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Fire wipes out family of seven in New Jersey home
Cape May November 27 a family of Lewis Wilson an Bethlehem Steel employee and six others perished in a Weat Cape May house fire. Six victims were Lewis Wilson wife Margaret Katherine Gibbon the grandmother Gertrude Thomas Tilian Beatrice with Beatrice as a two year old. Fire blamed on falling wood from a stove with all perishing in their beds and smoke suffocation. Neighbors Charles Jacquette and Arthur Wilson alerted authorities as flames erupted after smoke filled the house.
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