Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy:
Today, March 25 1911, a tragic accident occurred at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York city. 148 mostly teen girls died today as it was near closing time when Someone threw a match or cigarette into the waste basket which smoldered and the fire started. The accident might have been physically started by a match or cigarette but was mainly due to the lack of safety precautions and fire regulations set in by our government.
The fire occurred right before closing time at the factory. The fire ran rampant across the factory's lower floors. The fire hose was not working because it had no water getting to it. The fire came quick and most people on the 9th floor had no idea it was happening. Ethel Monick Feigen
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So trapped and scared they did the last thing they could do, hoping to get lucky enough to live they jumped. Frank Rubino states,” I was working with John P. Crawford and he was trying to make the connection. Then I saw the bodies begin to come down on the sidewalk and I hollered to him, "Come out of there, come out of there, you will get killed." Mary Domsk-Abrams Stated this,”The tragedy was even greater because of the fact that the firemen's ladders were too short and couldn't reach the ninth and tenth floors. Also, the nets spread to catch the jumpers were too weak, and many plunged right through to their deaths. I saw a number of firemen crying as they witnessed victims of the fire killed as they broke through the nets.” Lastly was sylvia Kimeldorf Statement about the girls last desperate attempt,”The firemen held us back in the doorway. The bodies were falling all around us and they were afraid to let us go out because we would be killed by the falling bodies.” None of the jumping girls lived, the nets were to weak and many fell to the death. The fire nearly consumed the top floors but still left the building standing. Many of the surviving victims state they have never gone back to the building and probably never