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Show I MANIAC RIME. HOME .CAUSING DEATH OF THREE Oregon Farmer Blows Up His Own Home, Killing His Wife, Daughter Daugh-ter and Himself. Oregon City, Ore. In a fit of insanity, insan-ity, Bert Garrett placed a charge of dynamite 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 injured. in-jured. The tragedy took place when Mrs. Garrett and her little daughter Beulah were inside preparing breakfast. 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 thai Barrett's body was blown twenty leet beyond the tree. Mrs. Garrett was so badly injured (hat she dieJ in an hour. The effect of the explosion was felt for a great distance. Garrett had acted strangely of late and had inquired the quickest means of self-destruction, but never intimated intimat-ed that he wanted to kill the members mem-bers of his family. |