Passaic City record., 1893-09-30
VICTIMS OF DYNAMITE.
SAILORS KILLED BY ENEMIES
IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Union Sailors-Three Buildings
Destroyed and Glass Broken for
Five Men Blo-yn to
Atoms--A sixth Wounded.
A Adispatch from San Francisco, CAL, says
six men were blown up with dynamite early
In the morning on the water front Two
were killed outright, three died in the City
Receiving Hospital after few hours OF
agony, and the sixth still lives with the pros
shattered and broken wreck OF a man.
The explosion was the result ola deliberate
crime. meant to do far deadlier work than
the snuf1ng out OF five lives. 1t is charged
directly to the Coast Seamens Union, a
strong and lawless organization that has
ruled the San Francisco water front for four
years and more Tho list Of the dead is
George Holmes, piledriver, aged twenty-five
William q. Mackenzie, boxmaker, twenty
two Charles Bernard, boarding-house en-
ploye, twenty five Edward Murphy, sailor,
twenty Andrew McGuinness, sailor,
twenty-five.
John Curtin, Jr., is the survivor. There is
a rumor that seven men were In the party
and that the missing man was blown to
atoms. but no fragment OF seventh body
can be found The scene Of the explosion
was Ia front Of John Curtin's sailors board
Ing mouse, 354 MAIN 6treet. near AdrflS0Q,
wooden. two-story building.
The Curtin house has for years been known
as q non-union or "scab" sailors boarding
house. and attacks OF more 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
brutally beaten In the past two years. Only
two or three days ago trap was set on the
sidewalk 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 Curtin and their little
children. Some one tried the latch cautious
" and stole away. a few minutes later the
six victims strolled down the street. All but
two were dodgers in the house. They had all
been at a theatre and stopped to chat q minute
or two before separating.
Young Curtin saw lying againt 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 the cry:
"Boys. it s. dynamite e.
McGuinneSs stepped forward and care
Iessly pushed the vaiise with one foot. That
whole eastern side OF the city and tore beams
and timbers from their fastenings
Caved-in partitions, like eggshells, sfrewed
the street for two blocks with shattered win
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 hfe.ess.
From the fire engine house near by and
from every house men came running to the
spot They found three houses completely
wrecked Out Of the ruins men, women and
children were crawling. Here was a naked
foot and there another. and all about was q
smell OF burned flesh and ofclothing that was
still afire. Directly in front of Curtin $ house
the sidewalk was torn up eor over twenty
feet. and in the centre was hole at least five
feet deep.
At first glance nothing could be seen in the
hole. but when lantern was lowered the
spectators saw. half covered with earth,
broken glass. and splinters of board, the
mutilated remains of a man. Both legs were
blown off below the knees, the head hung to
4he body By few shreds of flesh, and the
entire body was burned The tattered re-
mains of an undershirt still chung TO the
body, but every other particle of clothing
was gone.
In the 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 extinct. Policemen and patrol wagons
were soon at hand, and the bodies were car
ried to the receiving hospital. 1t was found
that Holmes and McGuinness had been in
sstantly killed.
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 one else was hurt By
the explosion.
One Of the victims revived enough on the
way to feel his terrible pain as be 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 bomb was undoubtedly meant to kill
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