What started as a pleasant spring day in downtown New York 112 years ago quickly turned into a hellish scene as one of America's deadliest industrial disasters took hold, leaving 146 dead.On March 25, 1911, at 4.40pm a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village, which occupied that floor as well as the two levels above. The factory, which was one of the biggest shirtwaist or blouse-makers in America at the time, mainly employed immigrant female workers between the ages of 13 and 23 earning less than $1 a day.
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