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Norrie's house was one or two west of that.

Without saying much of anything, we all went down the steps and just went toward the fire. It was just about that time that they began to jump. It was the most horrible sight. The firemen were in great confusion. Of course you couldn't get into fire lines. We didn't have any passes, naturally. The firemen appeared to be shouting to them not to jump. People were hanging out the windows by their hands. The firemen were getting up emergency nets. One by one the people would fall off. They couldn't hold on any longer - the grip gives way. Then there began to be panic jumping. People who had their clothes afire would jump. It was a most horrible spectacle. Even when they got the nets up, the nets didn't hold in a jump from that height. Most of the people jumped before the nets were up. There was no place to go. The fire was between them and any means of exit. There they were. They had gone to the window for air and they jumped. It's that awful choice that people talk of - what kind of a choice to make?

The testimony at the trial was, and I've always believed this to be true (and it was for this that the proprietors of the Triangle Factory went to prison), that the door to the one stairway was locked. The testimony