Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-02-06
DIE BY FIRE.
Seven Persons Perish in Flames
at Htboken, N. j.
Two DisastrouI Fires In One of Which a
Mother and Five Children Are Lost
Little Girl the Victim in
the Other.


visited by 40 disastrous fires between
1850 Satuday night and three o'clock
Sunday mjrning. Seven persons were
burned t5 death and 80 families were
made horeless. The Saturday night fire
started y the three-story frame build
ing at Al Newark street. Here six per-
sons los their lives. They were: Mrs.
Nellie Shroeder, 40 years old; Henry
Schroefr, II years old; Maggie Schroe-
der, Z yars old; Kate Schroeder, . years
old; JON Schroeder, years old; Willie
Schroeder, months old. The father of
the fyhily, Charles Schroeder, was in a
nenrTy saloon playing cards while his
wifeind children were dying.
A.near us can be determined the fire
STAYED in defective hue in Schaffer's
whelwright shop on the ground floor
of ithree-story frame building. Schaf-
feioccupled the second floor as living
atrtments. The front rooms on the
ttrd floor were occupied by Charles
Shroeder and his family, while James
ianchfield and family occupied the
boms in the rear. The Blanchtields first
discovered the fire, which had gained
much headway, and barely made their
escape by way of the roofs of adjoining
buildings. 1t was impossible to discover
the fate of the Schroeder family until
the fire had subsidized. When the police
entered the building little save the shell
remained, and they were obliged to ex-
ercise great care in climbing about the
place. They finally reached the top floor
and made their way into the front room.
Stretched across the bed, blackened
and charred, lay the mother, and clasped
tightly in her arms was the little baby.
Willie. Beside the mother and baby, in
the same bed, lay the charred bodies of
the girls, Maggie and Kate. 1t is likely
that they were suffocated in their sleep.
On mattress on the floor near the win
dow lay the body of the boy, John, but
the body of Henry, the oldest boy, was
nowhere to be seen. Upon further
search being made the boys body was
found under mass of debris in the hall,
burned almost to crisp. II is believed
that the boy WIS aroused during the
fire, and in his efforts to escape ra n into
the hall. There he was overcome bv
the smoke and his body was covered
with part of the roof which fell in at
at that point. The loss to tie building
and its contents will probably not ex-
ceed $4,000.
The second fire started at three o'clock
sunday morning in the five-story
double-decl tenement at 157 Four
teenth street, over mile from the scene
OF the first. In this fire three tenements.
Nos. 155, 1877 and 159, were entirely
wrecked and No. 153 was damaged bad
ly by water. One child was burned to
death on the fourth floor of No. 157. She |
was Mabel Mangles, eight years old.
This fire started from some unknown
cause in one of row of four cheaply
built double-deek tenements at Nos.
l53, 1856, 157 md 159. There were two
families on each floor and only three |
vacant apartments in all the buildings.
All the families were forced out in |
their night clothing, or with what little
covering they could grab in their hurry.
The family of Ferdinand Mangles oc-
'upied the fourth floor of 157. Mrs.
Mangles, with her four children.
started for the street, which they
with the exception of Mabel,
Who was suffocated. The body of the
child is probably buried beneath a mass
If debris in the cellar. The loss on the
buildings Nos. 1855, 157 and 150, which
we're completely wrecked, il between
$4,000 and $4,000. Not over half
lozen families in the three buildings
'arried any insurance, and their be-
OnglngS were worth $40 OO0