Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-11-11
BOMB THROWERS.
Terrible Work Of Anarchists In a
Crowded Theatre at BARGE
Iona.
Two Bombs Thrown Into the Midst
of a Great Audicnce-0ne ofThein
Exploded,
Causing Loss Of Eighteen Lives
and Serious Injury to Many
Persons.

bomb, thrown by alleged anarchists into
the midst of crowded theatre is the
latest outrage and disast n to be recorded
in the Lyceo theatre, on the Rambla
de Capuchins. The Italian opera house,
a magnificent building, which is some
times classed as the largest theatre in
Europe, was filed during the evening
with a large and distinguished audience,
and it is estimated to have numbered
close on to 1000 people. The opera
"William Tell was being performed for
the first time after q long interval.
While the performance was proceeding,
and the enjoyment was at its height, two
dynamite bombs were suddenly hurled
from the torlnost gallery into the midst
of the stalls on the floor of tho house.
One of the dynamite bombs
Exploded With a Terrible Report
tions, and which scattered death,
wounds and destruction upon all sides.
The second bomb, happily, did not ex-
plode, having fallen in tho lap of lady,
from whence it rolled harmlessly to the
floor. The explosion of the bomb caused
ec"''o Of hcrror and confusion rarely
Mitu.so.u ~ a theatre. The whole
audience rose to its feet with horror and
dis1nay, hardly knowing what had hap
pened the building ringing with shrieks
Of fear, cries of pain and exclalnati ms Of
vengeance. For a moment the Lvceo
was filled with smoke and dust, falling
glass and plaster, which caused a hor-
rible roaring din, which added to the
horror Of the situation and which
animated the vast audience. The terri
fed crowd, fearing that at any moment
another bomb might be thrown into
their midst, completely
Lost All Sense of Control.
All regard for women and children
seemed to vanish in those moments of
fearful ''sauve qui pout, and there was q
fearful, mad rush for the doors, men and
women fercely fighting with each other
as they crushed weaker ones beneath
their feet in the effort to escape from the
dynamite shaken theatre. leaving the
wounded and dying behind them, tended
only by few OF the braver hands who
remained faithful to their dear ones. In
this mad rush many old people and
children We're severely injured by being
traiapled under foot, while others were
severely bruised and crushed by the out
pouring crowd. Thus, in a few miu-
utes, comparatively, the theatre was
e1nptied, except of the dead and injured.
The stalls
Presented Terrible Sight.
The part where the bomb exploded was
a mass of splintered wreckage amid
which lay numbers Of dead bodies, some
Of them so terribly mangled as to be
beyond recognition. When the wreck
age was in some degree cleared away it
was found that there were
Fifteen Dead Bodies,
of which six were those of men and nine
OF women. The bodies of the unfortu-
nate ladies lay close together, their bright
colored evening dresses, l2ces and jew
elry, gloves, hats and bonnets and other
fnery drenched in blood and torn in the
most fearful manner. 1t was reported,
soon after the examination of the dead
men that large proportion of the killed
belonged to one family who had taken a
number of tickets, it is presumed, form
ing theatre party in honor of the birth
ofc of 11-; l,+
to death by the anarchist bomb. At
some distance from the fatal spot where
the Is dead bodies lay beneath the
wrcckage were groaning in agony many
ladies and gentlemen who had been in
jured by splinters, pieces of glass and
fragments Of iron.
Several others May Die.
OF those wounded several were so
seriously hurt that they not recover from
the effects of the explosion. The doctors,
who had been hastily summoned by the
police, arrived i'll quick succession and
Immediately commenced a careful ex-
animation Of the victims of this latest
horrible outrage Oh the part Of the an
arch;sts. Then the dead were removed
and laid together and wounds of those
who were more seriously hurt We're then
attended to by the physicians. hestairs
and corridors were next searched for
dead and wounded people who fell VIC
Tins to that terrible rush for the doors
which followed the explosion. Upon the
stairs and in the corridors three persons
were found lying dead and large num-
Der Of seriously injured people were
picked up.