https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire answers your question pretty easily.
I don't think it addresses it at all, Alan; it simply points out that many people lost ther lives through fire hazards that could easily have been prevented - or so it's assumed - who ever truly knows? Seems it could have been a coming together of uncleared waste and an unlawful cigarette.
There is no special reference I can remember to children.
If you meant that life was lost, of course that's terrible, but adults count just as much as kids, from which you will see that I also have my doubts about the eternal "women and children first!" Why? I imagine it's a matter of pure conditioning. I see no reason for thinking men inferior to women, in the sense of the value of their individual life. Civilization seems to be full of all sorts of unexplained assumptions and beliefs. Is the life of a single child more important than of a single man who might well be father to a whole squadron of children needing his support? Of course, if it's a matter of self-determination, as in will I give my parachute to the woman beside me or keep it for myself, I'd imagine that could be decided by the relationship between the two: a wife, yes, but a stranger?
Rob