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Show INHALES GAS TO END LIFE House Wrecked By Explosion Ex-plosion When Body Is Discovered Seattle, Wash , Oct. 26. Friend Hyde, until recently superintendent of a mining: company at Atlanta, Idaho, committed suicido last night by Inhaling In-haling gas Incidentally the two story frame in which he resided was wrecked wreck-ed and two neighbors wore seriously Injured by an explosion which occurred oc-curred when they entered Hyde's room. Hyde drove his wife and son from home two weeks ago and had boen living in the house with his two young daughtors. When the girls returned re-turned from school last night they found the house dark and the door locked. They called the two neighbors, neigh-bors, who forced an entrance. Opening Open-ing tho door of Hyde's room, they switched on tho electric light There was a terrific ?as explosion, which upset tho bed, throwing Hyde's body to the ceiling, knocked the men unconscious, un-conscious, blew out the side of the house, split the roof in two and set tho debris on fire. Firemen, ambulances and the coroner coro-ner were summoned and when the blaze was extinguished Kyde'B body was found in the wreckage. In his hand was a photograph of a beautiful beauti-ful young woman. oo |