Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-11
TORN BY DYNAMITE.
Narrow Escape from a Terri
 b1e Disaster.
MURDER0Us TENDS IN CHICAGO
An Almost Successful Attempt to Blow Up Big Distiliery-Had the Plan Car ried 1t Is Thought a Score of Buildings Would Have Been Wrecked.

CHICAGO, Dec 11.-There was tremen- dous explosion of dynamite yesterday morn ing at Shufeldt 6 Co.'S distillery, at Flaw thorne & Larabee streets in the northern portion of the city. A desperate attempt was made to destroy the buildings, and it was partly successful. It is question whether the explosion was the work of Anarchists or of some one who had a griev- ance against the distillery people.
 The neighborhood was shaken by the plosion, and people living in the vicinity were terribly alarmed. Laboring men hur- ried into the streets and stood about with blanched cheeks.
 An investigation brought out the fact that the explosion had occurred in store house for high wines at the distillery. There was great jagged hole in the roof; barrels of high wines had been knocked about pro- miscuously, while the floor was strewn with debris. Hoops were burst off of many casks and the heads of some were driven in.
 Some person, who had probably stood on the high sidewalk on the Hawthorne street front of the distillery, had thrown upon the low roof of the store house a package of dynamite sticks, tied together and attached to fuse which had been ignited. These sticks consisted of compressed dynamite, wrapped in pasteboard and provided with Illuminating caps The combination had ex- ploded, and it was only owing to peculiar chance that the entire structure, as well as the surrounding buildings, was not instantly leyeled.
 The aim of the man or men who com mitted the deed was evidently to hit the sky light on the roof, and the mark was missed by but a few feet. Underneath the skyiight are eight large tubs or vats of highly infan- | mable liquor. Had the dynamite sticks ex- ploded on the skylight the liquor would have | been ignited, and terrible explosion would have resulted-an explosion, Capt. Schaack thinks, of sufficient violence to have torn | down a score of buildings. As it was, the damage was comparatively small. | Soon after the explosion package wrapped
 in paper was discovered lying in the street.
 It contained several sticks of dynamite and ! six Illuminating caps. A fuse connected with ! the package showed evidence of having been | lighted, but had gone out prematurely. These articles are now in the possession of | the police who are at work on the case On the roof, about fifteen feet from the l spot where the first explosion occurred, was
 found another bundle of dynamite sticks 1 seven in number. These had not exploded
 on account of some defect in the fuse, whict
 had evidently been ignited, Fortunately nc
 one was in the building at the time of the ex plosion.
 | James D. Lynch, one of the proprietors oi
 the distillery, says he believes the explosion | to be the work of the whisky trust. 'We
 are not in the trust, The said, land that or
 ganization has on numerous occasions threat
 ened to do us up.'"
 People generally, however, believe that tn,
 Anarchists have got to work again and ar,
 taking their revenge