nday morning--second |
|story._ |
| At dawn today it was estimated that |
|25,000 persons had visited the temporary |
|morgue on the covered pier at the foot of|
|East Twenty-sixth street, set aside to |
|receive the bodies of those who perished |
|in the Washington place fire on Saturday |
|afternoon.--_Monday morning--second |
|story._ |
| The horror of the fire in the ten-story|
|loft building at Washington place and |
|Greene street late Saturday afternoon, |
|with its heavy toll of human lives, grows|
|blacker each succeeding hour.--_Monday |
|afternoon._ |
| Of the 142 bodies in the morgue as a |
|result of the Triangle Shirt Waist |
|factory fire, all but fifty had been |
|identified this morning.--_Monday |
|afternoon._ |
On Tuesday other lines opened up for the rewrite man:
| Sifting down the great mass of |
|testimony at their disposal, city and |
|county officials hoped today to draw |
|closer to the source of responsibility |
|for Saturday's factory fire horror in |
|which 142 persons lost their lives. |
|Investigations started |
|yesterday.--_Tuesday afternoon._ |
| With all but twenty-eight of the |
|victims of the Triangle Shirt Waist |
|factory horror identified, District |
|Attorney Whitman continues steadily |
|compiling evidence. Funerals for scores |
|of victims are being held today, while |
|the relief fund, etc.--_Tuesday |
|afternoon._ |
| Borough President McAneny of Manhattan,|
|the district attorney's staff, the fire |
|marshal, the coroner and the state labor |
|department are bending every energy |
|toward fixing the blame for the loss of |
|the 142 live
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