The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-09
BOMBS IN A THEATER.
Dastardly Work of Anarchists in
Barcelona.
THIRTY KILLED AND FIFTY DYING.

II Is Believed tho Outrage Was Com
mitted in Revenge for the Execution OF
PnlIas, tho Assaiiant of General Mar
tinez Csmpos.
BARCELONA, Nov GA dastardly out
rage was committed in this city that for
6endishness and crazy desire to murder
has seldom been equalled. The Lyceum
opera house, one of the places Of amuse-
ment much frequented by the elite OF Bar
oelona society, was the scene OF the out
rage. In the second act, when the audi
ence was listening intently to the singers
in civilian Tell" two bombs, presuna-
bly, loaded with dynamite were thrown
from the gallery.
As the bombs struck the floor below one
of them exploded with terrific report.
Almost every person in the house sprang
to his feet in terror and dismay. Wild
shrieks and cries of agony rose from the
lower part of the house, and 1t was known
that many persons had been injured.
The widest kind of confusion prevailed,
and many men, their faces pale with
fright, abandoned the ladies they had es-
corted, and made desperate rushes for the
exits, knocking down and trampling upon
those in their way, without regard to age
or sex. When the smoke and dust caused
by the explosion 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 there
abouts had been blown to pieces, and the
flooring in spots was torn up and the
beams partly shattered.
The feeling against the anarchists Is
very bitter, the people believing that this
is but the Brst of a series of outrages that
will be attempted to avenge the death of
Pallas, who, the night before his death,
declared that some of his fellow anar-
0hists were sworn to wreak revenge for
his killing.
1t is supposed that the reason that one
of the bombs did not explode was that it
struck the back of n man sitting In one of
the seats, extinguishing the fuse. The
missile itself having been broken, and the
burning fuse put out, dropped harmless to
the floor.
All the men arrested on suspicion of be
ing the authors of the outrage proved to
the satisfaction of the police that they had
nothing to do with it. 1t is feared that
the miscreants who committed the das-
tardly crime made their escape before the
officials of the opera house reached the
gallery,
Notwithstanding the frightful confus-
ion, the lower part of the building was
emptied in a few minutes of all but the
officials and the dead and injured.
The stalls were completely wrecked by
ths explosion. There were many ladies
occupying these stalls, and a great many
of them were injured, some reports placing
the number as high as 100.
They presented most pitiable sight
All were attired in full dress, and as they
were carried out many of them were in a
dead faint. Their gay dresses were torn
into shreds, and their faces, shoulders and
arms were drenched in blood. 1t is said
chat several OF those killed were members
Of one family that occupied a stall close
to where the bomb that exploded fell
Three persons were found dead on the stair
ways, while several others who had been
badly crushed were found lying on the
&loor near the exits. The dead now mum
Der twenty-three, several having died al
the hospital, while other deaths are ex
pected.
Fifteen persons were killed instantly
and fifteen others have since succumbed
Eighty persons are in a serious condition
some of them from injuries and Others
from fright. 1t is reported that fifty ot
bnb llJuTeu CHHhub ftGoNtr' lHt ihttrlol
of the opera house is badly wrecked. Tn,
killed include n German named Roggen
brod an Englishman named Ramm and {
Frenchman named Verdon. Among tn,
injured is German of the name of Wicke
who was the representative of u Nortl
American firm. There are no Americans
or Englishmen among the injured.
An Italian named Maurice Saldani, VIII
was arrested ON suspicion of being respon
( sible for the outrage, has confessed. Sew
srsl well known Spanish anarchists hav
been arrested on suspicion of complicit.
In the crime. Marie Damerini, a sister o
the prima donna of tie opera, is reporte'
10 have been killed by the explosion.