The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-09
BOMBS FLY IN A THEATER.
Anarchist FiendiShnGSS Costs Eighteen
Lives at Barcelona.

LltbO Ut Du1bCIUuut
Two Explosives Hurled From the Top
Gallery Into the Pit-One Explodes
and Kills Fifteen Persons-The Other
Lands in a Woman's Lap and Falls
to the Floor without Exploding.
Three More Lives Lost In the Wild
Scramble to Escape From the Build
ing.
Barcelona, Nov. S.--A dynamite bomb
thrown by an alleged anarchist into the
midst of crowded theater is the latest
outrage and disaster to be recorded in
Spain.
The Lyceo theater on the Rambla De
Capuchines, the Italian opera house, a
magnificent building which is sometimes
classed as the largest in Europe, was
filled last night with a large and dis
tinguished audience, which is estimated to
have numbered close on to 900 people.
The opera civilian Tell" was being
performed for the first time after a long
interval.
While the performance was proceeding
and the enjoyment was at its height, two
dynamite bombs were suddenly hurled
from the topmost gallery into tue midst
of the stalls on the floor of the house.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
One of the bombs exploded with ter
rible report, which shook the theater 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 a lady,
from whence it rolled harmlessly to the
floor.
The explosion of the bomb caused a
scene of terror and confusion rarely wit
messed in a theater. The whole audience
rose to it's feet with horror and dismay,
hardly knowing what had happened, the
building ringing with shrieks of fear,
cries of pain, and eXclanations of ven
geance.
IN A CLOUD OF SMOKE AND DUST.
For the moment the Lyceo was filed
with smoke, dust, falling glass and
plaster, causing a horrible, rattling
din, which added to the horrors of the
situation, and which increased the feel
ing of terror and wild panic, which
animated the vast audience. The
terrified crowd fearing that at
any moment another bomb might be
all sense of control. All regard for
women and children seemed to vanish in
those moments of fearful, Save qui
pout," (save who can,) and there was
fierce, mad hustling rush for the door,
men and women iercely fighting with
each other as they crushed weaker ones
beneath their feet in the effort to escape
from the dynamite shaken theater, leav-
ing the wounded and dying behind them,
tended by only few of the braver heads
who remained faithful to their dear ones.
In this mad rush many old people and
children were severely injured through
being trampled under foot, while others
were severely bruised and crushed by the
Outpouring crowd.
Thus, in very few minutes, compara-
lively, the theater was emptied except of
the dead and injured
FIFTEEN CORPsEs FOUND.
The stalling presented a terrible sight
The part where the boom exploded was
mass of splintered wreckage amid which
lay a number of dead bodies, some of them
so terribly mangled as to De beyond recog-
milton. When the wreckage was in some
degree cleared away it was found that
ntteen dead bodies, of which six were
those of men and nine the corpses of
women. The bodies of the unfortunate
ladies lay close together, their bright
colored eveningldresses, laces and jewelry,
gloves, hats and bonnets and other
6 hnery drenched in blood and torn in the
most fearful manner.
1t was reported soon after the examina-
tion of the dead began, that a large pro-
portion of those killed belonged to one
family, who had taken a number of
tickets, it is presumed, forming theater
q party in honor of the birthday of one of
those lying there, shattered to death by
the anarchist bomb.
MANY WOUNDED.
AT some distance from the fatal spot
where the fifteen dead bodies lay beneath
the wreckage were groaning in agony
many ladies and gentlemen who had been
wounded by splinters of wood, pieces of
glass and fragments of iron. OF those
wounded several were so seriously hurt
they may not recover from the effects of
the explosion.
The doctors, who had been hastily sum
moned by the police. arrived in quick sue
cesslon, and Immediately commenced a
careful examination of the victims of this
IatesC horrible outrage on the part of the
anarchists.
s OThen the dead were removed and laid
together, and the wounds of those who
were more seriously hurt were attended
10 by the physicians.
THREE KILLED ON THE STAIRS.
The stairs and corridors were next
searched for dead and wounded people
VINO fell victims to the terrible rush for
4 Ghe doors, which followed the explosion
Cpon the stairs and in the corridors
tnree persons were found lying dead, and
large number of seriously injured people
We're picked up
Throughout the night the theater was
surrounded by dense crowd of people,
VINO packed the Rambla do Capuchinos to
yne utmost, and who were with difficulty
kept back by a strong body of police. 1t
seemed, from the appearance of the
96Ifeets that the whole OF the population of
barcelona was out of DOORS and many
We're the expressions of bitter indigna-
'loh from all sides against the anarchists.
THE GOVERNMENT HELPLESS.
But while the people are indignant and
madIy incensed at the dynamite bomb
outrage, following so closely upon the at
Tempt made by Pallas to take the life Of
HdpUaln General Martinez Campos, there
Is \, universal feeling of CONSERVATION at
sne helplessness Of the government in this
emergency. All the houses inhabited by
suspected anarchists have been searched
Gnu several arrests have been made.
1h.Iong the first arrests were those of an
I.aLan named Saldani and F'renchman
ndlneo Aragin. IL is presumed that the
SIudl DOmD thrOWer escaDed and that the