The evening world., 1891-12-04
WHAT EYE-WlTNESSES SAW.

on the Bomb-Thrower's Shoulder.
Mr. sage told Washington 4. Connor that a
demand was made upon him for 81 ,2OO,O 900
by person whom he did not know, with the
threat TINT II not complied with the contents
OF the bag which he carried would be ex-
pl0dcd and the building destroyed.
Mr. sage had been to the drug store and
identified the body or one OF the persons who
was taken out OF the building dead as the
man who threw the bumb.
Alfred Weston man who does business
/ with MIR. sage, was In sagc's ofllcc at the
time. lie says:
Mr.. Sage came out Of his private ONCE With
his hand resting on the mans shoulder and
conversiug with him. Neither appeared ex-
cited, and they were apparently on friendly
| TERMS
"The man wore a slOuched hat which
shaded his face. Then came the report, and
all was dark.
IL broke the window and got out that way.
Secretary McWiliams and his force OF
Elevated Railroad clerks came out through
the same window.
al did not hear the conversation between
Mr.. Sage and the bomb ;hrower."
Leo stern, who keeps the cigar stand In the
lower lobby Of the Arcade Building, talked
collectcdly OF the fatality lie says:
81 was behind my counter when, at about
l2.l5, there came n noise like a treme ndous
big cannon.
"The building shook and tremblel for min.
utes afterwards. At hrst l thought 1t was
tumbling down. Then the whole building
was filled with smoke and dust.
There was peculiar, sunocatlng odor In
the air and people started for the staircase.
~ ran, too, and bounded up the stairs to
the next loor. There found the plaster
down, and, looking In at the door OF the mid
die room OF the three occupied by Russell W.
Sage, all OF them fronting on Rector street, ]
saw II sickening sight.
ut luTulluTt was DTUhtH anu III ulSDTupT.
The room was filled with smoke, and dust lay
an inch thick on everything.
"Then as the smoke cleared n little, 1 saw
the trunk o! a man lying In the middle OF the
room.
There were fragments OF human body
scattered here, there everywhere.
There was leg, stripped OF clothing, in
one corner, and beyond in another corner
was human head,
"That head had been severed from the
trunk as smoothly as II 1t had been cut OF
with guillotine.
at was young face, smooth and boyish.
It's features were sharp. 1t had short, curl.
ing hair, combed up In front In the pompa.
dour style. There was blood spattered over
all the walls and the ceiling.
THE severed leg was also taken on as II
by a surgeon. did not know this poor fel-
low, nut l came away without looking
. further.
There was n hole six feet across in the
middle OF the floor, but the ceiling and walls
did not appear to be injured"
II. W. Nandcrpoel, a lawyer, with an of1lce
on the top floor, had Just entered by the
, Broadway door when the explosion occurred
, at shook the building and 1t trembed like
an aspen for several minutes. l knew it was
either dynamite or giant powder by the
smell, AID the danger being over, hurried
in. Everybody was rushing out with
, banched faces and wild eyes. The building
was filled with smoke and dust OF fallen
plaster and the air clinked with the noise OF
, broken window-slass
- met COL Slocum and Broker Lalor and
, two or three other men rushing out with
, blood streaming from their faces"
4 Cambridge Livingston, OF Livingston q
johnson, said
, "Mr. sage's five or six clerks were escaping
by way OF the windows on the Rector street
side. They clambered out OF the shattered
, windows and along the heavy cornlce to the
windows Of the ONCE OF Washington Z. con-
nor, In the Broadway corner OF that floor, and
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