People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — Entire Family Perished. [ARTICLE]

Entire Family Perished.

New York, Nov. 7. —Fire started on the first floor of a tenement house, No. 311 Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, in which family of six persons lost their lives. They were: Charles Ryan, aged 49; Mrs. Ellen Ryan, aged 45; Johanna Ryan, aged 20; Sarah Ryan, aged 17; Maggie Ryan, aged 14; Lizzie Ryan, aged 12. The cause of the fire is unknown. The property loss is probably not large.