The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-10-11
issued: 1911-03-27
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note: CLASSIFIED ADS I CENT A WORD _J V VOL. 9 NELSON. B. C. MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 27. 1911 NO. 291 TF, AWFUL FIRE TRAP Hundred and Fifty Victims in Twenty Minutes RAIN OF HUMAN FLESH AND BLOOD Worst Catastrophe Since Slo- cum Disaster—Frantic Leap to Death NEW YORK, March 26.—One hundred and forty-eight persons, nine-tenths of them girls from the East Side, were crushed to death on the pavements, smothered in smoKe and shriveled to a crisp In a factory fire yesterday afternoon In the worst disaster New York has known since the steamship General Slocum was burned to the water's edge off North Brothers island In 1904. One hundred and forty-one bodies had been recovered from the ruins at midnight and seven of the 40 injured had died In hospitals. This, it Is believed, completes the list of dead, moBt of whom are unidentified. Grief-crazed relatives Jiesieged the morgue as the bodies were laid out. Nearly all, if not all of the victims were employed by the Triangle Waist company on the eighth, ninth nnd tenth floors of a 1,0-story building at 23 Washington place, on the western fringe of the downtown wholesale clothing 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 no outside escape on the building. Origin Unknown. How the fire started will perhaps never ho known. A corner on the eighth floor was its point of origin and the three upper floors were only Bweiit. On the ninth floor 50 bodies were found, fi3 or more persons crushed to death hy jumping and more than 30 clogged the elevator shaft. The loss to property will not exceed $100,000. Rain of Flesh and Blood. Pedestrians going home through Washington place to Washington square at 10 minutes to 5 were scattered by the whizz of something rushing through the air before them. There was a liur* rlble slop on the pavement and a body flattened on the walk. Peop…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0383940
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History: https://touchstonesnelson.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text