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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, March 25, 1911, New York, New York.

Good source material at Cornell's site.

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Important because it changed the way New York, and then the rest of the country, viewed labor.  Ushered in a whole slew of laws relating to fire safety measures and conditions in factories.

146 died:

  • Adler, Lizzie, 24
  • Altman, Anna, 16
  • Ardito, Annina, 25
  • Bassino, Rose, 31
  • Benanti, Vincenza, 22
  • Berger, Yetta, 18
  • Bernstein, Essie, 19
  • Bernstein, Jacob, 38
  • Bernstein, Morris, 19
  • Bierman, Gussie, 22
  • Billota, Vincenza, 16
  • Binowitz, Abraham, 30
  • Brenman, Rosie, 23
  • Brenman, Sarah, 17
  • Brodsky, Ida, 15
  • Brodsky, Sarah, 21
  • Brooks, Ada, 18
  • Brunetti, Laura, 17
  • Cammarata, Josephine, 17
  • Caputo, Francesca, 17
  • Carlisi, Josephine, 31
  • Caruso, Albina, 20
  • Ciminello, Annie, 36
  • Cirrito, Rosina, 18
  • Cohen, Anna, 25
  • Colletti, Annie, 30
  • Cooper, Sarah, 16
  • Cordiano , Michelina, 25
  • Dashefsky, Bessie, 25
  • Del Castillo, Josie, 21
  • Dockman, Clara, 19
  • Donick, Kalman, 24
  • Eisenberg, Celia, 17
  • Evans, Dora, 18
  • Feibisch, Rebecca, 20
  • Fichtenholtz, Yetta, 18
  • Fitze, Daisy Lopez, 26
  • Floresta, Mary, 26
  • Florin, Max, 23
  • Franco, Jenne, 16
  • Friedman, Rose, 18
  • Gerjuoy, Diana, 18
  • Gerstein, Molly, 17
  • Giannattasio, Catherine, 22
  • Gitlin, Celia, 17
  • Goldstein, Esther, 20
  • Goldstein, Lena, 22
  • Goldstein, Mary, 18
  • Goldstein, Yetta, 20
  • Grasso, Rosie, 16
  • Greb, Bertha, 25
  • Grossman, Rachel, 18
  • Herman, Mary, 40
  • Hochfeld, Esther, 21
  • Hollander, Fannie, 18
  • Horowitz, Pauline, 19
  • Jukofsky, Ida, 19
  • Kanowitz, Ida, 18
  • Kaplan, Tessie, 18
  • Kessler, Beckie, 19
  • Klein, Jacob, 23
  • Koppelman, Beckie, 16
  • Kula, Bertha, 19
  • Kupferschmidt, Tillie, 16
  • Kurtz, Benjamin, 19
  • L’Abbate, Annie, 16
  • Lansner, Fannie, 21
  • Lauletti, Maria Giuseppa, 33
  • Lederman, Jennie, 21
  • Lehrer, Max, 18
  • Lehrer, Sam, 19
  • Leone, Kate, 14
  • Leventhal, Mary, 22
  • Levin, Jennie, 19
  • Levine, Pauline, 19
  • Liebowitz, Nettie, 23
  • Liermark, Rose, 19
  • Maiale, Bettina, 18
  • Maiale, Frances, 21
  • Maltese, Catherine, 39
  • Maltese, Lucia, 20
  • Maltese, Rosaria, 14
  • Manaria, Maria, 27
  • Mankofsky, Rose, 22
  • Mehl, Rose, 15
  • Meyers, Yetta, 19
  • Midolo, Gaetana, 16
  • Miller, Annie, 16
  • Neubauer, Beckie, 19
  • Nicholas, Annie, 18
  • Nicolosi, Michelina, 21
  • Nussbaum, Sadie, 18
  • Oberstein, Julia, 19
  • Oringer, Rose, 19
  • Ostrovsky , Beckie, 20
  • Pack, Annie, 18
  • Panno, Provindenza, 43
  • Pasqualicchio, Antonietta, 16
  • Pearl, Ida, 20
  • Pildescu, Jennie, 18
  • Pinelli, Vincenza, 30
  • Prato, Emilia, 21
  • Prestifilippo, Concetta, 22
  • Reines, Beckie, 18
  • Rosen (Loeb), Louis, 33
  • Rosen, Fannie, 21
  • Rosen, Israel, 17
  • Rosen, Julia, 35
  • Rosenbaum, Yetta, 22
  • Rosenberg, Jennie, 21
  • Rosenfeld, Gussie, 22
  • Rosenthal, Nettie, 21
  • Rothstein, Emma, 22
  • Rotner, Theodore, 22
  • Sabasowitz, Sarah, 17
  • Salemi, Santina, 24
  • Saracino, Sarafina, 25
  • Saracino, Teresina, 20
  • Schiffman, Gussie, 18
  • Schmidt, Theresa, 32
  • Schneider, Ethel, 20
  • Schochet, Violet, 21
  • Schpunt, Golda, 19
  • Schwartz, Margaret, 24
  • Seltzer, Jacob, 33
  • Shapiro, Rosie, 17
  • Sklover, Ben, 25
  • Sorkin, Rose, 18
  • Starr, Annie, 30
  • Stein, Jennie, 18
  • Stellino, Jennie, 16
  • Stiglitz, Jennie, 22
  • Taback, Sam, 20
  • Terranova, Clotilde, 22
  • Tortorelli, Isabella, 17
  • Utal, Meyer, 23
  • Uzzo, Catherine, 22
  • Velakofsky, Frieda, 20
  • Viviano, Bessie, 15
  • Weiner, Rosie, 20
  • Weintraub, Sarah, 17
  • Weisner, Tessie, 21
  • Welfowitz, Dora, 21
  • Wendorff, Bertha, 18
  • Wilson, Joseph, 22
  • Wisotsky, Sonia, 17