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Show RECORD OF DISASTER. Father, Mother and Three Children Meet Death in Flames and Smoke. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 2. The most appalling ap-palling catastrophe that has visited Detroit since the burning of the Tildeu school a couple of years ago, took place about -o'clock this morning. A fire broke out in the grocery store of George J. Reis, 333 Orleans street, and, communicating to t -e dwelling house overhead, smothered to death Charles Reis, aged 22, and his brothers Josie and Eddie, aged 11 and 7 years. The two little children were found in bed, and the older boy was discovered by the firemen lying upon the floor before the window, as if he had attempted to make his escape by that egress. Tie father and mother were found locked in each other's arms at the foot of the stairs leading out into the yard. They j were burned to a crisp in endeavoring to reach the open air. Two other children Max, aged 13, and Tony, aged 12, and a hired girl, whose name could not be ascertained, escaped by jumping out of the window into the arms of the police and firemen. |