Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-09
PARIS SCARED AGAIN.
An Internal Machine Picked Up by
the City Police Explodes
AND FIVE MEN ARE IN ETERNITY.
The Anarchists Intended to Blow Up
CarmauI Company Officers.
A CAMPAIGN A LA RAvACHOL FEARED

PARIS, Nov 8-An explosion occurred
this morning, by which four persons lost
their lives ana another was fatally injured.
The affair was undoubtedly the work OF
Anarchists who were seeking revenge against
the Carmau1 Mining Company, whose long
continued struggle with their employees was
amicably settled few days ago.
The first accounts greatly underrated the
havoc wrought by the explosion. When the
CONSERVATION had subsided, a search was
made of the station and the bodies of four
men who had been killed were found The
dead were sergeant of police, the Police
Commissary's Secretary, policeman and
porter employed by the Carmaux Mining
Company, who, it turns out, had, at the re-
quest of the policeman who discovered the
vessel, carried it to the station. An inspec-
tor of police was mortally wounded.
Early this morning two policemen were
passing along the Avenue de L'Opera-
When they arrived in front of the offices of
the Carmaux Mining Company, their atten-
tion was called to curious iron vesssl re-
sembling a saucepan lying close to the
building in which the company's Offices are
located.
Exploded While Examining 1t.
They picked the vessel up and carried it
to the police station, where they and otner
officers began to examine it. They had been
investigating only few minutes when
the vessel exploded with terrific force, in
stantly killing two of the officers and so
terribly wounding another that the doctors
say his recovery is impossible.
Quite number of officers were in the
stations, and it is seemingly miraculous
that more of them were not killed. The
windows of the building were blown out,
the plastering was torn off and the furnl-
ture broken and scattered in every direc-
tion. In fact, the whole interior of the
building was wrecked, and SO great was
the force Of the explosion that even the
outer walls were damaged.
A large crowd gathered about the
wrecked building, and the greatest indig-
nation was expressed against the authors of
the outrage The affair has caused re-
newal of the fears that were experienced
during the time of the outrage perpetrated
by Ravachol and his accomplice. The last
case may be the first of another series of
dynamite explosions The police, how
ever assert that the affair was an attempt
to blow up the officers of the Carmaux Com
panv. They say that had the explosion
occurred at the Office the results would have
been much more disastrous.
The Power of the Unknown Explosive.
What the explosive was is not known,
but it was most powerful. So violent was
the explosion that houses in the vicinity
were shaken to their foundations, and their
occupants rushed into the streets, fearing
the buildings were about to fall. Two
stories of the police building were CON-
plstely wrecked. The streets were quickly
strewn with debris.
1t is now stated that it was not the police
who found the bomb, but that it was discov-
cred BY the cashier of tine Carmaux Com
pany, who noticed it lying in the entrance
of the building. The affair was of spherical
shape, and handle was attached to it The
cashier called policeman, who, accompan-
led Dy the company's porter, took the bomb
to the station.
of the internal machine struck while the
four men who were killed were standing
over and examining it. Instantly there
was terrific roar and shock, and the work
of destruction was done. 1t was not be-
lieved that the men who were killed ever
knew what hit them. They were so fear
fully mangled that death must have been in
Simultaneous. Everybody left alive in the
station, except the inspector, who was too
badly injured to move, rushed through the
clouds OF smoke and dust and made their
way to the street.
The Terrible Havoc of the Explosion.
For short time they could not realize
what had occurred, but as soon as they re-
gained their wits, they rushed back to save,
if possible, their missing comrades. They
soon returned, bearing the wounded in
spector, who was unconscious. He was at
once taken hospital. The police brought
out the bodies OF the dead and sent them
to the morgue, where efforts were made to
restore them to a semblance of humanity.
The excitement caused by the outrage
grows in intensity, and many threats are
made The best detectives have been de-
tailed on the case. NJ. Loubet, the Prime
Minister, NJ Ricard, Minister of Justice,
the Procureur of the Republic and the Pre-
fector of Police visited the scene of the
explosion this afternoon and made close
inspection of the wrecked building The
interior of the structure presented sinister
spectacle of destruction. The floor of the
front room, the first from the street, was
covered with fragments of glass, wood and
plaster The room at the back, where the
explosion occurred, was covered with
splashes of blood and bits of brain. skin and
bone The bodies had not been removed at
the time of their visit, but were taken away
afterward.
The Secretary's Head Can't Be Found.
Fragments of the bodies were mixed with
the debris, and the sight was a horrible one.
Near the door lay the body of policeman,
the clothing torn to shreds and the viscera
protrudlng from great gaping wound.
Part OF the sergeant's body was living in a
corner of the room. 1t was unrecognizable,
save by some remaining fragments of the
uniform. The boots had been torn off the
feet by the force of the explosion. The
headless trunk of the porter was found un-
der bench. Portions of what are believed
to have once been his skull were picked up
in the adjacent street. Only part of the
trunk of the Commissary's secretary was
found intact. The head had been blown
off and has not been found. The thighs
were crushed and the legs were reduced to
a pulp.
A gendarme who was running at the top
of his speed to the Sub-Pretecture of Police
to notify the officials there of the explosion,
fell dead in the street. 1t is supposed that
the excitement under which he was labor
ing brought on sudden attack of heart
disease.
KITTY PARNELL IN BANKRUPTCY.