The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-17
TRIED TO BLOW UP A HOUSE
Dynamite Exploded in the Residence
Of a French General.

Small Packages of the Explosives
Placed in Different Parts of the
Building in the Hope That the First
Explosion Would Set OF the Others.
Had 1t Done So, the House Would Be
in Ruins and It's Inmates Corpses,
Marseilles Nov. 16.-A dastardly at
tempt was made to blow up the residence
of Gen. Mathelin, commander of the
Fifteenth army corps, about midnight
last night. The house is surrounded by
a high wall into which sentry boxes are
built. 1t is the official residence of the
general of the division commanding the
fifteenth army corps, which includes in
its jurisdiction the Lower Alps, the Mari
time Alps, Ardeche, the Bouches du
Rhone, Corsica, Gard, Var, Vaucluse and
Marseilles.
DYNAMITE IN THE SENTRY BOXES.
Into the small inches or sentry boxes a
number of little casks of dynamite was
| placed, and in addition to this dynamite
was placed in a room adjoining the apart
ments occupied by the general, used by
the generals orderlies. In some manner
not explained up to the present, the case
| of dynamite placed in the orderlies' room
exploded at about midnight with a loud
| report, shattering the walls and hurting
a mass of debris into the guard room,
without, however, injuring anybody.
Every pane of glass in the generals
house and in the adjoining houses was
smashed, ana the girls school and Octroi
building, opposite the generals residence,
were badly damaged
BOMB IN THE HOUSE.
In addition, a bomb was discovered in
one of the passages of the generals
house, and it is believed that the con
spirators were under the impression that
| the explosion of the first case of dynamite
would be sufficient to explode the bomb
found in the passage, as well as the dyna-
mite in the sentry boxes, which, had these
successive explosions taken place, would
have reduced the generals $ residence to q
heap of bricks, and would have killed
every person beneath its roof, besides de-
strOying the girls school and its inmates,
as well as the Octroi buildings.
NO sENTRIEs ON DUTY.
1t appears that for several years past
no sentries have been stationed about the
official residence of the generals in com
| mand of divisions in which long quiet has
prevailed, and the situation at Marseilles
did not warrant taking this precaution.
| The force of the explosion was felt a mile
away. There is considerable excitement
over the affair. Nothing has been dis
covered as to the perpetrators. The acci-
dent is charged to half a dozen different
sources, all conjectural
THE PEOPLE ALARMED.
The alarm caused by the explosion is
evident this evening. The theaters and
music halls are nearly empty, and every
body fears that more explosions have
been planned by the anarchists. The
cafes are deserted, and the number of ar
rivals at the hotels has declined noticea-
bly,. The police have continued all day
their search of the houses and apart
ments occupied by the anarchist suspects,
Much anarchist literature has been
seized In one house the police found a
large quantity of hand bills, calling upon
! the people to rise against the bourgeoise
authority.
1t is reported that a considerable
quantity of explosives was found in an
anarchist dwelling this evening
Among the forty men who have been
arrested are twelve Italians. The police
of the entire French reviera are out on an
anarchist hunt.