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Show CHILDREN DROWNED PORTLAND, Or., June 29. A special dispatch to the Telegram from Quincy, Or., gives . details of the accidental drowning In Beaver Slough, near Klats-kar.le Klats-kar.le yesterday afternoon of the three children of Thomas Basel of Quincy. The little ones, Eglund, aged 12, Annie, aged 8, and Ella, aged 6, left their home yesterday afternoon to go black-berrying. black-berrying. . They did not return home last evening even-ing and a search party was organized. Traces of the little party were found In the hills and finally thefr tracks leading down to Beaver Slough, where a boat was riding at anchor, were found, and a search of the water resulted In the finding of the bodies. Just how the little lit-tle oneB were drowned will never be known, but it is supposed that they crawled out onto the boom to which the boat was tied and fell into the slough. |