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The Quiet Tragedy of Two of the Rescued
Originally published in the Forverts, March 30, 1911 “I wanted to dash back in and warn my girlfriends, but the crush of people pushed me aside and I never saw them again — never saw them again!” Frantically, Miss Ray Cohen of 224 Delancey Street sobbed these words to the Forverts reporter. Miss Cohen worked…
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Two Letters on the Death of the Immolated Worker Girls
Originally published in the Forverts, April 2, 1911 Come home, my daughter, come back home A man has told us about America That the factories are not safe there That it’s dangerous to ride the iron-train. People live there on the fifth floor — what a fright! And a person’s life is not worth a…
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More Tragedies in the Darkened Homes
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…
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Our Ghastly Devastation
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…
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Metropolitan Opera House Packed With Protest Meeting About the Fire
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…
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Mourning the Triangle Fire Victims
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…
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The Blood of the Victims Calls to Us
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…
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The March of Tears
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…
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Building Department Takes Steps Against New Shop of Triangle Waist Co.
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…
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Blood-Chilling Details of Saturday’s Destruction
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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Nora Ephron Remembers It All, Even Her Brush With Christianity
Writer, producer and director Nora Ephron is responsible for titles that have become indisputably iconic in America’s cultural archive: “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” “You’ve Got Mail,” and “Julie & Julia,” to name just a few. Now, with a new book of essays, “I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections” (Knopf), which includes everything…
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