The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-16
WORK OF 4 DYNAMITEGIR..
RUSSELL SAGE,S OFFICE SCENE
OfATERRl5lE DEED.


Satchel Drop and aTerritic Explosion
Follows-A Wild and Exciting Scene.
New YORK, Dec. AT 12:15 o'clock
this afternoon a poorly dressed man
carrying a brown satchel entered the
office Of Russell Sage at II and 73 Broad
way and demanded priva te interview
with Sage. W. r. Laidlaw, Sage's clerk,
told him that Sage was busy and could
not oe seen. The man persisted and
continued to talk in loud tone.
Sage, Who was in an inner office, came
ouS - see what was the matter. He
asked the man what was wanted. The
man said II demand a private interview
with you" Sage replied that it would
be impossible for him to see the man
then but he might possibly do so later
in the day The man continued to de-
mand a private interview then and
there.
SAGE ordered him to leave the office.
On mis- the man dropped the leather
bag md an explosion which shook the
entire block instantly followed. Sage
was thrown across the room and
stunned. Laidlaw who had turned
away and was standing near the two
was also thrown across the Office and
had one leg badly lacerated. The stran-
Ger vas thrown against the partition
wall and was so badly injured that he
has since died.
in Sage's Office at the time of the ex-
plosion we're Col. J. J. Slocum, F. Z.
Osborn, T. L. Men%ies and B. c. Nor.
ton. Norton was badly injured and
was taken in al ambulance to st. Vim
cents Hospital where be died. Pieces
ot several bodies were picked up on the
second Goor Of the building near the
scene o. the explosion and placed N a
Ere (,apartneat life saving net.
Rurors are rife as to the number CT
persoas killed, but IS far as call b.
learned only four are lost. One of the:
pieces of bodies picked up was deaG
with the face intact. 1t is that of a
voun :, man with brown hair growing
thic:Iy upon the head. AS both of the
Merzies and Osborn are missing, it is
supposed they compose a portion of the
tangled heap. Among the fragments
Of bodies found was leg which the po-
lice think was that of a woman.
The injured people were at once
moved to a drug store opposite and at
tendsd to. There it was found that
Sage's injuries were rot serious, but
very extensive and painful. Sage was
able to converse. He said the man with
TIE hand bag was a total stranger to
him. He insisted upon presenting Sage
with his caro-, but he declined to accept
it.
Sage was completely covered with
CRIME and dust and his clothing was
clown into tatters and his hands, face
and clothing were covered with blood.
Sage's injuries mainly consisted OF
cut upon the forehead. while his face
and hands were filled with small! cut rs
if ne had received volley OF gravel
stones from a shotgun.
Both fire and ambulance calls were
sent out and in few minutes after the
explosion the building was surrounded
by fire engines, ambulances and police
men. The news spread through Wall
street, and in fact all oyer down town,
and every street in the nelghborhood
was soon thronged with excited thous-
ands Of men. The widest order pre-
vailed and the number of killed and
wounded reported was soon upward OF
100.
Police Captain McLaurin immediate
ly took charge of the police arrange
ment and search for the dead and
wounded was begun. The three rooms,
and two adjoining, were a total wreck
The office chair and desk in Sage's Of
fee are the only articles unimpalred.
The windows on the Rector street side
of the building were blown out and
those on the other side chartered.
When the dynamiter entered Sage 5
Office ne handed the clerk card which
bore the name of II. D. Wilson. When
the police examined the wrecked office
there vas found just inside of the door
of the general office the trunk OF a man
in q state that rendered recognition
nearlS impossible, the head having been
severed from the body. The pointed
reddish beard gave the appearance OF
an educated man, which was enhanced
by b, yTn curls of hair and heavy nous
tache that adorned the upper lip. This
is the only person killed outright so far
as kncTn, and the body is supposed to
be thai Of the dynamlter.
Ben amin T. Norton, who was blown
through the window, a clerk 10 the Of
flee Of Sage, was removed to Chambers
Street HOSPITAL where he died while
under operation for fracture of the
skull.
The coroner made an examination OF
the maagled remains of the man found
in Sage's cffice, and from the mass OF
lleSh and clothing took seyen-cham-
Der bulldog revolver. This was all that
could ae found by which an identifica'
ton could be made. What was left by
the explosion Of the madman's body
at Least it was so labelled and accepted
bv the police and coroner-was laid out
in Undertaken Duffy's Office at SCREEN
which street. It was not much. Tne
head :ras there blackened, but neither
cut nor disfigUred in any way. 1t was
cut of at the top of the neck and look
ed for all the world like the mask of q
man 35 or 40 years old with full beard
that might have been long, but was
now burned close to the chin and cheek
Then there was leg, the right and left
foot, one hand, and that was all. The
body proper was gone, of neither chest
nor abdomen was there a trace found
rhe leg that was there was broken OF
twisted. Such shreds of coltning as
were found showed that the man had
worn trousers of a blue black plaid,
black overcoat and long black stockings
that might have started the story that
Woman's leg was found. He had been
careful to rid himself of everything that
might disclose his identity. His name
had been written in the corner of his
high black hat, but he had cut it out
with knife. There was a hole IN the
lining where it had been.
Crowds came and went, looking at the
face but no one knew it. When dark
ness came, the undertaken, tired OF the
sight, threw cloth over it AMI closed
his door
Russell Sage made the following
statement to Inspector Byrnes this at
ternoon: 81 came out of my Office, hay
lag been sent for, and | found there a