Seattle Daily Times (Washington)
15 January 1905
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DIE IN FIRE!
NEW YORK, Saturday, Jan. 14 -- The entire family of William T. Mason, a lawyer, with offices at 63 Wall Street, perished in a fire which completely destroyed his residence at 2 o'clock this morning. The bodies of Mr. Mason, his infant child and two servant girls who were sisters, Nellie and Annie Wells, have been recovered.
The bodies of Mrs. Mason and Marian, the only other child, three years old, were not recovered and were supposed to be completely incinerated in the rear room on the second floor, near the door of which Mr. Mason's charred body was found.