Allegheny County PA Archives-  Obituaries: Boyle, Landis, Walters, 08 Jan 1899

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from The Pittsburgh Press dated Monday, January 9, 1899 (page 5):
 
DEATH IN THE FIRE
 
It is now certainly known that but three persons lost their lives in
the fire which broke out in the Hotel Richelieu, Liberty avenue, at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. The following is a list of the dead:
 
Amos LANDIS, 28 years old, a glass worker of Grapeville,
 
George A WATERS, 28 years old, a huckster, of Philadelphia,
 
Kate BOYLE, 30 years old, a domestic at Stapleton's hotel, Penn avenue
near Twelfth street
 
(. . .)
 
LANDIS came to Pittsburg to join the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics. His body was taken to Grapeville last night by his
brother.
 
(. . .)
 
The register showed James Smith and wife as occupying Room No. 20, and
they have been identified as George A WATERS and Kate BOYLE. The man
(sic) was found sitting in a chair with her head resting on the bed.
The man was dead on the floor. His face was burned, but the woman
apparently died from suffocation. John BOYLE, of South Twenty-third
and Carson street, identified the remains of the woman as those of his
wife. He said he left her about a year ago on account of her
disinclination to stay at home. Her parents live in Beaver. One
child, 4 years old, is being cared for at a religious home. Mrs BOYLE
formerly worked for Mrs CLARK, Sheridan avenue and Station street, and
for a Mrs BOYLE on Station street, East End. WATERS was married and
leaves a widow. She lives on Chartiers street, Philadelphia. The
body will be shipped east at the expense of WATERS' father, who lives
at 451 Liberty street, Camden, N. J.
 
The fire is supposed to have been caused by a leakage of natural gas
in the linen room on the second floor of the hotel.
 
(. . .)
 
 
from the City of Pittsburgh Death Records:
 
Catherine BOYLE, aged about 33 years, married, domestic, died January
8, 1899, asphyxiated by smoke at a fire at the Hotel Richelieu;
daughter of John and Mary BYRNS, both of Ireland; born in Wales; lived
at Eleventh & Liberty Streets; burial in St Mary's Cemetery on January
12, 1899.
 
Amos S LANDIS, aged 28 years, single, laborer, died January 8, 1899,
suffocation by smoke and fire; son of Samuel LANDIS; born in
Westmoreland County; burial in Brush Creek Cemetery near Jeanette PA
on January 10, 1899.
 
George A WATERS, aged 28 years, married, huckster, died January 8,
1899, asphyxiated in burning building; son of Edward WATERS; burial in
a Camden NJ cemetery on January 10, 1899.