Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-10

possible, but the head, which the police
report as having been severed from the
body, showed few marks of the explo-
sion. As the trunk and legs lay in a
net of rope brought by the fremen.
they looked like bundle of
ragged old clothes, ard were alb
solutely without human semblance.
The man wore a pointed
reddish beard. The face looked like
that of man of education. The po-
lice from time to time brought little
clots of blood from the office and laid
them carefully with the body. There
was blood on the wall close to the
door, through which the man had ap-
parently been blown. The remains
have been recognized as those of the
dynamiter.
Russell Sage, after the explosion,
CROPPED his way out of the passage.
His face and hands were dripping with
blood. He was almost unconscious.
Two men carried him down stairs and
across broadway to drug store. A
few minutes later Mr.. Slocum, his
brother-in-law, came rushing down
stairs. His hands were bleeding and
there was cash on one side of his
head. He was also carried to the drug
store. Il
Mr.. Sage's clerks. with ringing ears
and bleeding faces, deafened, blind and
weak, covered with dust and blood,
staggered out into the hall and fell,
rather than walked down the stairs
They were cared for at the drug store,
as were others who were injured.
At o'clock closed carriage drove
up to the drug store. Russell Sage, &C.
compaied by two friends, got into it
and drove away. He refused to speak
OF the accident, but one of the gentle
men said: MIR. Sage's injuries are not
serious" Mr., Sage walked to the car
riage without assistance. His hands
were bandaged. He had his high hat
stained. it wore no bandageS.
telephone message later an
nounced that Mr.. Sage is probably
much worse hurt than was at first sup
posed. 1t was necessary to carry him
up the stairs to his door. No one is adj
mitted.
At 1:3O o'clock Coroner Schultze, who
had been notified by telephone, ar
rived on the scene of the explosion
He viewed the remains of the dead
gathered up in the net. A few moments
later he gave orders for their removal
The list of the dead and injured SO far
as now known is:
FL. w. Wilson, alias Lord, the thrower
of the bomb, frightfully mangled and
torn.
Il. F. Norton, of Far Rockaway. 80
years old: died in Chambers-street hos
pital.
Unknown man, head and fragments
of body picked up on floor and walls of
Russell Sage's office; supposed to be a
clerk to Mr.. Sage.
Unknown man, portions of whose
mutilated remains were found in the
hallway outside Mr.. Sage's Office.
MISSING.
r. J. Menzies, 25 years old, type
writer and stenographer to Russell
Sage, said to have been blown up by
the explosion, may be one of the un-
kown dead.
INJURED.
Russell Sage, millionaire broker ana
investor. bleeding from many cuts on
the head; partly conscious.
Col. J. ]. Slocum, gashed and cut
about the face, but not seriously; able
to walk away.
C. w. Osborn, cashier for Russell
Sage, cut, gashed aud bruised from
head to foot and probably internally
injured. Will probably die.
VIM. Lalor, Wall street broker; cut
about the face and head and bruised.
At the hospital suffering from shock
w. r. Laidlaw, at the hospital suf-
fering from many injuries.
Samuel C. Calhoun, telegraph opera
tor, badly bruised and dazed.
Frank Robertson, brokers' clerk,
badly lacerated and cut; may die.
Unconscious man, supposed to be
Samuel Bern, of Hiawatha, Kas.; iden-
tifcation assumed from documents
found in pocket.
The fragments of bodies were taken
to the morgue.