The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-11-09
AN AWFUL DEED.
An Anarchist Throws Bomb in a
Crowded Theatre.
FIFTEEN PERSONS ARE KILLED
Aad Many Mose IaJured by tie Tx
plosion-rhe sconndreI Escapes in
the conrusIoH-The Latest Outrage
at BarceIona-seven of the Victims
are Ladies-The Panic that Fol-
lowed.

BARCELONA, Nov. S.-A dynamite
bomb thrown by alleged anarchists into
the midst Of crowded theatre is the
latest outrage and disaster to be record
ed in Spain. The Lico theatre on the
Rambla DeCapuchines, the Italian opera
house, magnificent building which is
sometimes classed as the largest theatre
in Europe, was filled last night with a
large and distinguished audience and
estimated to have close on 10 four thou
sand people. The opera William Tell
was being performed for the first time
after a long interval.
While the performance was proceed
ing and the enjoyment was at its height
two dynamite bombs were suddenly
hurled from the topmost gallery into
tho midst of the stalls on the floor OF
the house. One OF the dynamite bombs
exploded with a terrible report which
shook the theatre to its foundations
and which scattered death wounds and
destruction upon all sides.
The second bomb happily did not ex-
plode, having fallen in the lap OF lady
from whence it rolled harmlessly to the
floor. The explosion OF the boom
caused scene OF terror and confusion
rarely witnessed in q theatre. The
whole audience rose to its feet with
horror and dismay. There WAS fierce,
mad, hustling rush for the doors, men
and women iiercely fighting with each
other as they crushed weaker ones be-
meath their feet in their effort to escape
from the dynamite shaken theatre,
leaving the wounded and dying behind
them. In this mad rush many old PEG.
pie and children were severely injured
through being trampled under foot,
while others were severely bruised and
crushed by the outpouring crown. Thus
in very few minutes comparatively,
the theatre was emptied except OF the
dead and injured.
The stalls presented u terrible sight.
The part where the bomb exploded was
a mass OF splintered wreckage, amid
which lay number Of dead bodies,
some OF them so terribly mangled as to
be beyond recognition. When the
WTeCkdSe WIS III hOlho ueElSS NIVhISA
away it was found that there were tlf-
teen dead bodies, of which six were
those OF men and nine the corpses OF
women. The bodies ofthe unfortunate
ladies lay close together, their bright
colored evening dresses, laces, and Jew
elry, gloves, hats and bonnets and other
finery drenched with blood aud torn in
the most fearful manner.
The doctors who had been hastily
summoned by the police arrived in
quick succession and Immediately COM
menced careful examination OF the
victims.
Then the dead were removed and laid
together, and the wounds OF those who
we're more seriously hurt we're then at.
tended to by the physicians.
All the houses inhabited by suspected
anarchists have been searched and sew
eral arrests have been made.
1t is presumed that the actual bomb
thrower escaped and that the police are
simply rounding up the anarchists
haunts with the hope Of finding some
clue to the actual perpetrator OF the
crime.
There is still much uncertainty as to
the number Of injured. Among the
dead is an American named Figueras,
his wife was badly wounded, but is now
progressing favorably.