Newark, NJ Fire, Nov 1910   Many Other Women and Girls, Caught
in a Flame-Swept Factory, Missing.   Two Fire Escapes on it
Useless, and Victims, Ablaze, Leaped Out of High Windows.
Firemen's Nets Smashed to the Ground with the Weight of Plunging
Women.   Scores Fought in Vain to Reach the Ladders the Firemen
Threw Up to Them.   Roof and Floors Fell Within Half an Hour,
Carrying Down Dead and Dying---Defective Law Alone to Blame.
Twenty-three women and girls were killed, at least forty were
injured, and an unknown number are missing as the result of a
fire which destroyed a factory building at High and Orange
Streets, Newark, in a few minutes yesterday morning. The
building was fifty years old and was saturated with oil. The
flames spread with great rapidity, and in a few seconds after
the first alarm flames were bursting from every window.  The two
or three hundred women employed on the four floors of the
factory were panic stricken. It is likely enough that if they
had kept their presence of mind more of