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4:40
The cutters had finished their work and started to get ready for the next day. -
5:00
On the ninth floor, embers landed on piles of finished shirtwaist and cans of oil used to make the sewing machine run smoothly. -
4:46
The fire started but the reason why is because Most likely, a cutter flicked a hot ash or tossed a live cigarette butt into a scrap bin. -
4:48
Someone on the eight floor had pulled the fire alarm. -
4:50
The fire started to spread and caught the cloths and cut outs on the fire. -
4:52
The horse drawn vehicles of engine company 72 arrived from a firehouse six blocks away. -
4:54
Workers on the eighth floor rang furiously for the two passenger elevators. -
4:55
Those who could not board elevators rushed the stairway door. They caused a pileup, so that those in front could not open the door. whenever someone would try and open the door the crowd would pile up against the door. -
5:05
Other's headed for the elevators and stairway on the Washington Place side of the building. Forcing open the doors to the elevator shaft, they looked down and saw an elevator starting what would be its last trip from the eighth floor. -
5:15
The fire ended because the firemen hosed it all out but sadly out of the 500 people that came to work that day 146 people died. 16 men were identified and the rest were women or bodies and body parts listed as "unidentified".