The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-02
DONE BY DYNAMITE.
ANExpLos1oN M NEw YonK o1rY.
Two Dry Goods store. Badl, shattersd-Th.
Deed Supposed to Have Been Done at
the Instigatlon Of Discharged Em.
ployes-Four Men Arrested.

ployes-Four Men Arrested.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-The first crimina
use Of dynamite in this city has great,
excited tho people. The explosion tool
place at avery late hour last night Ono
or two morning papers made second edi
tions giving the news The explosion was
at Garry Brothers dry goods store, Grand
and Allen streets, and that section OF the
city was to-day crowded with people. Al
the time Of the explosion number Of
persons were passing the spot, but none Of
them were Injured. To-day Capt. Al
laire and squad oil officers guarded the
premises Of Garry Brothers and OF Bidley
Brothers, the window OF whose establish
ment was also shattered BY the explosion.
MEN ARRESTED.
Shortly after tho explosion four men
were found in the shadow Of Riverton
street station Of the elevated road. One
Of them, Charles Henry, laborer, who
said he lived at Williamsburg, was se-
verely cut on the head and face. The
others, William Triton, awaiter, James
DAILY, clerk, and James Lamb, painter,
were binding Henry's wounds. All were
arrested and remanded.
To-day a lad was arrested charged with
experimenting with dynamite at the cor.
ner OF Grand aud Essex streets, where he
succeeded in dislodgne portion Of the
street car track. He could not be con-.
nec:ed with the other explosion.
The bomb or cartridge used in last
nights explosion must have been placed
Immediately under the window frame OF
Garry Bros store, The window casing
and sash are entirely demolished.
FORCE OF TIE SHOCK.
The shock was felt several hundred feet.
A lamp on the shelf Of store 500 feet
away was thrown to the floor. Dishes in
a tenement house in the neighborhood
were ratified and the iron stanohions OF
the Elevated road near the store look as
though they had received violent blow.
There is no evidence that cartridge |
was applied to Ridley's store. Had it not
been for the heavy Elevated Railroad
structure which runs up Allen street be-
tween the two stores, However, q good |
part OF the west side oi Ridley's building |
would have suffered. Many Of Ridley's |
employees came to the spot and guarded
the premises. The damages amount to
SCI, COO.
OUTCOME OF A STRIKE.
The police are satisfied the explosion
was the outcome OF the strike OF Garry
Brothers employees. Burk, former
clerk OF the firm, and who caused the
strike, was dismissed for failing one night
TO properly secure the doors Of the estab-
lishment. The Dry Goods Clerks Union,
OF which ho was a member, tried many
methods to secure his reinstatement. They
went SO far as to station men in the
vicinity and ask those intending pur-
chasing to boycott them. When the
strike was ordered by the Union
the firm was left without clerk.
Non-union men employed have been
threatened in various ways. Garry
Brothers also received threatening letters.
Committees from the several trades
unions have called upon the firm, hut the
brothers assured them they intended TO
run their own business. The persecution
OF the firm became so persistent that steps
for protection were taken, ard to this end
a private meeting OF the dry goods dealers
OF this city met. What action was taken
is not divulged, but II thought that the
organization OF the dealers made the
union men more desperate and impelled
them TO use dynamite.
FORMER TROUBLES.
The Union, or Equality Association was
formed year ago, when the employees OF
Grand street houses endeavored to induce
the proprietors to close at @ o'clock. Rid.
ley Sons was among the houses that re-
fused to close ut that hour. For some
time they were prosecuted, and last June
u huge stone shattered one Of their plate
glass show windows. The perpetrator
was never discovered
Thomas Garry, OF Garry Brothers, said:
"0f'course tho Equality is at the bottom
OF this outrage. What surprises me is
that they have done nothing worse. They
made threats OF all kinds, but We were in
clined to look for their execution upon
our clerks"
T. J. Naughton, delegate of the
Equality Association, denies all knowl-
edge OF the affair and claims that the out
rage was not caused by member Of the
organization, although he said it might
have been done on individual responsi.
bility. He thought Garry's own agents
caused the explosion.
The men arrested on suspicion OF com.
plicity in the explosion strongly deny oil
knowledge OF it.