing, with large events, with broad policies, with all that is best in store keeping, the mere adding of that name to an announcement is the most potent appeal possible to the public.

For years the name of Abraham aud Straus has been appended to the greatest merchandising events in this community. It has been linked with SATISFACTION GIVING. Never before has public preference more strikingly shown the good will gained than In the season at hand. And the sales that have caused such comment are but the heralds of the bold, broad. splendid merchandising events to come.

Store Your Furs in the Safest Place. BEWARE THE MOTH. Despite the momentary cold spoils the moth 13 preparing to begin his campaign of destruction. Cold storage should be considered now. SAFETY is the prime requisite.

Our is pronounced by experts to be the safest in the world they call it the "Model Plant." We give over to this branch of our business the enormous space ot 211,240 cubic feet, a plant with the greatest storage capacity in Brooklyn. Call 6100 Main or write to Cold Storage, Abraham and Straus, aud our expert will call upon you at once to get your goods. Bicycles. I his will be the greatest Bicycle season in years. Here are good Wheels: 15 inch boys' Fay Bicycles, 16 inch, 18.98, and 18 inch, 20, 22 and 24 inch men's Warren Bicycles $22.98 Women's 20 inch Warren Bicycles, Men's 22 inch Winfield Bicycles, $19.93 The above bicycles fitted with N.

D. Coaster Brakes at an additional cost of $4.00 each Bicycle Sundries. Have you seen the "Sirene Demo" Horn? Makes as much noise as an automobile horn, 98c. to $2.49 each Bicycle Bells 14c. to 98c.

each Oil Bicycle 98c. to $1.98 Gas Bicycle to $3.49 Bicycle Foot Pumps. 49c. to $1.75 J-fil Vi 1 1 v- i -t 1 A 'A 4. 4 4 A About Tifty Burned Keniains Were Founfi jn the Various Floors by the Firemen and Taken to the Street by This Means.

with them and thrust them bock, sobbed and cursed in sympathy. i At 11 o'clock 136 bodies had been laid on the pier, and the writhing and moaning taken to the morgue and to several uif-liue of relatives reached for a block 'erent police stations. Then It was found der trucks came tearing into the street. The crowd on the sidewalks were imploring those at the windows not to jump and shouting to them to wait for the firemen. But the firemen were to help when they came.

Their ladders only reached to the seventh floor of the big building, fifteen feet from the victims at the. windows. Before the firemen got there women and men were jumping, shrieking and ablaze to the street. Continued on. Page 5.

along First avenue. Of these 131 bodies fifty-four were charred and burned beyond the possibility of recognition. The rest of the victims bad met their death when they leaped to the street from the I.AKKWOOII lle.illliful open nlc life Meal Mot'-r Run r.il.i Carnival Gulf. I.AI'KKI, I.ALTtKL-IN-TliE-t'INES. -AUV..