March 25 marks the 111th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which killed 146 mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant garment workers, mainly women, in just 18 minutes. Friday will ...

Workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory become trapped after a tossed match ignites an enormous fire. Exits are blocked, and several people jump out of the ninth and tenth-floor windows in ...

Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, a tragedy that killed 146 ... to their deaths rather than burn alive in the factory they were trapped in (the exit door was ...

March 25th marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in downtown Manhattan. The fire started in a scrap bin on the 8th floor of the factory building, claiming the lives ...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the top floors of the Asch building in Greenwich Village, was one of many shirtwaist factories operating in Manhattan at the time. This boom in industry ...

The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside ...

It uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archives to construct a gripping tale about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, which killed 146 workers in the ...

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What disastrous event does May Day commemorate? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, an industrial disaster in New York City in 1911 The Battle of the Viaduct, a deadly clash between striking ...

All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26 ... Bodies piled at doors in factory; 142 dead as result of New York fire NEW YORK, March 27, 1911 (UP) - Facing the ...