The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-25
VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE.
Five Men Killed by Their Enemies
in San Francisco.
LABOR FEUDS AND MURDER.
Three Buildings Destroyed and Glass
Broken for Blocks.

| A Terrible Crime Carried Out by Uaion
Sniiors-Tbey Attempt TO Blow Up Nos.
UnionBoarding House-TheL Landlord Haa
Supplied Scab labor TO the ship Own.
| ers-His Foes PiIo Dynamite Aesisst
His Door-Six OF tho Boarders, Con.
Ing Home from tho Theatre, Ftaa
| tho Explosive and Ono Hits It with Hts
| Foot-Only Ono Escapes with Hts Lire-A
Deep Hole Yawns Where tho Sidewalk
was-Three Union Men Dragged or to
Jail with Suspicion Strong Against Then
| Tho Police Hunting for Moro Criminals.
San Francisco. Sent 24.-six mon were
| blown UP with dynamite early this morning
| on the water front. Two were killed outright.
three died in the City Receiving Hospital after
q few hours Of agony. and the sixth still lives
| with the prospect OF ultimate recovery. but he
will be shattered and broken wreck Of a man.
| The explosion was the result Of deliberate
| crime. meant to do far deadlier work than the
| snuffine out Of five lives. 1t is charged d.
| rectly to the Coast Seamen's Union. strong
| and lawless organization that has ruled the
| San Francisco water front for four years and
more. Tho list OF the dead is:
GEORGES HoLxra pnedrIver. aged "a
WILLIAM T. MACKENZIE boxmaker. -.
CHARLES BERNARD. boarding house employee, rs.
EDwARp MURPHY. sailor 2s
ANDREW hcGUISsEss, sailor, 26
John Curtin. Jr. is the survivor. There
| Is rumor that seven men were in the
| party and that the missing man was blown
| to atoms. but no fragment OF a seventh body
can be found. The scene OF the explosion was
in front Of John Curtin's sailors boarding
| house. 1874 Main street. near Harrison. Q
wooden two-story building.
The Curtin house has for years been known
house. and attacks Of moro or less brutality
have from time to time been made by union
sailors, both upon John Curtin and the men he
housed. and three times has Curtin been bru-
tally beaten in the past two years. Only two
or three days ago q trap was set on the side
walk for Curtin to fall into AS result Of the
injuries thus received he was lying In bed
when the explosion occurred.
At midnight the door Of the Curtin house
was locked. Most Of the inmates were abed.
including Mr.. and Mrs. durtin and their little
children. Some one tried the latch cautious.
~ and and stole away. few minutes later
the six victims strolled down the street All
but two were dodgers In the house. They had
| all been at q sheatre and stopped to chat o
| minute or two before separating.
Young Curtin saw lying against the door
| what seemed to be valise covered with an old
blanket. Jerking away the covers he picked
up the valise and instantly put it down again
and sprang back with tho cry:
MY God. boys it's dynanite!"
McGuinness stepped forward and carelessly
pushed the valise with one foot. That instant
there WAS a crash that shook the whole east.
ern side Of the city and tore beams and tim bers
from their fastenIngs.
Caved-in partitions. like eggshells. strewed
the street for two blocks with shattered vim
dows. and scraped out yawning hole where
the sidewalk had been. Worse than that, It
left in the tangle OF splintered boards and
broken glass six bodies. stripped. most OF
them. to the skin. all apparently lifeless.
From the fire engine house near by and
from overy house men came running to the
spot. They found three houses completely
wrecked. Out Of the ruins men. women. and
children wore crawling Here was q naked
foot. and there another. and all about was q
smell OF burned flesh and Of clothing that was
still afre. Directly In front OF Curtin's house
the sidewalk was torn up for over twenty feet.
and in the centre was hole at least five feet
deep.
At first glance nothing could be seen in tho
hole. but when q lantern was lowered the Spec
ta,ors saw. half covered with earth. broken
glass. and spllnters Of board. the mutilated re-
mains OF a man. Both legs were blown of be-
low the knees the head hung to the body by Q
few shreds OF flesh. and the entire body was
burned. The tattered remains Of an under.
shirt still chung to the body. but every other
particle OF clothing was gone.
In tho gutter next to the sidewalk lay the
bodies Of three men. and the faint means from
two OF them showed that life was not yet ex.
tinct. Policemen and patrol wagons were sooa
at hand. and the bodies were carried to the re-
celving hospital. 1t was found that Holmes
and McGuinness had been instantly killed.
One OF the victims revived enough on the
way to feel his terrible pain as he was carried
to the operating table. On him. as on the other
victims, there WAS not spot an inch square
from which blood was not oozing.
The surgeons saw at once that Curtin was
the only one who could live. 1t was only an
hour or two before all the rest were dead.
Strangely enough. no ono else was hurt BY the
explosion.
The bomb was undoubtedly meant to kill
Curtin. his wife and children and all the non
union sailors In the house. Probably It had
time fuse attached and the man who carried
1t feared to wait long enough to open the
locked door. 1t was merely chance that
brought tho six victims to the spot Just at the
moment when the deadly engine was to ex-
plode.
The police did prompt work. Three men
were arrested within an hour on strong GUS
picion. Mrs Curtin told the police that few
days before several union sailors had warned
her that tho days OF herself and her husband
wero numbered. She guided the police to
union boarding house near by. They found
John Tyrrell in bed. feignng sleep, though
every one else was wide awake.
In the next room James Woods was found
in bed partly dressed. He dropped hint
on which another room that had been found
empty was revisited. In it was found man
named Tracy. lIo had been hiding on the
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