[Maven]

Shades of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. The owner had locked all the exits to prevent employee pilferage. That plus inadequate fire escapes and fire equipment, killed 146, mostly young girls working as seamstresses.

My great-grandmother worked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. She left her employment when she got married - just a few months before the fire. She lost a lot of friends in it.

Maven

[AnAmericanMother]

OMG - that's awful. She must have felt badly - that eternal question, why is one spared and others lost?

(You realize that 100 years from now somebody will be saying the same thing to somebody who lost or nearly lost a relative on 9-11 - and the response will be the same.)

Did you know your g-grandmother? I only knew one of mine, she lived to age 97.