Hellraisers Journal: From The New York Times: “Men and Girls Die in Waist Factory Fire; Trapped High Up…”

Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925 —————

Hellraisers Journal – Sunday March 26, 1911
New York City – Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Claims Many Young Lives

From The New York Times of March 26, 1911:

Three stories of a ten-floor building at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 [146] young men and women-at least 125 of them mere girls-were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below.

The building was fireproof. It shows now hardly any signs of the disaster that overtook it. The walls are as good as ever; so are the floors; nothing is the worse for the fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories.

Most of the victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who fought their way to the windows and leaped met death as surely, but perhaps more quickly, on the pavements below.

All Over in Half an Hour.

Nothing like it has been seen in New York since the burning of the General Slocum. The fire was practically all over in half an hour. It was confined to three floors-the eighth, ninth, and tenth of the building. But it was the most murderous fire that New York has seen in many years…..

[Emphasis added.]

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6

The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Mar 26, 1911
https://www.newspapers.com/image/20667851/

Tag: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: The Race to the Bottom

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Song – Mike Stout & Human Union
Lyrics and music by Mike Stout
“Jumping form the windows of wage slavery
Down onto the sidewalks of eternity.”