The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-16
WITH DYNAMITE
An AriStOcratic Cafe in 0Stend
is Wrecked.
Three People Killed and Sew
eral Injured

By the Plying Missiles, whieh Spread
Terror sad Dismay Among the Fash
iOnabIe ThPongs-No Clew, but 1t is
Believed to Be the Work of Anarchists.
Is the Kfng's Life in Dangers
BRUSSELS, Aug. 15.-Great excite
ment prevails in Ostend over dyna-
mite outrage that resulted in three per-
sons being fatally injured. Ostend is
the favorite resort for the Belgian aris-
tocracy The king of the BelgiAns has
a summer place there, and the visitors
30 the baths and other summer attrac-
tions include nobility from an parts of
Europe, and especially from Russia,
whose leading families make Ostend
their favoFite resort on the western
shores of Europe.
The o1d Kaiser Wilheln of Germany
also was o frequent visitor to OStend,
and although the present kaiser doesn't
follow his grandfathers example, many
noble German families still make Ostend
their summer habitation. AT present
Ostend Is thronged with visitors. One
of the most aristocratic resorts Is the
Cafe gu Prince Albert, called after the
late prince consort of England, and
much freQuented by English sojourners,
as well as by Russians and Germans.
Saturday. while a number of people
were in the cafe, a dynamite cartridge ex-
ploded under one of the windows The
force of the explosion was terrific. The
cafe was wrecked, the windows shat
tered, the tables broken and plates a~d
glasses smashed and hurled about the
room Several persons in the cafe were
wounded by the flying missiles, and
three were fatally injured
Tho I1yoc 10 hOTri 1,le
ever seen in Ostend. People came run
ming out from the cafe. their faces
streaming with blood, adding to the dis
may and terror of the fashionable throng
that had gathered at the sound of
the explosion
The police rushed in and found several
persons lying in the wreck with serious
wounds, one of them unconscious and
another almost dead, owing to the
copious f1o1. of blood from cash in his
temple The wounded were at once con-
veyed TO the hospital. or their stopping
places. and efforts were made to ascer-
tain who was guilty II the crime.
There wa very little left of the dyna-
mite cartriC se, but the police were able
to locate Were it had been placed. So
far, however, they are without any Ten-
able clew as TO the criminal
Two persons of suspicious appearance
arrived in Ostend from Paris IN the
early part of the week and were sha'-
owed by the police, who suspected them
of being thieves OF swindlers. They
paid their way, and Us they did nothing
10 Justify arrest they were not mOlested.
They are now missing.
It Is thought that perhaps they we're
anarchists and perpetrated the outrage
il revenge for the severe penalties re
Gently imposed on Belgian anarchists.
The OT7Tv9 c9r1cpI SI1ph ffiCTla
among the visitors at OsJend that a
number OF hem have given notice Of
their intention to go elsewhere, rs they
fear that this is but the beginning OF
series Of ouurases, aimed at the wealthy
class who frequent the resort.
The guard at the palace Of the king
has been increased and SerUuGl7 On t4e
fOrtitcatiOns have been directed TO be
specially vigllant in detecting and c.
tanning suspicious persons. The .Eo~al
Des Baius, If is said, mas applied far al
CLLlOllal protection.