Frances Perkins

The accident happened on a Saturday.

I happened to have been visiting a friend in the park.

And we heard the engines and we heard the screams and rushed over where we could see where the trouble was.

We could see this building from Washington Square, and the people had just begun to jump.

This one, the window was too crowded and they would jump and they hit the sidewalk.

And the weight of the bodies was so great at the speed at which they were traveling that they broke through the net.

And every one of them was killed.

Everybody who jumped was killed.

It was a horrifying spectacle.