The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-12-05

sands of particles. A search quickly
showed that the body of the man with the
pointed beard was the Gully one among the
debris.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
In the meantime the crowds in the street
grew larger. the elevated trains from up
town bringing thousands to the scene, all
impelled by curiosity. For an hour con-
fusion reigned. Then the police found
their heads and something like a correct
list of the killed and injured was had. But
one person had been killed outright, the
man with the pointed beard. He is sup
posed to be III. d. Wilson, the man that
made the demand for money from Mr..
Sage. and the one who threw the bomb.
The other fatality was:
BENJAMIN +. MORTON, who was blown
through the window. clerk in the office of Mr..
sage; was removed 10 Chambers-street Hospital,
where he died at i p. NJ while under operation
for fracture of the skull.
The deceased was resident of Far Rock
away, l.. /.
The following Injured were taken to the
hospital
FRANK ROBERTSON, tweny years old, living
at Bergen Point, and employed clerk for
luluIc AZ OO, DfOheTs. lie was III sage OIllce aU
the time of the explosion. His skull fract-
ured and he will probably die.
CHARLES W. OSBORNE, Russell Sage's cash
Ter, NO. 1876 Berkley place, Brooklyn; fractured
SAMUEL j. CALHOUN, clerk, of No. 165
Deane street, Brooklyn; lacerated wounds on
WILLIAM r. LAIDLOw, who was in the
building at the time, received fracture of the
leg. He was taken TO St Vincent's Hospital.
COL. j. j. sLOCUM. a brother-ln-law of Mr..
Sage. and his chief clerk; badly cut about the
head and face.
When Colonel Slocum's wounds were
dressed he returned to the scene, declaring
he had left the doos of the safe open and
was fearful that the securities In it had
been blown out and lost. Quickly gather
ing together what he found he placed them
in a small safe and had it removed to the
office of the Manhattan Railway Company.
in the same building.
Late in the afternoon the firemen found
among the debris aleg which was thought
to be that of woman. Whether it is or
not has not been discovered. Mr.. Sage
never employed woman type writer. and
as this fact is we'll established the suppo-
sition is that if tho leg is that of q woman
it is all that is left of one of his put ana
calls" customers, who was in the Office at
the time.
REMNANTS OF THE MADMAN.
The coroner made an examination of the
mangIed remains of the man found in Mr..
Sages Office. and from the mangled mass of
flesh and clothing took q seven-chamber
bulldog" revolver This was all that
could be found by which an identification
could be made. What was left by the ex-
plOsion of the madman's body. at least it
was so labeled and accepted by police and
coroner was laid out in undertaken Duff's
Office at No. 81 Greenwich street. 1t was
not much. The head was there, blackened,
but neither cut nor disiigured 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-tive or forty
years old, with full beard, that
might have been long, but was now
burned close to chin and cheek. Then
there was a leg-the right-the left foot,
one hand, and that was all. The body
proper was gone; of neither chest nor b.
dOmen was a trace found. The leg that
was there was broken and twisted. Such
snreds of clothing as were found showed
the man had worn trousers of blue-black
plaid, o black CTSIcoat and long, black
stockings. That might have started the
story that wOman's leg was found. He
had been careful to rid himself of every
thing that might disclose his identity. His
name had been written in the corner of his
black hat. but he had cut il out with
knife. There was n hole IN the lining where
it had been. Crowds came and went. look
ing at the face, but no one knew it. When
darkness tell the undertaken, tired of the
sight threw q cloth over 1t and shut his
door.
Russell Sage saw the head of II. d. Will
son and identified it as belonging to the
man who had come TO his Office and de-
manded the money. Inspector Byrnes took
the ghastly, CORY head in a basket to Mr..
Sage's house, and together with Dr. Mum,
carried it to Mr.. Sages bedroom on the
second floor. The instant the m8gnate,
who was lying in bed, saw the c0untenance
he said: That's the head of the man."
The identification was complete. In
spector Byrnes sent the head to the morgue.
There is something peculiar" said In
spector Byrnes, lin relation to the dead
much possible. the horrible sight of the
ragged, bloody neck of the head from Mr..
Sage's sight, wrapped a piece of cloth
about the ghastly, part. This took
unpleasant interview with Mr.. Sage less
sckening. Now these eyes were just as
perfect III appearance as If the man were
actually alive and kicking. His head was
brown, and looked as if the owner had
in a pompadour. The head, strange to
say. was not defaeed in the least.
1t looks as if something had caught the
man just below the chin and nipped his
body Off the head. The latter was lay
ing on the threshold of the hall
leading to Mr.. Sage's private. office.
IN which were q number of cases
full of pigeon-holes. When 1 got to the
scene some men were scooping mp the rem
nants of the maniac's body in dust-pans.
1t was a nauseating, repulsive sight. The
Not far from where the body was dlscov-
cred was found the revolver and the handle
of an0fhar The first n0f da1naued -