The Springdale news., 1888-12-14
CHICAGO DYNAMITERS.


 was stomparativeIy Light Tn, Pr,o.,e-
 tors Think it the Work Of the waislxv
 Trust.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-Shortly after six o'clock yesterday morainean attenDt was made to destroy the Shufeldt Companv,s dlstillery, in the northern portion of the city, by dynamite. Enough facts are not known to justify conclusion as to wheth. CT II Is the work of Anarchists or of some one Who has personal grievance against the Shuteldt's. At the hour mentioned the neIghborhood was shaken by a Ire. 1nendous explosion, shaking the building Tn the nelghborhood, breaking many panes Ill the surrounding houses and causino Peopie to rush Into the street i'll great alarm.
 AID investigation showed that a bomb had been thrown, probably from the street, into a detached warehouse used for storing highwines. This building was shattered, the hoops were burst off many or the casks, and the heads of some of them were driven in. Very soon after ward package wrapped in paper was discovered lying in the street It con- tanned several sticks of dynamite and some Illuminating caps. A fuse connect- ed with the packet showed evidence of haXlng been lighted, but had gone out pfematareiy. These articles are now in the possession of the police. who are al work on the case,
 \ Jagged hole about three feet square was torn in the roof, and ill various other ways the structure was damaged. An ex- animation revealed the fact that some person, evidently standing on the high sidewalk on Hawthorne street had thrown upon the low roof of the building a pack age of dynamite sticks, tied together and attached to fuse, which had been ignited. These sticks consist of compressed dvna- mite, wrapped in pasteboard and provided With illuminating caps. The combination had exploded, and it was only owing to a peculiar chance that the entire structure, as well Us the surrounding buildings. were not instantly =leveled. The aim of the man or men who committed the deed was evidently to hit the skylight on the roof, and the mark was missed by but few feet. Underneath the skxlight are eight large tubs or vats of ghly-inhammable hquor Had the dynamite sticks exploded on the skyh4ht the liquor would have been instantly ig- nited and I terrible explosion would have resuIted-an explosion, Captain Schaaek thinks, of sufficient violence to have torn down score ot buildings. As it was, the damage was comparatively small. \ lot of barrels of wines underneath the spot where the explosion occurred. had their hoops torn off but none of the contents was spilled. On the roof, about fifteen feet from the spot where the first explo- sion occurred, WIS found another bundle of dynamite sticks. seven in number. These had not exploded on account of some defect in the fuse, which had
  To ole was ia the building it the time. and no loss If life or limb was caused. James D. Lynch, one of the proprietors of the dis tillery. says he believes it to be the work of the Whisky Trust. We are not in the trust,9 he said, .aud that organization has on numerous occasions threatened to do Us up To show you the desperate character of the deed let me call your at tehtiOn to the fact that there are fifteen thousand barrels of whisky stored under the roof that was torn open. and if these had been ignitcd terrible fire would have been added to the horrors of the explo- sion. One of the representatives of the trust was here shortly after the explosion. but the feeling among the men against his organization was so great that he had to skip out for fear of belny violently utdlt N ItE
 There is no doubt in the world that it is the work of the trust. : said Mr. Lynch. They have been threatening Us with ven geahee for some time past and the other day we received word to look out for dam age. We supposed they meant to cut prices, and We told them to damage away. l never thought they would be guilty ot s.ch an act as this
 Was there any cause for the taking If such desperate measures by the Whisky Trust<p
 Well, I should say there was. Every oEe knows the war they have wagcd against Us without success. They haze tried to force Us into the trust. and they played their last card when they froze Us out of feeding cattle. When they saw that had no effect, they began to issue. vague threats, to which we paid no atteA- tion."
 Now, last week there came the news, that house was about completed ill St. Paul with d capacity of ten thousand bushels day, and only q short time be- fore another antitrust house of one thou sand bushels daily capacity was started in Pekin. III. Another house of several bushels in capacity in Danville renounced allegiance to the trust, and then the Ken. lucky distillers began changing their product from whiskies te highwines, which brought them into direct competi- tion with the trust and raised the anti trust capacity to seventeen thousand bushels day"
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