The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-04-26
ANARCHISTS BUSY.
Wholesale Arrests Fail to Terrify
the Paris Miscreants.
ANOTHER TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.

The Wine Shop OF M. Very, Where
RavochaI Was Arrested, Wreck Cd
by Dynamite and the Proprietor
Killed-Nine Others Seriously In
jured-Many Threatening Letters
PARIS, April 26.-There was terrific
explosion last evening in the entrance o.
the wine shop of M. Very, % Boulevard
Magenta, where Ravachol, the anarch
ist, was arrested on March 80. The
bomb contained OF least twelve pounds
of dynamite, and completely wrecked
the establishment. Ten persons were
seriously injured, and M. Very killed.
The explosion occurred when the wint
shop was half full of guests, and al
nearly as can be learned the bomb was
placed just within the outside door Of
the corridor and at the door leading
from the corridor into the wine room
n. Very was standing in the middle Of
the room when the shock came. He
was thrown against the wall in hear
of shattered tables and chairs. The
ceiling fell and several beams were split
and fell to the floor. A minute after
the explosion ten of the guests recovered
their senses and ran into the street shout
ing and crying fire The police who
have been stationed near the wine shop
since Ravachofs arrest came up as the
uninjured came out and began bringing
out those unable to help themselves.
The Proprietor Fearfully Mangied.
M, Very was found to be in pitiable
condition. Both of his legs had been
crushed by the falling beams his collar
bone was fractured and his right arm
broken. He was bleeding at the mouth
and ears and is supposed to have suffered
internal injuries His little boy was
found unconscious in a corner, with his
collar bone broken. Both were taken to
the st. Louis hospital, where M. very's
legs were ainputated. He died shortly
before midnight.
Of the other nine persons injured three
were taken to the hospital and the Others
We're helped to their homes by the police.
Six of them are said to have broken
limbs and internal injuries.
The Building Wrecked.
Half of the front of the wine shop was
DlOWu OUT. llle Suits OF the lower Two
stories were smashed to spbnters, and
not a door or window in the house was
left whole. The floor in the corridor
was blown away, the chandelier was
twisted and hurled into corner, and
where the ceiling and walls were not
split the plaster was taken off as if
scraped with knife. The buildings on
each side of the wine shop were dam
aged from top to bottom. Half of the
furniture was broken and all the glass
in them was shattered. The whole
block around the wine shop was rocked
by the explosion, and the walls were
started so that they cracked or bulged.
The neighborhoodis thickly populated,
and five minutes after the explosion the
street was crowded with frightened men
and women. An extra force of police
was summoned, and an effort was made
to induce the people to return to their
rooms. The effort was fruitless. For
some time women and children blocked
the sidewalks, crying and wringing their
hands. Later men began carrying out
their most valuable possessions and pre-
pared to move their families to other
parts Of the city. Much of the patronage
of the wine shop was local, and families
i'll the neighborhood fear that Ravochals
friends have marked it for destruction
as warming to Che magistrate and wit
nesses at the trial, which began this
forenoon.