Sixty May be Dead
in Factory Fire.
fhe Injured Were Rushed to Hos
pital After Einghamton Holocaust
and Many Will Die.
After several estimates had been
made as to the number of lives lost in
the fire that flattened the Bingham-
ton N. Y., clothing factory's plant, the
list of probable dead was increased to
sixty-five.
A careful estimate places the num-
ber of those in the building at the
time the fire started at 111. Of these
only fifty-three are known to be saved.
Six dead have been identified; fifteen
bodies, charred beyond recognition,
are at the morgue; seven injured are
in the hospitals; forty-six several
slightly injured, are safe at their
homes. Sleven have been reported by
relatives as missing, and twenty-six
others are unaccounted for.
A wisp of smoke and a spurt of
flame swept up the stairway leading
tc the second floor of a four-story
brick building at 17 Wall street, Bing-
bamton, N. Y. and tweaty minuies
later twenty-five lives had been lost
and fifty persons had been injured,
many of whom will not recover. -
The building was the factory of the
Binghamton Clothing company,
merly the Freeman Overall company,
employing 125 girls.
There were heartrending scenes
when several girls clinging to fire es-
capes were swept by sheets of flame
or jumped from the factory windows.
Exactly how many were penned in-
side was hard to determine in the '
panic.
E. J. Lawrence, bookkeeper of the
company, said that he was working
in the office when the first alarm was
sounded. The flames were under the
front stairway. There was also a rear
stairway and fire escapes at the south
side ot the building.
Mcst of the women were employes
{n the machine operating room on the
fourth floor. They made no attempt to
hurry from the building at first, think-
ing the alarm was a fire drill. Messen-
gers were rushed through the building
to dive the women out.
“Just then,” said Lawrence, “the
whole building burst into flames. It
was of the ordinary factory construc-
tion, with timber supports and brick
walls. But it went up like powder—a
puff and all was over. When the flames
rushed up the front stairway it was ;
awiul.
“The women were in a panic in an
instant. They rushed to the fire es-
capes and many of them leaped from
the windows.
“1 had 125 names on my pay rolls, |
but some of the employes were gone
on vacation. The lists are all inside |
1 didn’t have time |
the burned factory.
to put them away or close the safe. It
ig impossible for the present to call
the roll or get an accurate line on
those who are missing.”
Meanwhile the firemen had been
striving to stop the advance of the
flames. Their efforts were gradually
successful, but every building on the
west side of Water street, between
Spice alley and Henry street, was more
or less damaged.
During the fire twe explosions oc-
curred. Pieces of iron and brick were
blown through the windows of the Au-
tomatic Music company's factory near-
by.
Women and girls, too weak to go
further, dropped exhausted on the sin-
gle fire escape in the rear of the
building and literally roasted to death,
portions of the bodies dropping into
the street. Others jumped and were
killed.
Half a dozen of the panic stricken
girls rushed into the elevator, which
was standing on the fourth floor. A
moment later all dropped to their
death.
Twelve girls were rushed to the
hospital within half an hour after the
fire started. They were nearly all so
badly burned that identification was
impossible.
As the front of the building fell in
a human body was plucked from the
stairway by a daring fireman and
brought out to Wall street. He laid his
burden upon the ground and covered
ft with a blanket. It was the body of
a girl and was burned beyond recog-
nition.
The fire spread tc the postoffice, the
rear of which was burned off, and to
the buildings of the McKaller Drug
company, Simon O'Neill, the Bingham-
ton Motor Car company garage and
Christ church. The property loss will
be between $100,000 and $200,000.
Man, Hanged, Revives In Coffin.
Hersey Mitchell, colored, was hang-
ed Wednesday in the jail yard in
Starke, Fla., for the murder of another
colored man, and was declared dead at
the end of thirty-eight minutes by two
physicians. After his body had been
placed in a coffin, Mitchell, whose neck
had not been broken, revived and lived
three hours.
Wilkes-Barre Man a Suicide,
Charles S. Norris, of Wilkes-Barre,
Pa., superintendent of construction for
the Monongahela Valley Transit com-
pany at Clarkeburg, W. Va., shot and
killed himself in his apartments. He
left letters and checks closing up his
affairs.
Boy Blown to Pleces.
A stick of dynamite in the hip pocket
of Martin Funk exploded and blew
him to pieces when he fell during a
playful wrestling match with his broth.
er. Rowland Funk, the brother, had
his left hand blown off. Martin was
eighteen years old. Both boys resided
in Hudson, N. ¥. The acc! lent occur-
red in a tent where the Ffunks were
camping near Germantown, N. Y.
for- |
MAY SHUT OFF MEXICO SUPPLIES
iLcaders Seiieve to Compel Them to
Get Their Munitions Elsewhere
Would Quickly Quell Fighting.
The Wilson administration is ser. !
ous'y considering taking action to pre-
vent the shipment of arms and muni-
ticus of war to either the federals or
the rebels in Mexico.
