Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Seven Perish in Fire. [ARTICLE]

Seven Perish in Fire.

Within full view of firemen and police, who were checked in their race to save lives by a freight train, seven persons burned to death at 3 o’clock Sunday morning at No. 9316 Marquette avenue, South Chicago, 111., and the remaining occupants of the house ar* so badly injured that few of them are expected to survive. The screams of the burning victims were heard for fully fifteen minutes, and those who did escape were forced to jump for safety.