The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-05
A POINTED REDDISH BEARD

gave the appearance Of an educated man. which
was enhanced by brown eurls of hair and a
heavy smoustache that adorned the upper lip.
w hen the body was taken up 1t was found to be
torn into shreds by the explosion. ah y :
The interior OF the Offices plainly showed the
force OF the explosion was something terrific
All the partition walls were blown down and
the sash and window frames forced outward
thh ceiling had been blown down and the floor
forced downward, rendering IL unsafe to walk
upon. Desks and chairs were overturned and
plleo INTO an lnd1Scriminate mass, and every
piece OF glass in the big air shaft that RIM "a
the roof W IS shivered,
Search quickly showed the body of the man
with pointed beard was the only one amono
the debris In the meantime the crowds in the
street grew larger, elevated trains from up town
bringing thousands to the scene all impelled nv
curiosity. For an hour confusion reigned, then
tho police found their heads and something like
correct list of the killed and injured was had
But one person was killed outright, the man
with pointed beard. He is supposed to be- II
d. Wilson, the man that made the demand for
money from Sage and threw the bomb. Benia-
min E. Morton vino was thrown through the
window, clerk in the office, was removed to
the Chambers street hospital, where he died at
The following injured were taken to the hos
pital:
Frank Robertson, twenty years old, clerk for
lmbre q Co., brokers; he was in Sage's office
at the time Of the explosion skull fractured and
he will probably die.
Charles w. Osborn (Rassell Sage's cashier) (:
fractured skull will probably die
Samuel Calhoun, who was in the building at
the time, received 3 fractured leg
Colonel j. j. Slocum, brother-in-law of
Sage, and his chief clerk, was badly cut about
the head and face and when his wounds were
dressed he turned to the scsne decI.ring 70
left the door of the safe open and was fearful
the securities In it had been blown out and lost
Quickly, gathering together what he found, he
placed them In a small safe an had il removed
to the office OF the Manhattan railway comnanv
in the same building.
In the afternoon the hremen found among tbs
debris leg, thought to be that Of a woman
Whether IL is or not has not been discovered.
SAGE NEVER EMPLOYED A WOMAN TYPE
WRITER
and as this fact is we'll established, the sumo.
sition is, that II the leg is that of woman it is
all that Is left of one OF his put and CALI Gus
toners, who was in the Office at the time
Charles James, railroad man and resident
OF Chattanooga, Tenn, had an appointment
with Sage at u o'clock and had an experience
Will never forget. He says: II called at Sage 4
Office at IL o'clock and found him out seat
was offered me In the main office near the desl,
took 1t aud waited for Sages return. Sitting
on bench near the wall. noticed man per
haps feet eight inches in height He wore a
plug hat and had pointed beard and heavy
brown muStache. At about 12:15 Sage came in
and greeting me asked me into his private
office. Sage had just removed his hat and
asked me TO be seated when his clerk entered
and said something to him L did not hear.
Turning to me- he said. Excuse me moment
and passed through the door into the main
office. The door closed behind him. and
pushed my chair over to the wall, facing tho
door through which Sage had gone. 1t might
have been two or three minutes when the ex-
plosion came.
TWAS BLOWN NEARLY TO THE CEILING
and the chair on which sat was smashed to
pieces. fell down all in a heap. Dust and
small particles OF plaster and smoke filed the
room. l was completely dazed and did not
know what to do. L remember making nv way
through the passage from which the explosion
had blown the door into the main office There
| met Sage, blood dripping down his face and
hands, his clothes torn and rent and covered
with dirt and dust. When he saw me he said /:
How shall we get out? Wait l replied, 'un-
til this dust settles and think we Will be all
right, as the worst must be over. Then / re-
covered my senses and taking him by the arm
led him down the stairway into the street
Among the debris in the wrecked Offices were
found the remains Of silk hat, evidently worn
by the man who gave the name OF Wilson. and
IN one corner of Sage's private Office where
James was sitting alone at the time of the ex-
ploSlon occurred mans hand was found
washington E. Conner was in his office on the
broadway front of the building and on the same
moor with Sage when the explosion came. Con-
ner was out OF the building among the first and
assisted Sage to the drug store. The coroner
made an examination OF the
MANGLED REMAINS OF THE MAN
found in Sage's Office and from the mangled
mass of flesh and clothing took a seveu-cham-
Der bulldog revolver. This was all that could be
found by which identi ncation could be made
What was left of the body was laid out in the
undertaker's Office, on Greenwich street. A
head was there blackened, but neither cut nor
disngured in any way. 1t was cut of at the top
OF the neck and looked for all the world like
the mask OF man thirty-nve or forty years
old, with full beard that might have been
long, but was now burned close to the chin and
cheek. Then there was leg, the right, the
proper was gone, Of neither chest nor abdomen
WINS trace found. Shreds OF clothing were
found, showing the man had worn trousers of a
blue-black plaid, a black oyercoat and long
black stockings. That might have started the
story OF the woman's leg found.S He had been