The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-03
FATAL FLAMES AND SMOKE
SIX MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY
SUFFER DEATH.

Adolph Reich, Well-to-do Real Estate
/ Agent, His Wife and Four Children tho
victims-several Others Injured ana
Another M ember of the lI-Fated Family
May Die.
New York, Jan. 2.-Six members Of
one family were killed by flames and
smoke In fire that occurred to-day III
Jersey City. The dead are: Adolph
Reich, forty-two years DID, the father;
Emma Reich, forty-two years old, the
mother; Tillie Reich. twenty-five years
old; Ida Reich, fifteen years old; Albert
Reich, fourteen years old; Justis Reich.
ten years old. Several others were in
jured and it may be that another mem
Der Of the Inflated family may die He
ds the nineteen-y year-old son and his
body is covered with burns. John Con-
way, chief of the Jersey City fire de-
partment, was badly cut and burned
He fell through a burning floor. Henry
Reich, seventeen years old, managed to
make nis escape from the house, but re-
ceived bad bruises on the neck, face
and hands, but he is not seriously in
|
jured.
Adolph Reich's home was at 317 Ger
mania avenue in the Hudson City dis
trict Reich was a real estate agent
and was .well-to-do, living in a house
of three stories. 1t Is believed that the
fire broke out from a heater in the base
ment and 1t worked its way up to the
third floor, where the sleeping apart
ments of the family were located
Henry Reich said it was late when the
family retired, the evening having been
spent in entertaining New Years call
ers. EARLY in the morning he was
awakened by shouts. Running out into
the hall he saw the smoke and flames
in the lower hall. His father was there
and they managed to get out Of the
house together in their night clothes.
Young Reich then gave the alarm.
When he returned his father was not to
| be seen, but one Of his brothers, Sig
| mund, was there but badly burned. HE
| was taken to a neighboring house, where
| he said that some one had awakened
| him and that he had jumped through
| the binding smoke and flames down
| the staircase and out into the open
! air.
| Several engine companies responded
! promptly to the alarm and ten nlinutet
| later the fire was out, Then the search
Of he house with is ghastly results be
gan. The rays from the firemen' 4 Ian
terms disclosed three charred bodies
against the wall at the foot OF the
stairs. They were the bodies Of Adolph
Reich, hts daughter Tillie and Gustav
The father had fallen upon the daugh-
ter and his son was in his arms. They
were burned almost beyond recognitiops.
In the basement of the house the
4 searching party stumbled over some
thing at the foot of the stairs. The
lanterns showed a sfckening aspect.
Two corpses with arms entwined lay
| there They were the remains Of Ida
| and Albert. Portions Of the limbs had
been entirely burned away and the
| faces were horribly distorted. They
searched then for the mother. Her
body was found In the dining room.
| She was burned to death. AT dawn the
| bodies were rolled in blankets and sent
| to the morgue.
Newton, Mass, Jan. "A burning ac-
cident occurred at West Newton this
morning, which cost the life o.
Mrs Walter J. Fiske She was at work
in her kitchen when her dress took fire
from an oil stove. Enveloped in flames.