Triangle Shirtwaist by John Ojelabi https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1 1911 Factory Fire en-us 2016-08-30 14:07:48 UTC 2026-01-23 23:54:46 UTC hello@padlet.com The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history. 1005546 https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120569730 2016-08-30 14:25:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120569730 1005546 https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120960905 The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers 123 women and 23 men who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged 16 to 23; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was Providenza Panno at 43, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and "Sara" Rosaria Maltese.]]> 2016-08-31 20:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120960905 Because the owners had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a then-common practice to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft  many of the workers could not escape and jumped from the high windows. 1005546 https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961375 2016-08-31 20:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961375 1005546 https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961553 Within three minutes, the Greene Street stairway became unusable in both directions. Terrified employees crowded onto the single exterior fre escape, which city officials had allowed Asch to erect instead of the required third staircase.]]> 2016-08-31 21:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961553 The weight and impacts of these bodies warped the elevator car and made it impossible for Zito to make another attempt. William Gunn Shepard, a reporter at the tragedy, would say that "I learned a new sound that day, a sound more horrible than description can picture  the thud of a speeding living body on a stone sidewalk". 1005546 https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961798 2016-08-31 21:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1005546/f77s7xiyjch1/wish/120961798