The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-22
MADRID WAS SHAKEN.
Dynamiter Blown to Pieces by the
Bomb He Carried.
PEOPLE TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN
PANIC WHICH FOLLOWED.


House of Canovas Gel Castello-Frag-
ments of Body Left in the Street
and Badly Wounded Man Found
Near By-Many Persons Killed and In
jured in the Panic in Neighboring
Circus.
MADRID, June 21.-A large dynamite
bomb was exploded at midnight last
night, few feet from the house of Can
ovas del Castillo. ex-Premier. The ex-
plosion was heard throughout the city.
The immediate district round the house
was shaken as if by an earthquake.
Three policemen ran to the spot. They
found the dismembered body of man
in the street, and caught man crawling
down the street on his hands and knees.
When arrested the man refused to say
what he knew Of the explosion, but COM
planned that he was severely wounded.
One of his legs was broken, his scalp
was torn, and his face was covered with
blood. He was taken to police station.
and was there identified by servant en-
ployed in house opposite the EXPIRE
miers as one of three men whom she
had seen standing on the other side of
the street just before the explosion. AZ
ter the explosion she said she heard
man run away. Many houses in the
neighborhood where the explosion oc-
CURED were badly damaged.
While the police were looking over the
ground just after the explosion, Canovas
opened the door and ordered out all his
servants to help search for the limbs of
the man blown to pieces by the bomb.
One leg, the head and, a hand were found
70 feet from the place where the bomb
was set. News of the explosion was
spread through the city before O'clock.
All the cabinet ministers and MANY con-
spicuous deputies called upon Canovas
at once to congratulate him on his es-
| cape.
At the time of the explosion per-
formance was being given at circus a
short distance from the residence of Sc
| nor del Castillo. The shock was so
great that it caused part of the ceiling
| directly over the. stalls that were occ,i-
| pied by party of mobiles to crash down
upon the heads Of the occupants of the
| stalls. Blinded by the dust that filled
the air, and with the roar of the explo-
| sion still reyerberatingA, through the
building, the people were panicstricken
and made rush for the exits. paying no
attention to those unlucky enough TO
| stumble and fall, but trampling upon
them in frantic efforts to escape.
| Among the occupants of the stalls were
the grandson of the Marquis of Havana,
President of the Senate, and son of
Marquis Guadalest. The former was
struck on the head by large piece of
| the falling ceiling, and sustained in
| juries that will cause his death in a few
hours. The son of Marquis Guada' Q st
attempted to rush from the building, but
| lost his footing, and the panic-stricken
crowd trampled him to death. His body
| was later removed from the building.
His face was hardly recognizable.
| Seven other persons were also trampled
upon by the crowd and seriously injured,
while a large number of those who
escaped unaided from the building sus-
tanned painful but not dangerous in
juries.
1t is generally believed that the explo-
| sion was the work of Anarchists whose
headquarters are at Barcelona. The
affair is supposed to have some connec-
| tien with the plans of the revolutionists
in Barcelona. where the opponents of
the government have shown much ac-
| tivity of late.
1t has been learned that prior to the
explosion a gentleman and two work
men were seen near the house of Senior
| Canovas del Castillo. The gentleman
! disappeared few minutes before the
| explosion occurred. It is believed that
the workman who was killed by the
explosion carried number of bombs
charged with dynamite and large bullets.
and that it was his intention to distrib-
| ute them in various parts of the city. 1t
| is conjectured that the fuse of the bomb
| that first exploded burned much more
rapidly than the conspirators calculated
| upon, and that the shock of the explo-
sion caused the bombs carried by the
workingman to explode, blowing his
body to fragments. The dead man was
a printer. Anarchist papers and docu-
ments belonging to, a well known an
archist named Ernesto Alvarez, were
found in the pockets of the clothing that
was left on the mutilated ) trunk,
and it is believed that the victim of his
own diabolical designs was none other
than this foe of law and order. A letter
dated from Barcelona was also found,
| advising the recipient to use the utmost
caution in carrying out the plans intrust'
ed to him. Alvarez had been previously
arrested for his connection with anarch.
ist plots, but had managed to escape con-
viction. Several anarchist printers in
Madrid have already been arrested or
suspicion of being implicated in the plot
| Postmaster at windham.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-C. d. Hasty
has been appointed postmaster at Wind
ham Centre, Me-, vice Fred S. Hawkes..