Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-25
FIVE KILLED BY A BOMB
Dynamite Exploded to Brighten
 Nonunion Sailors.
BUILDINGS AND WALKS BLOWN UP.

Number of People Terribly Injured.
 other Both Legs, While All Had Their
 Clothing BIown OT-List of tho Dead. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.-A terrific ex- plosion, supposed to have been that of a dynamite bomb, occurred at the nonuniou sailors boarding house and saloon of Mir. and Mrs. John Curtin, located on Main street. The sidewalk in front of the boarding house where the explosion oc- cured was torn to pieces. The buildings on either side of Curtin's house are. badly shattered. Five men who were standing near the spot where the explosion occurred were buried in the debris, two being killed, three mortally wounded and one seriously injured,
 The scene after the explosion was appall- ing in the extreme One man had his face blown of, another both legs, and all of them werr completely stripped of their clothing and covered with blood, smok and Cinders. Even the firmcn in the en- zine house next door were daunted at the sight and waited for the patrol wagon, while the wounded men, with their shat tered limbs and torn faces screamed and wrlthed in their agony on the ground George Holmes, q stevedore. and Brick Me Ginnis, nonunion sailor. were instantly killed, and their bodies were removed to the morEue
 Union Sailors Threw the Bomb.
 William T. Mckenzie was badly burned all over the body. Edward Murphy and Charles Owens were terribly lacerated from head to foot All three were fatally injured. John Curtin, Jr., son of the pro prietor of the boarding house, was badly burned and bruised. All were hastily re moved to the receiving hospital. None of them, except young Curtin, regained con seriousness.
 Young Curtin stated that he believed the explosion to be the outcome of trouble be tween his father and union sailors.
 They threw the bomb,' said Curtin ''l saw it near the door. There was a valise and something wrapped in a blanket. I saw the flash and''- At this point in the conversation the young man lost conscious ness. When he came to, he continued: "I was standing outside, but did not see who left the valise and blanket there My father knows. l do not know what hap pened after that binding flash" Mrs. Curtin, in an interview last evening, said:
 Five In All Are Dead.
 Those men who did this came here last Thursday night after some men. l would not tell them where they were. They came again, and finally l had one of the same men arrested who has just been arrested tonight"
 shortly after the bodies had been remov- ed from the scene of the explosion, three union sailors-John Tyrrcll. James Woods and Torrance Tracy-were arrested on sus- picion of having caused the explosion and were hurried off to jail. Tyrrell was iden- titied by Mrs. Curtis as the man who said to her a few days before, Your days are numbered; we'll fix you,' or words to that effect. Mckenzie, Murphy and Owen died later at the receiving hospital, and John Curtin, Jr., is in critical condition and suffering terrible agony.
 Charles Bernard, boarding house em- ployee; William T. Mckenzie, a boNmaker and Edward Murphy, a sailor, died of in juries received in the explosion soon after C1ey were removed from the wrecked buildings. This makes the number of dead