The evening times., 1898-11-24
TEE MANY LIVES
OF RUSSIA'S Gar
Plots of Nihilist Assassins
That Failed.
HIDEANDSEEK WITH DEATH
Latest Attempt to Murder the
Marked Monarch.
Details of the Recent Plot to Wreck
the Imperial Railway Train
just Published.

Elbng, Russia, Noy. A.-Unknown per-
sons, supposedly Nfhilists, have mad
another attempt to destroy Nicholas II
/ Gar of Russia.
| A railroad switchman's courage and
prompt action frustrated the plot anl
saved the life of the Gear. as well as
the lives of the Czarina and the thirty
| or forty people comprising the royal en-
| tourage.
Though the attempted assassinatioI
| dates back to the Cars return from a
| visit to his father-in-law, the King o:
Denmark. fortnight ago. information OF
it only leaked out yesterday through the
| whisperings of a nurse in the hospital in
which the brave switchman Is pat ent
The Car and CZarina returned from
Copenhagen over the West Prussiaa
Railway, travelling on a special train ii
five saloon cars and three luggage vans.
Between Boehmenhofen and Tagdn, n
West Prussia, the railway line iuns
through deep ravine or cut. Overhang-
ing the railway lines and barely high
enough to clear the top of a saloon car
is bridge. The woud-be assassins had
chosen this spot. isloated from any car
riaSe road or footpath, TO blockade the
tracks.
BY means OF massive timbers and
large powders the wreckers had con-
structed a barricade which was braced
against the bridge at the top and rested
between the track sleepcrs below. It's
construction must have taken considera-
Ia trpa md k,.J
passed fifteen minutes before the barri-
have been at work.
Ten minutes before the Cars special
train was due a switchman patroIling
the line discovered the obstruction. He
had no time to summon assistance. no
means Of signaling the incoming special
BY almost superhuman effort the man
succeeded in tearing down the heavy tim
bers and casting them and the great
powders off the line and into a ditch
He was badly hurt by one OF the tim
bers falling and striking him. The brave
switchman was only able to drag him
self from the rail where he lay half
stunned when the Cars train thunder
ed by.
Trackmen discovered the injured switch
man lying among the debris of the bar
ricade an hour later. The Cars train
had passed Lagorn by that time, none of
It's occupants having any knowledge OF
the peril they had escaped. The switch
man was brought TO the hospital here.
and silence was enjoined upon the men
who found him.
rigid police investigation which is
still in progress, has thus far failed of
discovering any of the persons implicated
in the attempt 10 assassinate the Car
and Czarina
Car Nicholas has many times escaped
the hand of the assassin. The record of
the attempts made against his life follow;
december ?, 1S95-Bomb thrown AT the
Car in ST. Petersburg 5I
September g. lS96-Nihiiists planned to
Kill the Car by pordite explosion as
he drove through a London street.
october S. lS96-Bonb exploded behind
the Cars carriage In the Place de la
ConcOrde, Paris.
May 2G, lSS1-YOung artisan attempted
to shoot and stab THE Car as he drove
IN the Tsarkoe-Selo Park, ST. Petersburg
May 3. lS9S-Discovery of Nihilist plot
to blow up the Tsarskoe-Seo Cathedral.
St Petersburg, during the conservation
ceremonies
June %, lSSS-Attempt was made to poi
son the Car and CZarirla during a visit
To Vienna.
September Z. 1S9S-Nihilists attempted to
XIII the Car in Moscow
September 2S, 1SSS-Nihilists mined a
street In Warsaw for the purpose of blow
ing up the Gar.