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All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire

By   |   March 26, 1911

NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven deaths in the hospitals. The number injured in the hospital at this hour was twenty-five.

Deputy Police Commissioner Driscoll on leaving the scene for the night, said he believed all the bodies had been recovered.

Of the 136 bodies recovered, thirteen of those were men, and the rest women. Thirty-three bodies were burned beyond recognition.

The entire property loss, it is thought will not exceed $100,000.

(The death toll of the fire ultimately reached 146).