Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-11-19
BOMB ExPE0DES in ST.
PETERS; PANIC ENSUES

ed to his holiness, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
]. McClockey, of Philadelphia and
Mr.. Paul S. King, OF New York, who
noticed that the pore was pale and
labored under some emotion.
After this reception, the pope pro-
ceeded to the hall of the consistory,
where he received about 200 persons,
including twenty students of the
South American college, to whom he
delivered short address.
None of the persons knew anything
about the explosion. Signor Vassi-
mini, Italian minister of finance, was
eating lunch at the cafe Arrange when
he heard the news. He Immediately
where a number of authorities in
Guiding Count Camille Pecci, a nephew
of Leo XIII and commandant of the
Palatine guard, had assembled
The explosion produced no alarm
outside the basilica, the sound being
taken by everyone for the noon DAY
gun, but by afternoon the news was
known all over the city and a stream
OF people went through the church to
view the result Of the explosion.
There is a certain nervousness in
the city, and people are apt to mag
Nifty the events. This was exempli-
fled this afternoon when the explos-
ion of a fire cracker caused con-
siderable excitement and alarm, peo-
pie fearing another bomb outrage. II
soon was discovered that the cracker
had been set of by boy as a joke.
Contents Of the Bomb.
Every piece of the bomb that could
be found was gathered up by the po-
lice and carefully examined. The
bomb evidently consisted of a large
tin box bound tightly together with
wire of two sizes. It must have con-
tanned more than two pounds Of gum
powder and three pounds of nails.
and some were seven inches
long and so heavy that the force of
the explosion threw them only a short
distance. The, nails were enveloped
In newspapers dated November 16 and
II. proving that the bomb was pre-
pared either yesterday or today.
1 Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal
secretary of state, was in the boregia
at work with his private secretary at
noon and did not hear the explosion.
The rumor having spread abroad that
the pope intended to visit st. Peters
today to pray before the tomb Where
the outrage was committed drew an
exceptionally large crowd to the basil
lica. The rumor was unfoundei for
only Cardinal Rampo!la entered with
the procession.
Feeling 10 Intense.
A three days prayer will be cele-
brated In all the churches in sorrow
of this offense to religion. This
bomb makes the third anarchist out
rage in Italy in four days. the other
two being the murder of Professor
Rossi in Naples yesterday and the
explosion of bomb in front of the
cafe Aragno in this city on November
IA. The attempt of Today has caused
deep seated and universal horror ana
indignation on account of the locality
selected by the miscreants and the
resentment OF the people is very great.
st. Peters Is the greatest basilica in
Christendom. It took $50 years to
make the building what it is today
The commitment of such an outrage
IN such place has called forth UNI
limited northumberland characterized
as proving that the perpetrators of
the crime were act,i..ted by feelings
worse than those which moved the
vandals. OF history.
The theory is held that this attempt
was not directed against the papacy
but rather a challenge to society in
general by attacking religion, the mos:
sacred institution of the people. N