Atl present the Huerta government
can ob:ain arms and suplies in this
country, but the Constitutionalists and
other rebels are barred flrom doing
likewise by the neutraiity proclamation
issued under the Taft administration.
The action under consideration by
the president and his advisers is to
witahold permits hereafter from the
Huerta and Carranza factions alike
and to force them to obtain munitions
of war elsewhere. Such permits are
now necessray for every shipment of
arms, no matter to whom consigned.
| It was also announced that the
president and a number of the party
leaders in congress were considering
the repeal of the neutrality proclama-
tion so that the rebels, as well as the
federals, could obtain arms and am-
munition in this country. Conferences
were in progress, and it was said that
many leaders had given their approval
of the plan.
Some expressed the belief, that it
the free exportation of arms were per-
mitted to all fractions in Mexico the
present situation might adust itsels,
without recognition of Huerta. The
Constitutionalists have repeatedly
: claimed that lack of arms was the only
| bar to quick victory.
i Acting Secretary of the Navy Roose-
velt called upon Rear Admiral Cowles
at Guaymas to investigate a report
that Thomas, assistant general super-
intendent of the Southern Pacific rail-
road in Mexico, was held for ransom
by Mexican federals there. The state
department was without information
on the incident.
State department reports say that
while the activities of American cow:
boys at Madera has strained conditions
at that piace, there is said to be littie
danger except to the persons respon
sible for the killing of two bandits
| under “El Mocho.”
General Pancho Villa, of the Con-
stitutional forces, is reported to be
taking an interest in the safety of the
Americans at Madera, the federals
having no force in the vicinity. Re.
ports received by the state department
had calsed alarm by stating that all
the Americass at Madera were in dan
ger of a massacre.
Thousands of students bearing Japa-
nese flags greeted the new Japanese
| minister, Mineichiro, in Mexico City,
Mex., in spite of the suggestion of the
| Japanese legation that a demonstra-
tion be prohibited.
The minister, in a speech from the
| rear of the special train, expressed his
t appreciation and characterized Mexico
{ and Japan as brother nations. Strong
| forces of soldiers and mounted police
. served to counteract any tendency to
| disorder.
Says Vision of Satan Prompted Him to
Cut Off Man's Head.
Thomas Hutchins, forty-five years
| old, foreman for the Spring Rock Wa-
| ter company, was killed by a laborer
| in Plymouth township, near Wilkes
| Barre, Pa.
| The water company is laying a line
| of water pipes there, and employs a
largs number of laborers.
Hutchins was in a stooping position,
arranging some levels, when Mike
Brehis came up from behind and
struck him a violent blow on the head
with a shovel. Hutchins was rendered
uncoascious. The laborer then took a
hatchet from Hutchins’ hand and hit
him a powerful blow on the neck,
severing the head.
Brehis then fled to his boarding
house. He returned in a short time,
dressed in his best clothes. His fellow
countrymen obtained a rope and would
have hanged him to a tree had not the
American workmen interfered.
It {s&s not known that the foreman
and the laborer had any quarrel. One
report hag it that the man went sud-
denly insane. Brehis was locked up.
He declared that the devil prompted
him to do the deed and that he saw
his satanic majesty crouching on the
shoulders of his victim.
Walks Fence to Escape Dog; Impaled.
Foster Wagner, of Landingville,
near Pottsville, Pa., seven years of
age, chased by a dog, climbed upon a
fence to escape. While walking along
the top stringer he lost his balance
and fell. Several of the tips of the
fence pickets entered his right side.
His condition is critical.
Jail for Mississippi Official.
Leigh Watkins, deputy state land
commissioner of Mississippi, who was
arrested July 16, charged with em-
bezzling state funds, pleaded guilty
in Jackson and was sentenced to @
year in jail.
Colored Woman Dead at 114.
Mary Morgan, colored, 114 years old,
died in Millen, Ga. She was the oldest
woman in Georgia.
Freezes to Death In New York.
Hugo Meisner, a young helper in a
Brooklyn ice plant, was found frozen
to death in a compartment which he
hd entered to adjust the machinery.
His body was stiff and stark. The tem.
perature on the stret at the time was
pearly 80.
Mangled to Death by Reaper.
William S. Walker, superintendent
of the E. V. D. Skillman stock farm
at Ewingville, N. J., while at work on
» reaper and binder was stricken and
fell inside the machine. His head was
terribly mangled and he died instantly.
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i The roller is busy rolling on the state road.
The oats crop will be ready to cut in a few
days, and it looks weil filled.
Mrs. John Stamm came down from Altoonato
| visit a few days with her sisters.
James Longwell had the misfortune to lose
three hogs last week, with cholera.
The farmers are still busy storing the wheat
and hay crops, both of which are extra fine.
The Boy’sclubof the Y. M. C. A. will go into
camp for a few days the first part of August, near
Howard.
ble and granite dealer, with his family returned
home in their auto, Monday, after enjoying a few
day's visit among old friends.
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