Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-12-10
A LUNATIC's yoMB.
The Terrible Alternatve offered
Millionaire RusseaSsge.
Give Up Twelve Hunded Thousand
Dollars or Die-Fearfq Results of
an Explosion with Fol-
lowed the Dez3nd.

Give Up Twelve Hunded Thousand
Dollars or Die-Fearfp Results of
an Explosion with Fol-
lowed the Dezsnd.
New YORK, Dec. 5. "a terrific ex-
plosion occurred at 1925 o'clock YES
terday afternoon in ahe old Union
Trust building. at 90, b and rs Broad
| way. 1t is also know as the EAR
cade." 1t runs thragh to Trinity
place, and is used foregress from the
Rector-street Elevateerailroad station.
The noise and shock fas frightful, and
| caused panic in theentire lower part
of the city. It wasaused by a dyna.
mite bomb exploded d Russell Sage's
office. Mr.. Sage w badly hurt, but
will live. The mag who threw the
bomb, and one of Mr.. Sage's clerks
were killed. severabthers were killed,
and many persons wre injured.
The explosion Wis the work of a
6end. whether insate or not, is vet un-
known, who went 3 Russell Sage's Of
fee with the purpse of assassinating
him. The story iEhat at 1915 O'Clock
small, well-dresed man, apparently
about SIS years old carrying a leather
bag, called at Rusell Sage's Office, on
the second floor 4 II Broadway, and
asked for Mr.. Sag. He was told that
Mr.. Sage was bus and could not be
seen. The man PERSISTED and contin-
ued to talk in a bud tone. Mr.. Sage,
who was in an liner office, came out to
see what was he matter. He asked
the man what gas wanted. The man
said:
II demand aprivate interview with
you"
Mr.. Sage inquired with what he could
oblige.
The man 18th the satchel replied:
eve want" ie said, slowly and dis
tinctly, Isl ,2D, o00 We want it right
here and now
MIR. Sage shrted back, but instantly
recovering hi presence of mind, said it
was great deal of money, and that he
would have 10 think about it. He knew
that he asdealing with crank, and
was sparrisg for time. But subter-
fuges werein vain with this crank He
had no time to wait, and he said So
I'VE canpt wait. / told your clerk
our businss was urgent. The money
is wantednow. In this satchel I have
dynamiteS pounds of it. Unless you
hand ovefthe money, up she goes
Mr.. SAGE made one more attempt to
tempori1. He had not got the money,
he said;h visitor might come again.
At thAword the man made an angry
gestureand raising the satchel at arms
length ''You will not?" he said, ''then
here gses.''
An aplosion followed which almost
raised she roof from the building, and
Mr.. Sge was blown clear through the
doorvay of his private office. and
acrosAhe room. He landed in bank
of rubbish.
Thepersons in Mr.. Sage's office at
the ime of the explosion were: Mr..
Sagefhis brother-in-law, Col. Slocum;
c.. EsJames, of Nassau street: 3. T.
Norbn, of Ear Rocl1away, c. w. Os-
borE of Brooklyn. and Mr.. Menzies,
attaches of the office; Frank Robinson,
of Bergen Point, messenger boy and
thebomb thrower
When the explosion occurred there
wasa great rush of air from below.
TIN building rocked and shook and the
flosrs seemed to rise up. Everywhere
thS walls were cracked and big Jumps
ofplaster, loosened from the ceiling,
fel with crash.
The panic in the upper stories was
sGnething awful. People ran over and
tnmpled upon each other in their mad
hlste to get down the stairways. There
we're two elevators in operation, both
fled with passengers at the time. How
tey escaped death no one knows, for
de confusion was so great for hssf an
bur after the occurrence that no de-
Ais of the narrow escapes that many
aust have had could be obtained.
The scene in the wrecked Office of
Russell Sage after the explosion was
one of ruin and chaos. The large main
office has smaller Office ON each side.
The explosion apparently occurred in
the main Office, and expended its force
westward toward the larger of the
smaller Offices, and through it to the
offices of the elevated railway. In Mr..
Sage's main Office the furniture was
overturned and broken. The walls and
ceilings were barred of plaster in great
patches; the little closet built under
the wash basin was wrecked; broken
ink bottles and other Office implements
were scattered about, and valuable
papers were strewn over the floor.
The safe lay in the midst of the sag
ging floor, agape with documents en-
closed in stout MANILA envelopes.
The Office to the east, a small one.
was not SO seriously wrecked. The
plaster near the ceiling was knocked
off, and all the furniture was covered
with plaster. The Office to the west
was nearly as badly wrecked as the
main office. All the windows here, as
well as in the other two offices, were
broken, and the walls were in a large
part barred of plaster.
In the offices of the Manhattan Rail-
way Co. on the same floor with Mr..
Sage's office, but farther in the rear
toward Trinity place, the shock of the
explosion was about as severe as in the
front. Window panes were blown out,
walls and ceilings were cracked and
everything thrown into confusion.
In the Manhattan directors room,
which is in about the center of the
building, George Gould and several
other memb ers of the board are said to
have been holding an executive meet
ing. They were terribly frightened by
the noise. but none of them were hurt.
Across the hallway is an unoccupied
room full of books It looks out over
the well under the skylight. All its
windows were broken and part of the
furniture was overturned while the
floor was strewn with books and other
debris just to the east of the sky