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The Triangle fire: A blaze that woke a nation - CNN:

"'Three stories of a ten-floor building at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 young men and women -- at least 125 of them mere girls -- were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below.' -- The New York Times, March 26, 1911

Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Waist Co. fire, a blaze at a sweatshop in New York that shocked the nation and became a defining moment in the history of the American work force. Its death toll would reach 146 -- mostly young Italian and Jewish immigrants struggling to earn a living making blouses in a garment factory in Manhattan's Greenwich Village..."