The Portland daily press., 1896-06-01
A CRUEL DEED.
House in Veazie Blown Up By
Dynamite.
A WOMAN FATALLY INJURED BY
THE EXPLOSION.

Boy Blown Through Second Story Window
House Bore Bad Reputation and
Crime May Have Been Work of Regu-
lators.
Friday night a house on Lemon street,
in Veazie, was visited by marauders who
exploded heavy charge Of dynamite uns
der corner Of the building, which con-
tanned several persons. Mrs. Nellie Don
ahue was so severely injured that she will
probably die; her elder son, Allie, was
bio wn through window to the ground
below and was badly bruised; the glass
in all the houses in the vicinity of the
place was smashed, and at least one man
was violently pitched out of bis bed.
There is no clue to the identity Of the
perpetrators of the deed.
Mrs. Nellie Donatue lives In Veazie in
vim johnson; with her are her two boys,
Allie and Floyd. Her husband has been
dead for some years, having met a violent
death In New Hampshire. Mrs. Donahue
is about 35 years of age
The neighborhood is a good one; it is
made up OF clean white houses with tidy
front yards and is pleasant to look upon
seesthe river flowing bysbelow, s.and just
now the apple blossoms are blooming
white in almost every part Of it. The
johnson house sits on the left hand side
of the street as you go down toward the
river. back from the road little way; it
is not a neat place, and is the one bit Of
unpleasant color in the whole neighbor
| hno has M hnnv fnd In, Ian
time, and is very shabby in consequence.
At 80 O'Clock on Friday night most
of the folks in the Lemon street neighbor-
hood were in bed. 1t was exactly at that
hour that
A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION
broke the air and started men to their
feet just in time to hear shower of
broken glass fall to the ground, while
woman's agonized, frightened shrieks
a dded to the confusion.
Instantly men were out of DOORS The
Donahue house was a sorry sight. In
the west corner of the house, just Mt the
underpinning, there was jagged hole of
a foot or two in diameter, from which
the dust of the awful discharge was still
| issuing. Not light Of glass remained
in the window, ana every sash and sill
ground in 'front.' of the house lay small
boy, torn and bleeding, and from within
| came the muffied means of a woman fast
sinking into state OF in5ensibility which
will probably mean death. Nobody but
the frightened neighbors were IN sight;
there was small means Of explaining the
mystery.
A quick Investigation of the premises
by man who has had good deal to do
with dynamite and other high powder
explosives, served to discover the manner
of the explosion. Several sticks OF dyna-
| mite had been placed underneath the
| west corner of the house, and, exploding,
had wrought the damage. the miraen-
| lous fact that the house still stood was
explained by the existence of a cellar,
deep and empty, under the house, which
gave vent to the explosive and saved
total destruction.
Mrs. Donahue was wakened at the
first shook of the explosion and, bewil-
dered, ran down stairs to fall fainting in
to the arms of one of the men, who ar
rived on the soene almost Immediately
following the occurrence. She was at
once placed on a couch and DR.. Hamil-
ton, of Orono, was sent for. On his ar
rival he found the woman in a state of
extreme nervous prostration resulting
from the shook; she had suffered no in
jury to her body.
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body of Allie Donahue was picked up;
he was not much more than stunned, but
his hands were all torn and lacerated
where they had ploughed up the gravel
of the yard. He had been sleeping in
O room in the second story and was
BLOWN OUT OF BED
and straight through the window into
the open air. That he was not more Sc
riously hurt IL matter of mystery. The
other occupants of the house were not
injured; in the rear Of tho esta b1ishment
Mrs. Finley and her father were staying
but they eSoanad harm.