Fire was the cry from the windows up high
I saw but I could not believe
Two girls on the ledge as they jumped from the edge
Into the arms of eternity
From his song “The Triangle Fire”; 146 workers were killed in a fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on this date in 1911, a disaster that would launch a national movement for safer working conditions.
I saw but I could not believe
Two girls on the ledge as they jumped from the edge
Into the arms of eternity
From his song “The Triangle Fire”; 146 workers were killed in a fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on this date in 1911, a disaster that would launch a national movement for safer working conditions.