People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1896 — THREE LIVES WERE LOST. [ARTICLE]
THREE LIVES WERE LOST.
All the Missing of the Burdett Fire Accounted For. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 19. —Three women were killed in the Burdett building fire Monday night. The dead are: MRS. CATHERINE KANE. MRS. MARGARET CARROI*L. MRS. JOHANNA DOYLE, Fifth avenue. There are now none missing and unaccounted for, and it is not believed that there are any more bodies in the ruins. The injured, in addition to those whose names have previously been given, are: Mrs. Lena Jarvis, arms and hands burned. Miss Mamip Redden, head burned. George Nixon, head cutter; head and hands burned. Miss Mary Kelly, badly burned on the hands and face and ears frozen. Benjamin Harris, electrician; overcome by the cold. The collections for relief already amount to over SSOO, and it is expected that this sum will be increased to - over $1 000. While the firemen were yet at work on the Burdette building they were summoned to fight flames in Apollo Hall, one of the land-marks of the city. The hall was soon destroyed, and the flames spread to premises on the ground floor, including two saloons and a restaurant. The loss will read $30,000.
