Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-09-25
BY A BURSTING BOMB.
-Four Killed and Many Injured
at Newark, N. ].
ONE BOYS BODY CLEFT IN TWAIN.

Tho Flying Debris swept the Crowd
Like yolley Of Grape aud Canister,
Moving Down and slangiing the Mui-
taude-Llst Of the Dead aud TDjursd.
NEWARK, N. j., Sept 10. by the burst
ing OF bomb at an Italian celebration at
Boyden and Nassau streets, Newark, last
night, four persons were killed aad about
thirty injured The dead are
Horace Buehman, thirty years Of age
John Carlin, twelve years old. OF Seventh
avenue
William Murray, ten years old. Of Seventh
avenue.
Michael o'Neil, ten years old. Of 10 Col
den street
The Injured.
Among those injured we're the following:
Gaetano Anzelone, painful iniurieA Aug
ust Bodwin, ten years cid, Of Seventh
avenue; leg broken. James Bowe, police
man; heel shattered. George Brown, six
teen years old, Of Is Stone street; right arm
shattered. Harry Burgesser. fourteen years
old, OF Seventh avenue, arm broken, Bran
dino Castala, painful injuries David Ches-
ney, seventeen years old, OF II Crittenden
street. groin injured Antonio Chietii,
Brooklyn musician, painful injuries.
Ruthenn Costa. forty five years old, OF
Drift street, injured in groin John
Costell, twelve years old. of 224
Central avenue, arm blown of
pasquale Detzero, thirty five years old, OF
Factory street. stomach and groin torn
Horace Dnchemin; painful injuries An
ME Duffy, thirteen years old. cut in the
head. Joseph Fennelly, fifteen years old;
struck by a screw in the face, Angelo
, Maria Fieda; painful injSAies Antonio
Franchi painful injuries. James Gala
CHER, II Stone street; skull and arm frac-
tured. Ornea Giffor, musioiaH, of this.
! city; arm and leg fractured. Max Thum,
thirteen years old. 70 Newark street; foot
torn of Fred W Wiese. twelve years
old; cut about the body
How It Happened.
Alphonso Ilerio, who Is known ia tho
Italian colony As King Alphonso, keeps a
saloon and boarding house at 81 Boyden
street. Yesterday was the feast OF st.
Rocco and Ilerlo had invited a number Of
his eounrymen to assemble at hia place
and enjoy the entertainment that he had
prepared in honor Of tho event. The fes-
tivities passed of smoothly until between
10 and II o'clock. BY this time between
1900 and 1900 persons we're in the imme
diate vicinity, Rockets and ltoman candles
and other small pyr0teohnics were dis
charged, and then an Italian placed Ia
position bomb
1t was copper tube two aud halt feet
long and nine inches in diameter, and wa
loaded with several pounds Of powder
The fuse was lighted, and few second
later came a terrific explosion.
Like Grape aud CsaisteE
More than a hundred persons wer,
thrown TO the ground and as many nor,
were flung back as II they had been struck
by catspult. The crowd waspelted with
deadly missiles, which tore through the
mass OF humanity like grape and canister
Captain Herman Boyer who was pres
ent with ten patrolmen was struck in tbs
back Of the neck with piece of the bomb
and nearly Frustrated. He recovered
quickly and directed his men 60 begin d
search for the dead and injured He ex-
amined the bomb and found that only =
small piece Of il remained The rest had
been shattered into thousand pieces.
Literally Cut ia HaIE
The boy Murray was picked up in the
gutter dead. He had been literally cut in
two by fragment OF the bomb The
boys body was removed Co the residence
Of his parents.
The O'Neill boy was found writhing in
agony in the street The right side Of his
face was blown Oh and his skull was
fractured He died shortly before mid
night Carlin was dsemboweiied Buch-
man was thrown violently against the
curbstone His skull was fractured and
he died in a few minutes Henry Burgess
ser was sitting on the top Of a six foot
post when the explosion came, and the
shock caused him to lose his hold He was
picked up with broken arm. There were
many affecting scenes. FOR the story Of the
calamity had spread quickly, and fathers
and mothers came from every direction in.
search or their children