Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-09
BOMBS HURLED THEATRE
Dastardly Outrage by An
arohistS in Barcelona.
PEOPLE KILLED AND WOUNDED
A Terrible Panic Follows the
Explosion.
In Frantic Rush to Escape From the
Opera House People Were Trampied
Under Foot Fifteen Reported Dead
and Many wounded--Peoplo Incensed
Against the Murderous Anarchists.


UnitedPress Dispatch by Special Wires.
BARCELONA, SPAIN, Nov. ga das-
tardly outrage was committed in this
city, last night, that for tiendishness and
crazy desire to murder has seldom been
equalled. The Lyceum Opera House,
one of the places of amusement much
frequented by the elite of Barcelona
society, was the scene Of the outrage.
The opera season at this house opened
last night, civilian Tell" being billed
for production. There was large au-
dience present. Everything went along
without a hitch until the second act
when, us the audience was listening in
tently to the singers on the stage, two
bombs, presumable loaded with dyna-
mite, were thrown from the gallery. AS
the bombs struck the floor below, one
of them
EXPLODED WITH A 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 il
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 escorted
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
thereabouts had been blown TO pieces
and the beams partly shattered.
FIFTEEN REPORTED KILLED.
AS yet it has been impossible to dis
cover how many, if any, people were
killed, but one report has it that 10 lost
| their lives. The number of injured
will DO large, for it is certain that many
besides those who were wounded by
the exploding bomb were hurt by being
! trampled upon by the panic-stricken
crowd fleeing TO the streets. Several
persons were removed from the building
with nearly every shred of clothing torn
from their bodies.
THE WORK OF ANARCHISTS.
The only persons who retained their
|
present. Immediately the bomb ex-
ploded and the singers rushed In terror
from the stage, the officials grasped the
situation. They knew that the outrage
was work of Anarchists and determined
to prevent the escape of the miscreants.
Some of them ran to the gallery and
surrounded that part of it from which
the bombs had been thrown. Several
suspicious looking characters were
placed under arrest, and when closer
examination was made of the prisoners
it was found that two of them were
Anarchists well known to the police.
CARING FOR THE WOUNDED.
Other officials directed their attention
to caring for the wounded. Six ladies
and nine men were seen being conveyed
from the Opera House to the hospital
Each of them was severely wounded.
When the news of the outrage spread
through the city, the Opera House wal
quickly surrounded by great crowd
who gave vent to their feeling of indig
nation by cursing the Anarchists anC
the police. They insisted that the latte
were to blame for the explosion, as they
should have known that Anarchists arr
still active in the city.
The feeling against the Anarchists il
very bitter, the people believing tina
this is but the first of series of out
RACES that will be attempted to aveng
the death of Pallas, the Anarchist whit
was shot for killing General Campas
and who, the night before his death, de
clared that some of his fellow Anarch
lists were sworn to wreak revenge TO
his killing.
1t is supposed that the reason tina
one of the bombs did not explode wa
, that it struck the back of man sittin
i in one of the seats, extinguishing tn
fuse. The missile itself having bee
broken and the burning fuse put ou
dropped harmless to the floor.
THE DEATHS NUMBER FIFTEEN.
Later--It has now been officiall
stated that the deaths number 10. TIL
announcement has caused the indigns
ton against the murderers to increase
/ and bitter threats are made agains
them in the event of speedy justice nc
being melted out to them.
No official statement has yet bee
made as to the number of persons in
| jured, but it is believed that it will b
large.