Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-29
DYNAMIIERS
Attempt to Assassinate q Paris
Public Prosecutors.
The Building Wrecked, but No
Lives Are Lost.

| Lives Are LOST.
About Dozen People More or Less In>
| jured-Houses for Squares In All Direc-
tions Rock as If by pin-
ion of u Leading Anarchist who 10 In~
terviewed by a Reporter.
PARIS. March 29.--There was a terri
BILE explosion of dynamite sunday after
noon at 80 Rue Clichy, the home Of M.
Boulot, the public prosecutor. The at
tempt was against his life, which has
been threatened repeatedly lately by
anarchists. The police say that at least
eight pounds of dynamite must have
been used.
| Like an Earthquake.
The effect of the explosion was inds-
scribable. Houses for an eighth Of o
mile ON every side Of 20 were
rocked as if by an earthquake. All
windows were shattered in the neigh
| borhood and walls of the strongest
| buildings in the immediate vicinity
were cracked and bulged. No. 80 Is q
| wreck.
The explosive, which is thought to
have been placed in the ground hallway,
blew the stairway to splinters, so that
the panic-stricken inmates had to be
helped down from the upper floors with
ladders. The furniture throughout the
house was thrown into heaps and against
walls so that not whole chair or table
remained The windows, frames and
all were blown out completely and
bricks were driven from place and
dropped to the street. The plastering
was stripped clean from all walls and
ceilings
Seven persons were injured by the ex-
plosion; four by being thrown from
chairs ON which they were sitting, and
three by falling debris. M. Boulot, who
lived on the fifth floor, is said to have
escaped without injury.
Much of the furniture at 80 Rue
Clichy was thrown by the force of the
explosion through the windows into the
street No, Al Rue Clichy was half
wrecked. The furniture was smashed,
the walls were started and the coping of
the roof fell to the street. Four of the
inmates were injured by falling plaster
and the violence Of the shock.
The fire department was summoned
and ladders were put up to the second
story windows where chemist stood
with his sick wife in his arms. She was
confined but four hours before the ex-
plosion. The firemen got her and her
husband and baby out first. Others
came down the fire-escapes to the Sec
ond floor and were taken by the firemen
to the street. Several were 30 severely
injured or so terrified that they were un-
able to descend and were fetched from
the third and fourth floors by firemen.
Three May Die.
The fire was extinguished shortly and
no lives were lost, although three may
die from the injuries received In the
wreck at the time of the explosion.
The crumbling Of the walls at SO and Al
has rendered one side of the street inn
passable and the police are guarding the
street before the houses to prevent tho
approach of he crowd.
The people Of the neighborhood were
panic-stricken.
1t is said that the police have no clew
to the identity of the perpetrators Of the
deed.
The Theory of the Police.
The theory that the anarchists have
been preparing the internal machines
and the bombs already discovered for
are convinced that they have begun a
war Of determination on all persous in
Office who have antagonized them SO as
to frighten magistrates out OF convict
ing their comrades apprehended In
crime.
Aurelien Scholl, who lives on the first
floor fat Of the building, opposite No.
80, says he wos smoking pipe at th
time of the explosion. He heard deaf.
ening report, and the house rocked like
boat. The next thing he knew he lay
in corner with the ruins Of the furni-
ture and chandelier around him.
AT first he thought the Church Of the
Sacred Heart at Montmartre had been
destroyed. He ran out and found the.
walls Of 80 crumbling and smoke issuing
from the windows. The stairways had
collapsed like piles Of dominoes, he says,
and there was a gap in the wall at the
doorway about fifteen feet square.
A leading anarchist interviewed by O
French reporter, on the condition that
his name should be withheld, expresses
the program Of his comrades thus:
"The anarchists, as they are showing,
have in their hands the means Of eecur-
ing immunity from the courts and pub
lie officials. These means consist In
holding personally responsible every
individual who assists in convicting
them. Magistrates are mortal and
amenable to fear.
ITO give them the necessary lessons
as in the case Of M. Benoit, 1t will be In
dispensable to blow up the house Of
every judge or public prosecutor who
has assisted recently in sending an an
archist to prison. After we have treated
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