Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-05
PICKING UP THE DEAD AND HURT.
The Dynamitard Himself Horribly Mar
Glcd-A Long List of Nictlms

The Dynamitard Himself Horribly Man
Clcd-A Long List of Victims.
What was left by the explosion of the mad
mans body-at least it was so labelled and ac-
cepted by the police and coroner-was laid out
IN undertaken Duffy's establishment at 81
Greenwtch street II was not much The
head was there, blackened but neither cut
nor oisfgurec. It was cut off at the top of the
neck and looked for all the world like the
mask OF a man IS or 10 years old, with full
beard that might have been long but In now
burned close TO the chin. Then there was a
leg, The right; the left foot one hand and that
was ,u. Inc body proper was gone; Of neither
cnest nor abdomen was n trace found. The leg
that vas there was broken and twisted Such
shreos OF clothing were found showed that
the nan had worn trousers of a blue-black
plaid black overcoat and long black stock.
ings.
The Dynamiter Unidentified.
He had been careful to rid himself OF every
name had been written in the corner of his high
thing that might disclose his identity His
olack hat, but he had cut it out. There 0as q
hole in the lining where 1t had been. Crowds
came and went, looking at the face: but no enc
knew 1t. Later the coroner made an sxamina-
ton ana ordered the remains removed to the
morg lie. Russell Sage. after the explosion CROPPED
MS way out OF the passage. His face and hands
were dripping with blood He was almost I'M
conscious. Two men carried him down stairs
and cross broadway to drug store A few
minutes later Mr.. Slocum his brother-il-la
came rushing down stairs. His hands were
bleed ng and there was a cash on one side of
his bead. He was also carried to the store
MIR. Sage's clerks, with ringing ears and bleed
ing faces, deafened, blind and weak with ex-
citem ent and loss of blood staggered out into
the hall and fell, rather than walked, down the
stairs.
Tho Victims of the Explosion
LAt,r the bomb-thrower was partly identified
as one II. d. Wilson, alias Lord The list of
the dead and injured SO far as now known is
Dead-H. ID. Wilson, alias Lord; B F Norton
of Far Rockaway, 30 years old. died in Cham
ber's Street hospital unknown man head and
fragments of body picked up on floor and walls
OF Ru ssell Sages Office, black hair supposed IN
be clerk to Mr. Sage; unknown man. portions
OF whose mutilated remains were found in the
hallway outside of Mr.. Sage's office Missing
stenol.rapher to Russell Sage, said to have
been blown up by the explosion NAV be one
of the unknown dead.
Persons " no Were Injured
Rus sell Sage, many cuts the head; Col
onel j. j. SlocUm. gasned and cut about the face
hut not seriously able 10 walk away; c, w
Osborn, cashier for Russell Sage, cut gashetl
and bruised from head TO foot and probably in
terna ly injured, viii probably die: William
Labor Wall street broker. cut about the faoo
anu II siu ana bruised; w. TX. Laldlaw, at hos
pltal unerlng from many Injuries: Samuel @.
Calhoun. telegraph operator. badly bruised
and dazed; Frank Robertson. brokers' clerk
badly laceratcd and cut, may die. unconscious
man, supposed to be Samuel Bern, Of Hia-
watht, Kan, identification assumed from doc
umen5 found in pocket.
Created Tremendous Excitement.
b. 4. Norton who was employed as "A clerk
in Nj. Sage's office, was blown through the
windt w and into the street. He was taken to
ospital, where he died without regainIng
consci BUSINESS Outside an enormous crowd
beleagured the building. The rumors had
spread like wtldfire through town that a boiler
explos ion had wrecked the building In which
the elevated railroad Offices are People
rushel from their Offices all along Broadway
and Wall street and ran bareheaded into the
street to learn what disaster bad happened