https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire 1911 Factory Fire en-us 2016-08-30 14:07:07 UTC 2016-09-01 04:42:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 1006827 https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/120835639 "At an emotional protest meeting on Twenty-Second Street four days after the fire, relatives of the dead broke into hysterical cries of despair.  People began fainting, and over fifty persons were treated.  The editor of a socialist paper told the crowd that. 'These deaths resulted because capital begrudged the price of another fire escape." ]]> 2016-08-31 14:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/120835639 1006827 https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/120839222 Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were charged with manslaughter, two weeks later after the incident; people were infuriated when up to 156 people died due to the fire. 

]]> 2016-08-31 14:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/120839222 1006827 https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121003257 According to Fire Chief Edward Croker, the exits were locked and the men had to chop the doors down to force themselves in. Thus, the workers were trapped inside the building throughout the treacherous fire. 

]]> 2016-09-01 04:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121003257 1006827 https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121004692 Many employees reacted in panic and tried to make up different possibilities to try to escape. Workers went through elevators, but soon they began to malfunction and the only others escape option was the buildings roof; where people like Joseph Flecher  claimed to see  "my girls, my pretty ones, going down through the air.  They hit the sidewalk spread out and still." 

]]> 2016-09-01 04:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121004692 1006827 https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121005647 Many of the factory workers were teenage girls, immigrants and people who spoke little english. ]]> 2016-09-01 04:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1006827/Triangle_Fire/wish/121005647