ASIN: B00O2JKL5O
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 43
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fire by survivors and workers in the factory*Explains the aftermath of the fire and the changes made in response to it*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"Word had spread through the East Side, by some magic of terror, that the plant of the Triangle Waist Company was on fire and that several hundred workers were trapped. Horrified and helpless, the crowds — I among them — looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened windows, pause for a terrified moment, and then leap to the pavement below, to land as mangled, bloody pulp. This went on for what seemed a ghastly eternity. Occasionally a girl who had hesitated too long was licked by pursuing flames and, screaming with clothing and hair ablaze, plunged like a living torch to the street. Life nets held by the firemen were torn ...
