The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-07-28
BOMBS IN PITTSBURG
Anarchists Making Them in
Large Quantities.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A MILL.

Narrow Escape ofworlsmen at the Carne-
gle Works at goth Street in That City
More Of the Reds Under Arrest--36
BIore Warrants for Homestead Work
men Were Issued Yesterday.
PITTsBURe, July 2S-The police, to-day,
have come into possession of facts leading
them TO believe that bombs are now be
ing made in this city A merchant on
Smthfield street reports to the police that
within the past three days he has sold
unusually large quantities of small glass
tubes and other materials that are used
in the construction of the usual Anarchist
bomb
The merchants customers have been
mostly foreigners of repulsive appearance
and, he says, Russian Jews, having every
appearance of Anarchists.
A remarkable escape from almost Ger
tain death on the part of the 144 work
men in the forge department of the Car
negie Goth street mill has just been made
public, while the perpetrator of the fiend-
ish act is yet unknown.
An attempt was made Monday even
ing to blow up the boiler and engine de-
| partments of the lower Union mills at
Goth street. The engineer in charge of
the machinery had left his post but few
minutes The water man, whose duty it
| is to keep guard of the gates, fires and
water left his position to breathe the fresh
air on the outside of the building
| When he left his post the gas was burn
| ing under the boilers. When the water
man returned he noticed that there was
no fire under the boilers He threw a
piece of lighted waste into one of the
| CRATES. A slight explosion occurred.
The quick return of the water man
doubtless saved many lives. Five minutes
! delay on his part would have permitted an
accumulation of gas sufficient to blow the
building to atoms and the workmen to
eternity. Supt Dillon was seen this morn
| ing and confirms the report.
sensation in the Private Iams case
was brought out when members of tine
Randall Club announced that they would
take steps to have Lieut.. Col. Streator
expelled from the Randall Club.
Call Finster of Troy Hill, and August
| Turnopk of Allegheny, two supposed An
archists, were arrested by Detective Nc
Tighe yesterday afternoon. Shortly be-
| fore that hour the two men came to the
| Central police station and asked to see
| Bauer. Their actions were so suspicious
! that they were locked up. When searched
nothing was found ON them. The houses
| of both men will probably be searched
The police think they are important ar
rests.
Unless one of the Anarchists now in
the Central station can be induced to
make a confession, it is very doubtful
whether the police at this end can accom-
plish much more in the direction of un
raveling the meshes of the conspiracy sur
rounding the attack upon the life oi
Chairman Frick.
The imprisoned men, contrary to the
general habits or practices of the element
have for once taken the precaution tc
cover their tracks behind them, and q
thorough examination of the correspond
ence found in the rooms of Knold and
Bauer developes the fact that not a scrap
of 1t bears date within the past siz
| weeks
Yet it can be proven by the postofficC
officials that the mail of both men during
that period has been much larger than for
some time before.
Detective Shore, who is chief of the
corps in charge of the case, is satisfied
that the anarchists had anticipated that q
general search for damaging documents
would follow the attempt upon Frick 4
life, and that consequently they took time
by the forelock in putting all such Grim
mating evidence out of the way.
The list of Pittsburg millionaires and
their residences, which was found among
Bauer's papers, will, it is thought, prove
an important piece of side evidence at the
trial, as indicating that they have had
some sinister designs in view, which were
directed against persons whose names had
been recorded Among these names are
those of Mr.. Frick, Henry Phipps, o.
Carnegie, Phipps 81 Co.; B. f. Jones anc
II. w. Oliver, the big iron operators
E. #. Vandergrift, the oil man, and two
| women whose Mealth exceeds a million