The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-11-07

other, Which Took Fire.
Chicago, Nov. 3.-Dynamite was used
to wreck a cottage home in Chicago
Heights early yesterday morning. Two
persons were instantly killed and nine
others were injured. Joseph Cordeck,
the father of the household, was blown
to bits by the explosion, and a like fate
befel his infant daughter. His wife,
sleeping at his side, escaped with her
life, and though she was terribly hurt,
halted long enough to snatch one of her
sleeping babies from the path of the
flames that followed the explosion. Six
other children, sleeping in another por-
ton of the house, were buried under
the roof and walls of the cottage, but
managed to eXtricate themselves be-
fore the fire reached them. A neigh
boring house was destroyed by the
flames and one of the occupants in
jured by a bit of the bomb.
Charles Smith, formerly a lodger in
the Cordeck household, is in the GUS
tody of the police suspected Of being
responsible for the tragedy that reused
the residents of the town just as dawn
was breaking. He denies his guilt, but
the police see a possible double motive
for his interest in the affair that he had
quarreled with Cordeck over the loss Of
som money and in his attentions to
the eldest daughter of the family, who
had ignored his suit and was about to
marry another man.
Those dead are:
Joseph Cordeck, As years old, asleep
in room just over spot where bomb was
placed; body dismembered by explosion
and then burned in the ruins of his
home.
Lucy Cordeck, 2 years old, in bed
with her father; remains disfigured be-
yond recognition.
The injured:
Mrs. Lucy Cordeck, Sc years old:
portion of right side blown away and
flesh torn by portions of the bomb;
brought to Chicago and cared for at the
Presbyterian hospital, where the physi-
clans advance some hope of her recov-
cry.
Della Cordeck, 2 months old; face and
head bruised by bits of flying glass and
body bruised by falling walls; rescued
by her mother.
Helen Cordeck, 4 years old; head
bruised and enkle wrenched by falling
roof.
Josephine Cordeck, z years old; arms
and chest bruised in collapse of walls,
Peter Cordeck, 10 years old; severe
scalp wounds.
Emil Cordeck, 10 years old; both legs
injured by falling timbers and face cut
by broken glass.
Edward Cordeck, 10 years old; back
and shoulders injured.
Mamie Cordeck, II years old; severe
ly shaken by explosion and slightly
bruised about the body.
Justin Camolawisky, 40 years old
! next door neighbor to the Cordecks;
head cut by particle of bomb covering
= which flew through his bedroom win
dow.
!, The Wrecked Home.
The Cordeck home, a modest little
= affair, one story in height, stands mid
way between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets in Fifth avenue. The father
and mother, with Lucy and Della, oc
. cupied beds in a Don off the parlor
in the northeast corner of the building
/ In the bedrooms to the rear the othel
children were quartered. For sewers
months there had been a feud between
Cordeck and Charles Smith, II one
the trouble had brought them into tn
police court, but none of the residents
of the suburb had ever considered tn
quarrel q serious matter. Saturda.
night Emil Cordeck discovered that
= board had been pulled away from tn
+ woodwork surrounding the low posts OF
which the cottage was held up from tn
ground, but his parents gave this littl
> attention, and retired as usual about i
o'clock.
e The bomb was set of just at
o'clock Sunday morning. The assas
. sin crept under the house through tn
!, space where the board had been tori
. away, and laid the internal machine di
Il rectly beneath the floor of the bedroom
d where Cordeck and his wife were sleep
D. ing. A long fuse was attached to the IN
'. strument of death and a match applied
= The explosion literally shook the cot
u tage apart. The floor of the front bed
S room was thrown up until it brok
!, through the ceiling above, and the be
t and other furniture caught fire. Cordec
and his daughter Lucy was blown hal
U the length of the house, but his wifi
was thrown out of the bed n into
3 corner of the room. She saw the wall
~toppling about her and the roof dror
ping down, and stopping long enough t
y pick I'D the youngest child, she spran
/ through a breach which had been mad
) in the wall and gained the lawn. Ther
she lost consciousness.
II The children. in the rear were rou;
ed by the explosion and found the
! beds half buried beneath the Wreckae
l. of the house. Smoke and fire were 70
1t ling over the debris and they struggle
e, frantically to eXtricate themselves bt
IL fore the flames reached them. tn
sound of the bursting bomb awakene
the whole town and the fire whistle
sounded the alarm. Men and womel
- half clad, ran through the streets to tn
scene. The wind carried the fiamt
&c across a lawn to the cottage of JUST
Camolawicky and destroyed this built
ing too.
When the police arrived they decide
l. to arrest Smith, who lived a short oil
lance away. They found him in be-
n, apparently fast asleep, but his room
N mate, Thomas Kobilinski, declared tn;
he had entered the house only a fe
. minuteS before the arrival of the of