The Portland daily press., 1893-11-09
Crash Of a Dynamite Bomb Silences
the Singers on the Stage.
THIRTY PEOPLE WERE KILLED
IN BARCELONA.
Tho Bomb Was Thrown by Anarchists
and the Outrage Was One of a Series of
Murders-Wild Panic Followed in the
Opera House Many People Being
Crushed in the Struggle to Escape
Anarchists Arrested.

Cfusneu IN Jne Struggle 10 Escape
Anarchists Arrested.
Barcelona, November s.-The Lyceum
Opera house, one of the places OF amuse-
ment much frequented by the elite of
Barcelona's society, was the scene of a
diabolical outrage last night. The opera
season at this house opened last evening
and there was large attendance
present Everything went along with
out a hitch until the second act of
"William Tell which was the opera pro-
duced, when, as the audience was listen
ing intently to the singers on the stage,
two bombs presumably loaded with
AS the bombs struck the floor below one
of them exploded with a terrific report
Almost every person in the house sprang
to their feet in terror and dismay. Wild
shrieks and cries Of agony rose from the
lower part OF the house, and it was
known that many persons had been in
jured.
The widest kind of confusion pre-
vailed, and many men, their faces pale
with fright, abandoned the ladies they
for the exits, knocking down and tramp
ling upon those in their way without re-
gard to age or sex.
When the smoke caused by the explo-
sion cleared away the forms of many
persons were seen writhing upon the floor
in the vicinity of the place where the
bomb had fallen. The seats thereabouts
had been blown into pieces, and the
flooring in spots was torn up and the
beams partly shattered. 1t IS officially
stated that fifteen lost their lives.
The number of injured will be large,
for it is certain that many besides those
wounded by the exploding bomb were
hurt by being trampled upon by the
panic-stricken crowd fleeing to the street.
Several persons were removed from the
building with nearly every shred of
clothing torn from their bodies.
Immediately after the bomb had ex-
ploded and the singers rushed in terror
from the stage, the officials grasped the
situation. They knew that The outrage
was the work of Anarchists and deter
mined to, prevent the, escape Of the
miscreants. Some of them ran to TIE
gallery and surrounded that part of it
from which the bombs had been. thrown.
Several suspicious looking characters
were placed under arrest, and when a
closer examination was made of the
prisoners it was found that two men of
them were Anarchists we'll known to the
police.
Other officials devoted their attention
to caring for the wounded Six ladies
and nine men were conveyed from the
Opera house to the hospital. Each of
them was severely wounded.
When the news of the outrage spread
through the city, the Opera house was
quickly surrounded by a great crowd of
excited people. Within the past six
months Anarchist nutrages have been
perpetrated in this city, including the
attempt by Pallas to kill General
Martinez Campos, for which the would
be assassin was shot. The police were
very active for time in hunting down
Anarchists, and their efforts were re-
| warded with great success, many of the
gang falling into their hands. Much ex-
plosiye material was captured, and then
apparently the police rested, content with
their work. leaving the Anarchists free
to plan and execute other outrages..
The feeling against the Anarchists is
very bitter, the people believing that
this is but the first of series of outrages
that will be attempted to avenge this
death of Pallas, who the night before his
death declard that some of his fellow
Anarchists were sworn to wreak
vengeance for his killing.