Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-10


mutilated remains were found in the hall
way outside CT Mr.. Sage's office.
Missiiig-F. j. Menze, aged 25 years,
typewriter and stenographer to Mr.. Sage;
said to have been blown up by the explo-
sion; may be one Of the unknown dead.
The following injured were taken to the
hospital.
Frank Robertson, 90 years old, living at
Bergen Point and employed as a clerk for
lmbre y Co, brokers. lie was In Mr..
Sagc's office at the time of the explosion.
His skull was fractured and he will proba-
bly, die.
Charles W. Osborn, Russell sage's
cashier, LOG Berkeley Place, brooklyn,
fractured skull, He Will probably die.
Samuel ]. Calhoun, clerk, Of 100 Deane
street, iirooklyn, lacerated wound of head,
Mr.. William H. l.aidlaw, who was in the
building at the time, received fracture of
the leg, lie was taken to IT. Vincents
Hospital.
Col. j. J. Slocum, a brothcr-in-law of
MT. sage. and his chief clerk, was badly
cut about the head and face, and when his
wounds were dressed returned to the scene
declaring he had left the door of the safe
open and was fearful that the securities in
ii had been blown out and lost. Quickly
gathering together what he found, he
placed them in II small safe and had ii re-
moved to the office Of the Manhattan
Railroad Company, in the same building.
WILSON KNOWN AT ALBANY.
ALBANY, N. Y.-Dec. 1.-The dynamite
thrower is thought TO be Hiram ID. Wilson.
aged 10, an escaped lunatic and native of
Glenn Falls, Warren county. Wilson had
escaped previously from Middleton and
Utica asylums. He WAS very strong and
OF light complexion. The first signs OF
insanity were developed IA years ago,
when he kept the Bolton House on Lake
George. Then he led horses into the hotel,
AMI, mounting table, delivered an adj
dress to them lie was OF late years talk
ing OF making horses go faster than any
have ever goue, and oe patent rights. At
one time he took the shoes off horses
hoofs and put them on his own feet. and
then he led the horse over some of the
mountainous country of the Adirondacks.
Wilson, after short terms i'll insane asy-
lums, had been discharged as cured or
escaped. He had generally celebrated his
freedom by making attempts to kill scme
one who refused to meet his demands for
money. Several years ago he attempted to
kill q man whom he had asked for money
10 set him up in business. On another
OCCASION when W. !. Arkell was in
Albany, Wilson made a demand on him.
When he refused his demand Wilson
threatened to kill Mr.. Arkell, and even
attempted TO assault him in his office. lie
had also threatened the life Of Goodwin
Brown, one of the state lunacy commits
sioncrs. 1t was the loss OF money which
made him crazy. Wilson was arrested
here about q year ago for threatening to
kill some one.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 5.--At 10 o'clock this
morning Mr.. Osborne chief clerk of Rus
sell Sage, said that arrangements had been
made for temporary transaction Of the
business of Mr. SAges office at the office of
Caldwell & Bunker, brokers, on the second
liour of No. "a broadway. MIR. Osborne
had force Of young men at work over
hauling great pile OF rubbish, picking out
valuable papers which the explosion had
scattered all over the premises.
The 100 shares of C. B. & Q. stock which
Mr.. Sage's clerk was about handing to
Clerk Robinson in exchange for $1,000
certificate, when the shock came, were
found at an early hour this morning, but
the check had not turned up. Mr.. Osborne
said he was looking for permanent Office
but had not yet found suitable place.
AT Messrs. Caldwell Il Bunker's office it
was said that Mr.. Sage's name had been
transferred to their tape and that all in
| quirers should be directed there for the
| present. Mr.. Osborne, they said, was
| formerly attached to that office and OH
that account, as wcfl as u disposition TO
extend all possible courtesy and aid to Mr..
Sage, they were glad to give their facilities
| for the use of the firm.
| The men who were injured by the ex-
| plosion at No, II Broadway yerterday
were mostly doing well this morning,
Washington Il. Conner was seen at his
new office, No. 70 broadway. He said !;
| II called on Mr.. Sage this morning. at his
house. and found him looking quite bright
and cheerful. lie will be all right again
| in few days. | think
There is no truth in the rtmor that any
| bonds were lost by either Mr.. Sage or my
self. What papers were scattered on the
| floor were picked up again and are all
right. We wont lose u dollar save by the
destruction Of the office furniture.
| 1t is now believed To be an undisputed
| fact that only two people were killed, the
| bomb-thrower and d. +. Norton, Sage's
| private secretary. 1t was said that frag-
ments of at least three bodies were found,
but this cannot be substantatcd, and no
one else is known TO be missing.
NEW York, Dec. 6.-Nlr Russell Sage
has been improving steadily since his re-
moval to his home on Friday after the
bomb explosion at No. Il broadway, He
Ind taken his meals regularly and slept
well, but he had not left his room.
| To-day lie complained for the first time
| of feeling very tired, the result of reaction
| probably from the nervous strain INSOFAR
able from such an experience as he had ON
Friday. He will not 60 down town to-
| morrow morning as he had anticipated.
| His physicians considers it more prudent
| for him TO have absolute rest for some days
to come. The bruises about his hands are
healing rapidly and his singed hair has
/ been trimmed so as to look as natural rs
before the explosion.
Several persons who have pretended to
| recognize the head of the bomb-thrower at
| they recognized it, have named various
men to whom they have said that 1t be-
| longed, and these men are all alive. In
| spector Byrnes inclinGs to put some faith
| i'll the recognition of it by Harry Horne,
| the dime museum lecturer, and has made
| 1t certain that, whether or not Horne knew
| the bomb-ihrower, he did know one W.
! u. Southworth whom he Describes us the
bomb-thrower's associate.
Southworth was arrested to-day, and it
turns out that all the anti-railroad senti-
| ments and AL the secret society business
which Horne ascribed on Saturday to the
owner of the head in the morgue are MIR.
Southworth's stock in trade as a crank.
Southworth admits knowing Horne and
talking secret society to him, but says he
never saw the owner of the head
1t turns ont. too, that Southworth has
been advertising for lecturers and that
| Souihworth has been imprisoned in San
Francisco, and, in short. his history is the
history that Horne attributed on Saturday
to the man whose head is in the margue;
so that if Southworth's head were in the
morgue the recognition might be more
valuable.
Southworth is an interesting crank. In
spcctor Byrnes wont tell where he found
him, but he had him at police head.
quarters to-day, and confronted him with
Horne. The men recognized each other,
and then statement was obtained from
them Neither was permitted to know
what the other had said