The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-12-14
BOMB EXPLODED.
Dastardly Act of French An
 arcaist.
A MOST STARTLING CRIME.
He Throws n Dynamite Bomb In the French Chamber oi Deputies, Wounding Scores of
 Persons.

PARIS, Lee. ll.-A pom O was thrown fin the chumber of deputies Saturday afternoon without fatalities, though many persons were badly wounded. The usual number of members present when no matter of great importance is to be considered were in their seats, and the business of the house was pro- ceeding sleepily. The galleries con tained number of visitors, including some ladies, who watched the proceed ings with little interest
 In the gallery above the benches oc- cupied by the members of the right were number of strangers, none of whom had attracted any attention when they entered the gallery. In the course of business of the house the election of M. Aierman came up for discussion. M. Miermau had been speaking and had just descended to his seat when a man in the gallery threw a bomb toward the floor of the house.
 The bomb must have had time fuse attached to it, for as it passed the head of Prof. Lemiere, deputy for Haze bruck, it exploded with terrific re- port
 A dense cloud of dust and smoke as- cended. shutting out from view for a time those sitting in the body of the house. For single instant the house was perfectly quiet, and then, the members and others realizing what had occurred, there was the widest ex- citement
 The officers detailed to guard the chamber were the first to regain their senses They at once shut the doors leading to the chamber to prevent the escape of the bomb thrower The peo- ple in the galleries fled, fearing that other bombs would be thrown. They were in state bordering on frenzy and almost fell over each other in their wild but futile haste to get out of the building. One lady, who, it was subse- quently learned was an American, had been hit on the forehead by a piece of the casing of the bomb, and she fled with blood streaming over her face
 On the floor of the house the excite ment was fully as great us that in the galleries Many of the members rushed for the exits fearing every mo ment to hear another explosion.
 NJ. Dupuy, the president of the cham Der, was apparently the coolest man in the chamber. Two ladies, besides the American in the lower gallery, were injured. A man sitting beside the bomb thrower was also wounded The deputies wounded were: Prof. Abbe Lemiere, Count Paul Henri Lanjuinas and M Leffel.
 Prof Lemiere is Catholic socialist He was elected to represent the First district of llazebruck. and this is his first term of service in the chamber of deputies
 Count Paul Henri Lanjuinas has been member since 1889. lie sits for Nor bihan.
 M. Leffel is republican. He was born in 1889, is an ex-lieutenant of the navy and sits for Chinon.
 The excitement among the members, wild though it was, did not last long. The wounded were taken to committee rooms and medical assistance was hastily summoned to assist them. While this was being done some of the reporters picked from the floor of the house bits of metal and number of horseshoe nails that had furnished part of the contents of the bomb.
 Opposite the gallery from which the bomb was thrown Is the gallery deyot- ed to the use of foreign representatives A number of them who were in the gallery said they first thought when they heard the explosion that some one had discharged a revolver on the floor of the chamber The report was so loud and the flash of light so brilliant, how ever, that they were quickly convinced of their mistake. The dust raised by the explosion was so thick that the clothing of everybody in the chamb CT presented an ashy appearance.
 Up to Saturday evening fifty wounded persons had passed through the hands of Dr. Blet alone. Altogether there are over eighty persons wounded.
 NJ. Meyer, the judge d'instruction, has charge of the examination of the persons arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the outrage
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