Thoughtfully curated historical journalism
Hurl Themselves From Upper Floors of 10-Story Down Town Fire Trap
Bodies Piled By The Score In The Street
Blaze Started in Triangle Shirt Waist Co.’s Plant
Worst In The City’s History
Chief Croker Blames Municipal Building Department
New YorkYork, March 25.—A fire that spread like a spark in a powder train, trapped 2,000 employes of the Triangle Shirt Waist company, on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 10-story loft building at Waverly place and Greene street, at 5 o’clock this after noon.
More than 175 lives were lost. The police figures at midnight were 150 dead and 75 injured. One hundred and fifty had been taken to the morgue up to midnight. There were at that hour still 12 bodies on the ninth floor, according to Chief Croker, who was directing the work of removal. Three victims had died in St. Vincent’s hospital; three in Bellevue and one in the New York hospital. There were still a number of bodies in the basement and sub-basement of the structure, but it was said by the chief that it would be impossible to tell before morning just how many as the sub-cellar was completely filled with water and the cellar was waist deep. The water was being pumped out but this was an all night task.
New York. Feb. 24.—(AP)—While Broadway gossiped today of a bacchanalian party reported to have been given Monday night by Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, on the Great White Way, the official investigations to ascertain the facts were started. Police Commissioner McLaughlin took steps to determine whether there was a display of nudity and prohibition agents made preparations to learn whether a bathtub full of wine was served, as had been reported.
Published accounts of the supposed supper party said that wine was served from a bathtub in which a nude chorus girl reposed, dispensing the beverage to the guests, it was reported that approximately 200 guests at tended the party, in the Earl Carroll Theatre.
Mr. Carroll issued a flat denial of the bathtub-wine report. He said the party was entirely orderly and one which any man, even a minister, might have with propriety attended with his wife.
Drink Crazed Indian Even Then Succeeds in Kicking One Man Through Windshield of Auto
Lowville, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Bootleg whiskey was the indirect cause of four hours of darkness in this village last night.
Earlier in the evening a young Indian, Paul Arlette, who is alleged to have been In a frenzied condition because of holiday potations, entered an Ice cream store in the neighboring village of Naumberg and threatening to kill all the customers with a knife. He was subdued and bound with ropes only after 12 men had joined In the fray.
Engineers Considering the Feasibility of Plans for Structure to Outrank Woolworth Tower.
New York, Dec. 9.—New York is to have an 88-story office building outranking in height the Woolworth building, which has 61 stories, according to meager information obtainable in real estate circles.
No definite Information regarding the new building will be given the public for the present, it was said at the offices of Cass Gilbert, architect. It was admitted that the project was under consideration, although details are being withheld because negotiations for the size have not been closed.
The new mammoth structure will occupy an entire block in downtown Broadway, it is said.
The First Aviation Day of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Is Marked by Successful Demonstrations by Both Wright and Curtiss—Dirigible Balloons Come to Grief Very Quickly.
Yonkers, N. Y., Sept. 25—As the Clermont came within sight of the docks here the water in her boilers became exhausted and the engine became overheated. Her machinery was stopped, while a tug put a line aboard and towed the craft ashore.
New York, Sept. 29.—Wilbur Wright circled the great statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor in his aeroplane today. while in the upper part of the city two dirigible balloons failed ingloriously in their task. This, the first day of flight of the Hudson-Fulton celebration, was a victory for the heavier-than-air machine.
Chauffeur Races Blazing Acid Truck to Extinguisher.
NEW YORK. September 24.—John Owen, chauffeur for the Kalbfleisch Corporation, manufacturers of chemicals at Ellzabethport, N. J., was loading his truck with muriatic acid at a North River pier today when smoke issued from one of the containers. Spontaneous combustion was at work.