"Eyewitness at the Triangle"

Eyewitness account

By: William Gunn Shepherd

Date: March 27, 1911

Source: Shepherd, William Gunn. "Eyewitness at the Triangle." Milwaukee Journal, March 27, 1911. Available online at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/texts/stein_ootss/o... ; website home page: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu (accessed October 11, 2002).

About the Author: William Gunn Shepherd, a reporter for the United Press, was in Manhattan's Washington Square on March 25, 1911, when a devastating fire ripped through the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Shepherd found a nearby telephone and dictated the details of the tragedy to his editor, who telegraphed the story to the nation's newspapers.

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