People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — LOST THEIR LIVES. [ARTICLE]

LOST THEIR LIVES.

A Pennsylvania Man and His Wife Perish in Their Blazing Home. BEAVER FALLS, Pa., April 22.—Three dwellings were destroyed and two persons burned to death in a fire at 2 o’clock Friday morning. An explosion occurred in the building occupied by Julius Manthieu as a tin shop and dwelling. Both Manthieu and his wife were killed. It is believed that natural gas caused the first explosion and that a second explosion resulted from the flames reaching a tank of benzine in the cellar of the Manthieu dewelling. The property loss was about $10,000