St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-26
A Paris Restaurant Wrecked
by a Bomb and the Pro-
prietor Killed.
The Restaurateup'S Wife Is
CraZed by the Shock and
Others Injured.
RaVachols Arrest Occurred in
the Establishment
Blown UP.
Today's Trial OF the Insolent
Dynamiter May Develop
Sensations.

PARIS, April 25.-The restaurant Of
NJ. Very, who on March 80 delivered
Rayachol, the anarchist. into the hands
of the police, was utterly wrecked at 4
o'clock tonight by bomb explosion.
Tne force of the explosion was terrific
and widely felt. and an enormous crowd
quickly gathered about the shattered
building.
The police. on entering, found NJ.
Very lying on the floor OF the restaurant
in the midst OF heaps Of debris, groanlng
with fright and pain. One of his legs
had been broken and he was sent 10 a
hospital, where the leg was amputated,
NJ. Very dying shortly after. A grand
daughter of NJ. Very was also injured,
and two ladies living in rooms over the
restaurant were badly shaken an
bruised. Very's wife was not injured,
but she has lost her senses owing TO the
severity of the shock she suffered and
is raving like maniac.
AT this hour Q0:30 a. m.) firemen are
clearing away the ruins. Fortunately
fined to the building in which Very's
restaurant was located. A detachment
Of troops is keeping clear the roadway
before the ruined cafe.
TO TerrOriZe Jurymen.
II is the general opinion that the eX-
pl0sion was perpetrated mainly TO ter
rorize the jurymen who will be on duty
at Ravachol's trial. The police have
theory that the bomb was thrown into
the basement of the building through
grating. A policeman who was
on duty just outside the restau-
rant when the explosion occurred
was thrown TO the pavement by the
shock. He stated that he saw nothing
suspicious. NJ. Loze, the project of
police; Nj. Goron, chief of the municipal
police, and M. Bayard, secretary OF the
ministry Of the interior, arrived on the
scene soon after the explosion.
A quantity OF goods lying exposed in
front of an adjoining shop was de-
stroyed. Three persons have been ar
rested OH suspicion of being implicated
In the murderous affair. One of them
shouted "Vlve Panarchie" on being
taken into custody.
The news of the explosion quickly
spread throughout the city, creating
CONSERVATION, especially on the boule-
wards, where exaggerated reports OF the
affair we're current. Detachments of
police hurriedly formed a Gordon in the
Boulevard Magenta, on which, at the
corner of Rue Lancry, Very'S restaurant
is located.
Expecting the Worst.
In this city and in st. Etienne re-
newed arrests Of anarchists are taking
place. Stringent precautions are being
taken at the palals de justice to prevent
any manifestation being made tomor-
row by the anarchists during the trial
of Ravachol. Few applications are be-
ing made tor seats, as the people are
fearful of dynamite outrageS being per-
petrated in tho court room, and deem 1t
safer TO remain away while the pro-
ceedings are going on. 1t has been de-
cided by the authorities that the trial
will last only one day. even if 1t is
found necessary for the court to sit all
night to finish the case.
1t is not known what course the anar-
chiSts will pursue, but it is feared that
some of them may in some way gain
admission to the court room, and throw
a. -
have been perpetrated in spite of all
the precautions of the police, that the
public IS willing TO believe that the
anarchists will try any scheme, no mat
ter how desperate, to prevent Ravach0l
from being punished. 1t Is certain that
none of the judges is at all anxious to
preside at the trial, as the anarchists
have threatened vengeance against the
Judge who sentences him.
The Eclair today publishes letter,
signed by a number of Ravachol's
friends, addressed to the jurors who
will sit in the case. The letter appeals
to the jurors to observe impartial fair
ness, and declares that Ravachol's acts
of vengeance were justified by the
criminal attitude of Judge Renolt and
Public Prosecutor Bullet at the trial of
| the Clichy anarchists. The Eclair also
| publishes the text of an anarchist proc
lamation which has been secretly
municipal elections, which will be held
Nav /. This is violent manifesto, adj
vocating neutrality IN the elections,
which are denounced as bourgeois
| farce.
Twelve Pounds of Dynamite.
The bomb contained Mt least twelve
| pounds of dynamite and completely
| wrecked the establishment. The eX-
| plosion occurred when the wine shop
was half full of guests, and as nearly
| as can be learned the bomb was placed
| just within the outside door of the cor
ridor and at the door leading from the
! corridor into the wine room. NJ. Very
was standing in the middle of the room
when the shock came. He was thrown
| M no in n hno nf n
| tables and chairs. The ceiling fell and
| several beams were split and fell to the
| floor.
| NJ. Very was in a pitiable condition.
Both of his legs had been crushed by
the falling beams, his collar bone tract
ured and right arm broken. His little
| boy was found unconscious In corner
with his collar bone broken. OF the
| other ten persons injured three were
taken to the hospital and the others
were helped to their homes by the po-
lice. Six of them are said to have
| boues broken and internal injuries.
Blown 10 Splinters.
Half of the front of the wine shop was
| blown out, the stairs of the lower two
! stories were smashed to splinters, and
not door or a window in the house was
! left whole. The floor i'll the corridor
was blown away. The chandelier was
twisted and hurled into corner. and
where the ceiling and walls were split,
the plaster was taken off as if scraped
with knife. The buildings on each
side of the wine shop were damaged
from top to bottom. Half of the furni-
| ture was broken and all the glass shat
| tered. The whole block around the
wine shop was rocked by the explosion
and the walls were started SO that they
cracked or bulged. The neighborhood
is thickly populated, and five minutes