Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — SEVEN DIE IN BUFFALO FIRE. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN DIE IN BUFFALO FIRE.

Owner Of the Building Arrested, PondInf an Investigation. Henry Pqaristein, bis wife, and five children, ranging in age from 1% tc 12 yeard, were burned to death Sunday morning in a fire that destroyed a two-, story frame building in Buffalo. N. Y. Jpseph Supowski, who owned the building, and Karl Brackl, his brother-in-law, have been arrested pending an investigation. Supowski carried an insurance of $9,000 on the bdllding and Its contents. The Pearlsteins and another family lived in rooms above the Bhoe store and were asleep when the fire started. Supowski (old the police to-day that he accidentally dropped a lamp. A few minutes after the fire - began there was a loud , explosion thatblew out the front of the store. The flames enveloped the building in a~ short time. The family living in the rear rooms barely escaped with their lives.