People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — SEVEN MEET A FIERY DEATH. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN MEET A FIERY DEATH.

Six of the Victims Are Children and One a Wife and Mother. New York, Feb. I.—During the early hours of yesterday two fires occurred in Hoboken, N. J., which resulted in the loss of seven lives. Many poor people were made homeless, and even had narrow escapes for their lives. The fires occurred in different parts of the city, and one of them at least is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The - first fire started in the three-story ' frame building at 410 Newark street. There a mother and five children lost *f their lives. At the other fire a little I girl was burned to death. The dead are Mrs. Nellie Schroeder, 40 Vears old, wife of Charles Schroeder, her children —Henry, 11 years old; Kate, 9; Maggie, 7; John, 3; Willie, 3 months, and Mabel Mangles. The second fire was at 153 to 159 Fourteenth street. It was there little Mfibel Mangles perished. Her sister Florence was seriously burned, but is expected to recover.