Emery County Progress | 1909-06-12 | Page 5 | Maniac Dynamites Home Causing Death of Three

CAUSING DEATH OF THREE oregon farmer blows up his own home II 11 ng H s W fe daugh ter and H myself oregon city ore in a fit of ity bert garrett placed a charge 0 under the kitchen of his house twenty miles from here and blew himself his wife and daughter aged 5 into eternity another daughter villa aged 16 years who was in the upper portion of the house was perhaps fatally in jurd the tragedy took place when mis garrett and her little daughter beulah were inside preparing break fast the little girl was instantly killed as was garrett who was blown thirty feet from the house against a tree almost tearing off his head the force of the explosion was so great that garrett s body was blown twenty teet belond the us so badly injured that she diel in a hour the effect of the explosion was felt for a great d stance garrett had acted strangely of late and had inquired the quickest means of self destruction but never intimate ed that he wanted to kill the mem bers of his family