Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1911 — HOLOCAUST IN NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

HOLOCAUST IN NEW YORK

•Fire in the Triangle Waist Co. factory, located in the upper stories of a New York sky-scrap-er, caused the death of 141 women, girls and men Saturday afternoon. The fire started from a cigarette stump thrown in the cotton waste under a counter. Most of the victims were girls between the ages of 15 and 30 years, and many lost their lives by hurling themselves from the windows of the eleventh story of the building, to be crushed to a shapeless mass on the pavement below. Inadequate fire protection, only one fire escape and the allowing of waste to accumulate on the floors to the depth of two or three inches is responsible for the disaster. There were 700 employes in the factory, mostly Jews and Italians living near the scene of the ’fire.