Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1905 — Fatal. Fire at Brooklyn. [ARTICLE]

Fatal. Fire at Brooklyn.

New York, Oct. 5. Three children ■were burned to death, their parents rescued and taken in a dying coiuib tion to St. Marys' hospital, five other tenants sent to hospitals suffering from burns and two firemen hurt in a fire in a four story fiat house in lteid avenue, Brooklyn, late at night. The dead are: Charles Donnelly, aged it; Robert Donnelly, aged 5; Katherine Donnelly, aged 12. Other Incidents of the fire were the birth of a child while the mother was being removed from the burning bidding, and an accident which wrecked Fire Chief Croker's automobile, and in which the chief narrowly escaped serious accident.