The Denny Station Rampage

Apparently crazed with liquor, Eugene Fortier, a Frenchman about 40 years of age, today shot and killed his brother, M. Fortier, a grocery man, at Denny station, near Seattle, and then securing a horse and buggy, drove to a nearby lumber camp and killed the wife of the man he had just murdered. According to Eugenele Hagen, a young girl who witnessed the event, Eugene Fortier entered the store through a rear door and without warning fired a shot into his brother's back. Returning to the man he had just shot, the crazed Frenchman fired five more shots into his head, killing him. Jumping into a buggy, the mad man whipped up the horse and drove to a lumber camp where his sister-in-law was employed as a cook. A telephone message from the lumber camp late this afternoon states that Fortier shot his brother's wife three times, killing her instantly. After committing this second murder, Fortier plunged into the woods and has not yet been apprehended.