Originally published in the Forverts, March 28, 1911 A Mother Wrote From Russia: “My Daughter! So Many Tragedies Occur In America; It’s Better For You To Come Home!” The Letter Remained Unanswered. – Two Joyous Weeks After The Wedding; The Catastrophe Disrupted Their Happiness—Other Heartrending Stories The desperate screams torn out of the young victims…
Originally published in the Forverts, March 26, 1911. The heart grieves, breath is held, eyes cry bloody tears. The disaster is too great, too dreadful, to be able to express one’s feelings. A mountain of people, of children burned to death! Young children, blood and milk, full of life’s force, lying in a pile of…
Originally published in the Forverts on April 3, 1911 Thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon, where the mass meeting about the vast tragedy of the fire was held. Wealthy aristocratic men and women sat in the opera boxes. The orchestra and gallery seats were open to all and were filled largely with working…
Originally published in the Forverts, March 29, 1911 Funerals: Oceans of tears were spilled yesterday at the funerals of the victims of Saturday’s fire. Following each hearse were not only the closest relatives and friends of the dead but also hundreds of people that didn’t know them. And all of them were sobbing: those unacquainted…
Originally published in the Forverts, March 27, 1911 The entire neighborhood is sitting shiva. Every heart is torn in mourning. The human heart is drowning in tears. What a catastrophe! What a dark misfortune! The depth of the pain, the bitter ripping of the heart, for the first time the soul is overflowing such that…
Originally published in the Forverts, April 6, 1911 A black parade, a black day, a black sky and a black earth. Black rows of mourners walked through rain-soaked streets as black threatening clouds dragged through the air; it was as if the day had been custom-ordered for this singular soundless, deeply mournful funeral march. Never…
Originally published in the Forverts, April 1, 1911 Another Two Burned Victims Are Identified The Building Department became aware yesterday that the “Triangle” factory bosses have opened a new shop at 5-9 University Place, which is just as dangerous as their prior factory. The structure it’s located in is six floors high and is not…
Originally published in the Forverts on March 27, 1911 How They Leaped To Their Deaths It took half an hour for it all to end. On the street below, on sidewalks, and in surrounding cellars, bodies lay crushed, clothes torn and blood-stained. And above, on the three highest floors of the “fireproof” factory building, a…
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