By ED SHEPHERD
A man working next door to the factory when the fire broke out said, “I was upstairs in our work-room when one of the employees who happened to be looking out of the window cried that there was a fire around the corner. I rushed downstairs, and when I reached the sidewalk the girls were already jumping from the windows. None of them moved after they struck the sidewalk … Bodies were falling all around us … They stood on the windowsills tearing their hair out in the handfuls and then they jumped.” The above could be a description of recent industrial fires with hundreds of deaths and injuries in Thailand or China, but the statement was made on 25 March 1911 by the junior partner of Levy and Son, adjacent to the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York, USA.

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