146 Girls Burned Alive in New York. America Let the Owners Walk Free.

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]146 young girls burned alive. The doors were locked from outside. [music] The owners walked free. It was 1911.

[00:00:08]Immigrant girls as young as 14 worked 12-hour shifts in a [music] New York factory. No breaks. No fresh air. No way out. Then fire broke out. The smoke came [music] fast. The screaming came faster.

[00:00:21]They ran for the doors. Locked. The owners locked them in to prevent stealing. Some tried the elevator. It melted. [music] Some ran to the roof.

[00:00:29]Too late. Some jumped from nine floors up. The sidewalk could [music] not save them. 146 dead in 18 minutes. The owners were arrested, put on trial, [music] found not guilty. They collected insurance money, opened a new factory, >> [music] >> and went home for dinner. These girls had names. They had mothers waiting at home. They had whole lives ahead of them. America forgot them in a week. But you just learned their story. Subscribe because someone has to remember them.