Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-12-07

RUSSELL SAGE
sent their trunks. One of these was the
author of his carnival of blood and hor-
ror One OF the injured lived an hour
with mangltd face and crushed in skull,
aud two more hang on yet to the shred
of life in the city hospitals.
The Killed.
The dead are these:
Mimic, Frank :, stcnographer and
typewriter Tor Russell Sage. Missing.
Thought to have been blown to atoms.
Norton, Benjamin F.. age eighteen.
Far Ruckawav junior clerk and stenug-
rapher for Russell Sage; died at hali.past
one clock at Chambers Street Hospital,
Had fracture of base of skull. face torn
away and suffered internal injuries.
-, who exploded the bomb.
Head torn off and trunk dashed int o
fragments. Age apparently thirty-tive
to thirty eight. The head after death
looked like Guteau's.
Face to Face with the NIadman.
Swiiter than eagles flight was this
sudden swoop of death. The incidents
fairly piled upon each other, and horror
followed horror.
Russell Sage sat among the bits Of
stamped and puncturcd paper which go
to make up his fortune. He is very old +,
but he grips at these bits of paper as
frantically as if hunger were jogging him
on. One of the big dealers in the great
Wall street wheel of fortune. he was up
to his eyes in business at this hour of the
day.
Wilson entered as the clock struck the
first quarter A murdcrous madman in
disguise, with madman's cunning he
smiled upon Clerk Norton and said he
wished to see the operator. Bonds from
Mr.. Rockefeller to negotiate, he said, pre-
senting the card of Milson& & Hcrkenberg
bond negotlators, OF No. III Broad
way.
1t is fetching bait. The shrewd old
gamester bites and comes out from the
private office to negotiate. and finds
himself face to face with crafty maniac
armed with two pistols and bag o
dynamitt-armed with typewriter
letter of demand.
And Then
Only a million and a quarterl That
sum must be forthcoming or else
~ will blow you and your Office ant
all here-vcs, even mysrlt-to HE'LL" h,
said calmly, but with glittering eye.
4 Ia L., 4 l.
tore-retrcatcd to his hole, letting tn,
door with the spring shut to with {
bang.
And then there was beautiful burs
of flame and smoke and shattered glass
; and the contents OF that old gray ra
hole lcaped forth into the streets outsid
and over upon the mossy gravestones il
old Trinity's peaceful yard.
The story OF what followed this inser
safe act oi destruction and Of folly i
told in thrilling language. OF the mad
man there was found d ghastly head
with most OF the neck attached, a pai
of naked legs and a little else. Fran
Robertson, eye witness of the scene, wa
swept into the hallway an awful pictur
: of blood and laccration, stripped OF hi
: clothing, with one side of his face tor
away, one gouged out and the othe
full of splintercd glass, with fracture
skull and yet other injuries. There wa
a scuttllng of millionnaires, who though
their last day had come, Sage and til
younger Could, the frightened Morosin
who crept along the coping outside fror
window to window, and Washington
, Conner, expecting the old building t
fall and looking which way to jump.
HeadIong In o the street.
But there was one sight which hut
dreds saw and which they will carry
remembrance for many night. 1t wa
that of nude figure standing for an il
stant at an empty window frame, h
arm before his burned and shattered fac
? in an anguish too excruciating for d
scription. And then they 50 W that figur
topple out and plunge headlong into tt
wreck-strewn street below.
The hremen came, and then the poll,
and ambulances, and the crowd swellt
to storming army. The man! A my
terry still, though perhaps one easi
l.. solved. The motive? None! There
no motive in a madman.
But he had threatened Mr.. Sage befor
D. The old millionaire knew that DANCE
GUS lunatic was at large, but he toe
- the risk, as he had done before and othe
suffered for his selishness.
1t is said that considerable Of the mag
for which men slave away theirlives al
lose their reason was destroyed by t
explosion One "cal" for 100 shares
Z Cincinnati, Burlington and Quinc
held in the hand of Clerk Robinson, W
destroyed. With this proverbial luz
this will probably be a gain to Russ
Sage.
thirteen ThOuaau1 Caeee.