NEW YORK PROBLEMS AND UPGRADES!
MARCH 25, 1911
Tragedies
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Today during work hours the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burnt.
This is an image of two lady strikers !om the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory walking the picket line.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire started when one of the men dropped a lit cigar onto a pile of shirtwaists. The fire grew rapidly and soon the entire eighth floor was burning. It started spreading to the ninth and tenth floors where more workers
continued working, oblivious to the fire below them. The fire caused the death of 146 garment workers-123 women and 23 men. The workers were killed by the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims... continued on pg#2
Opposed The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory should not be accused of the workers deaths. I, ..., say that because of the reasons the factory is being accused. The factory was just trying to collect food for their families and they cannot be blamed. The locked doors were a thief precaution. If they didn’t lock the doors then many shirtwaists would have been stolen. The heaps of flammable cloth was expected, you can’t run a shirtwaist factory without cloth. The fire escape would have been good if so many didn’t try to use it at once, and the long hours are to be expected in working times like these, therefore, the owners should not be blamed. -Harris Blanck
DEVASTATING 7.7 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES RUSSIAN TURKISTAN A 7.7 earthquake strikes near Almaty casualties resulted from landslides in Russian Turkistan killing 450 or more triggered by the earthquake. This is a people and injuring another 740 people devastating loss to the country. Should injured. It struck on January 3. The you wish to help by volunteering to help earthquake and resulting landslides build houses or by sending supplies to the destroyed 1,094 houses and 4,545 yurts now homeless refugees, please comply. (which was most of the city). It also left 125 miles of surface faulting. The most
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