Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1903 — MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURN [ARTICLE]

MOTHER AND CHILDREN BURN

Four Lives Are Lost in Fire at Plercefleld. N. Y. Malone, N. Y., special: Four persons were burned to death in the house of Julius King of Piercefleld, a pulp and paper manufacturing town in the Adirondacks. The fire had gained such headway before it was discovered that Mrs. M. J. McGovern, King’s eldest daughter, and her three children, who were sleeping on the floor, were not able to get out, and all were killed. King and his wife, with a few boarders on an upper floor, escaped by jumping out of the windows. One man was seriously burned.