Wikipedia has what seems a pretty decent summary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which killed 146 workers, mostly women, mostly immigrants, who were employed on the upper floors of an industrial building in Greenwich Village and could not escape when a fire broke out. Here is a recent New York times piece on the work of Michael Hirsch, whose historical and genealogical research has identified the last six unidentified victims of the fire.
(Photo from the NYT story.)
