Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — Eighteen Killed at a Fire. [ARTICLE]

Eighteen Killed at a Fire.

Fireworks and dynamite in the store of A. M. Ritenberg at Paterson, N. J., exploded with a report that blew out the front of the store and set fire to the tenement in which twelve families lived. Twelve bodies have been recovered and identified, and it is known that the bodies of six others are in the ruins. Besides the dead many persons were Injured.