Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — Five Are Victims of Fire. [ARTICLE]

Five Are Victims of Fire.

Shortly after 2 o’clock a. m. five persons, a mother and her four children, were burned to death at Gwyn station, on the Wopsononock railroad, three miles north of Altoona, Pa. The hus band, Carl W. Burk, escaped with severe injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Mary C. Burk, 42 years old; Adam G. Burk, 16 years old; Mary E. Burk, 12 years old; Joanna Burk, 11 years old; Joseph Victor Burk, 8 years old.