Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1882-05-09
The Internal Machines.
nov THE EXPLOSIVE PACKAGES SENT TO
VANDERBILT AND FIELD WE'RE
CONSTRUCTED,
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CONSTRUCTED.
Especial Die patch TO the Times.
NEW YoRK, April 3O,--'rhc police are
at work trying to discover who sent the
Internal machines to William II. Van
dcrbllt and Cyrus w. Field. Asnlcudy
related, two packages were sent through
the postollice yesterday addressed to
Vanderbilt and Field. They were placed
In bag and sent TO the uptown district.
On The way one Of them exploded, bad
" burning the letters In the bug. The
other package was tNken IN charge by
Postmaster Pearson, to whom the facts
were reported.
The Internal machine mcn were not
satisfied with paying their compliments
to Mcssrs. Field aud Vanderbilt, but in-
chded Superintendent Wulllug, of the
police force, IN their list. john A. Day
cnport, who l;cs four doors from SUI
pcrintcndcut Walling on East Nine
ieenlh street and who looks very much
like him, has found TINT this resemblance
IL likely TO prove dangerous. lie went
home about hall-pnst nine o'clock on
Saturday evening and left the outer door
Of the ycslibulc open, ny he had fOmd IT,,
but closed the inner door. shortly af-
ter he heard an explosion In the vesli-
bulc. fhe explosion WIS 80 loud that II
was heard In Second avenue, two hum
drcd and fifty feet distant. Tie opened
the door which he had just closed and
found parcel wrapped In u newspaper
blazing IN the vcstlbule aud setting fire
to the mat. Plenty Of water put Out the
lire aud dclugcd The parcel. Tho parcel
was found 10 consist Of cigar box. A
stout wire secured the whole, Al the
end Of the cigar box wns n small hole,
through which n fuse had evidently been
passed. The box had been placed In the
yestlbule Immediately after Mr.. Daven-
ports entrance. MIR. Davenport con-
cciying that this imitation Of hn Internal
machine, originated m the malnce Of the
mlschicyous boys Of the npghborhood,
thought little Of II until he read In the
mornings papers that superintendent
Wnlling's name hHd been found on the
box mailed to Cyrus W. Field. II then
occurred TO him that ne had been misa.
ken for the superintendent Of Police aud
that the Internal machine was Intended
fcr Mr.. Wallng.
Postmaster Pearson to-day found that
the explosive contained ln the Internal
machine scnl 10 Mr, Vanderbilt was gun
cotton, aud II Is inferred that the con.
tents Of the exploded flask designed foi
Mr.. Field were The same, The gun cot
ton Is very closely packed In the flask
that remains Intact. When closely
packed y san explosive Of four time.
the force % gunpowder; loose, ills muct
less violent In lts action than gnnp0W.
der,
This afternoon Postmaster Pearson
sent the exploded flask and the glns,
bulb TO Professor Il. Ogden Doreinus
the chemist Professor Dofcmus dls
covered NJ once thal the liquid conlalnet
IN the glass bulb and designed to lire IN,
gun-cotton was sulphurlc acid. Thi
made the workings Of the Internal ma
clear nt once. On top Of IN,
gun-cotion IN the TASKS wns some pow
dcred chlurate of potash mixed with nnt
sugar, flour or pulvcrizcd gunpowdrr
| A drop Of the acid FILLING into this mix
: turc would produce immediate rombus