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Pipe* Freeze| Live* of Two: Stove BlownTo Pieces; Windows Break.Explosion of water coils in the range at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Parker at Fifteenth and Polk streetsj of this city Tuesday morning badly| damaged the house, shattered dishea in an adjoining room and endangered the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Parker, their infant son, Dee and Mrs. Robert Beatie, the latter of Beaver Creek, who was visiting at the home of her daugh ter.Mr. Parker had built a fire in the range and soon after entered the dining room while his wife was preparing breakfast A short time after the explosion took place. Tin* stove was blown to atoms, griddles going throughthe celling, and cooking utensils flat tened by coming in contact with the cealing and walls. The windows were literally blown from the kitchen and dining room. Dishes in the dining room were broken.The Parker home is a wreck, butMr. and Mrs, Parker consider themselves lucky in having saved theirlives as well as that of their babyand Mrs. Be a tie. —'Mrs. Parker, who was .Miss I^enora I Beatie before her marriage, is the Idaughter of Judge and Mrs. Robert [ Beatie and her husband is the son of j Mr. and Mrs. F. E Parker of Eleventh and Adams street, of this city. Both are we 14 known here.
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Oregon City Enterprise

Oregon City, Oregon, US

Fri, Dec 15, 1922

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