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was a very crowded factory. The aisles were very narrow. They were not straight and many bodies were discovered tripped up over the machines themselves because in their haste to get out, with no direct exit, they were overcome by smoke and fell right in the aisles. The aisles weren't straight and weren't wide enough to accommodate the people. There would be a little bottleneck where they fed into one point.

They tried to get to the elevators. The elevators held up pretty well. One of them held up until close to the end really and took out people after many other people had been burned and others were jumping. That was the test of that elevator operator. The other elevator burned or broke down early. The reports were that it hadn't been inspected for a good many months. There hadn't been any elevator inspector there. It broke down rather quickly.

The only other means of exit was one stairway. This was really a building with only one means of exit, except the elevators which in fire prevention language are never regarded as a reliable means of exit. They do serve, as a matter of fact, and they did in the case of the Triangle Fire, to spread the fire from one floor to another because they were open elevator shafts protected only by a grill. As soon as the fire was going well on the floor on which it