The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-06-01
BOMB Was HURLED.
King and Queen Of spain Saved by
an Electric Wire.
SIXTEEN ARE KILLED
Screams of the Multitude Mingled
With the 6roans Of the Dying
and the Excitement Va.
Something Awful.

MADRID, June 1.-The Iuhlic rei0ie.
fngs over the marriage of King Al.
fonso and Princess Victoria had a ter.
ribly dramatic sequel at 2 80 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon, as a bomb thrown
from an W ler window exploded with
deadly effect near the coach occupied
by the king and queen Providentiai.
~ King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
escaped by an electric light wire de-
flecting the bomb, but at leart sixteen
persons, most of them OF the personal
and military escort and spectators
were killed Many others were iniur.
ed The following are the killed.
captain Barros, commanding part OF
OF the kings escort
Lieutenant Reysient
Lieutenant Prendergagt,
Six soldiers.
Marquise Of Colosa and daughter
Don Antonio Calvo and his niece.
aged six years.
Jose Sofa, military
Luis Fonseca.
One royal groom who was leading
horse drawing the coach carving
the king and queen
Several of the killed were standing
on the balcony of the house from
which the bomb was thrown.
Inc explosion occurred just as the
royal couple were about to enter the
palace. The route of the cortege had
| been diverted from Arsenal street to
Mayor street, and was about to turn
| into the esplanade leading to the pal
ace when an explosion shook the
buildings IN the vicinity, stunning a
large number of people and Throwing
the cortege into ineXtricable confu.
| sion
The royal coach was brought to a
sudden stop bv the shock, officers and
| soldiers of the escort falling to the
ground. The screams of the terrIIied
multitude mingled with the gro,.ns OF
the dying
| 1t was Immediately seen that the
royal coach was intact except as il
had been damaged by flying splinters
King Alfonso alighted and assisted
Queen victoria down. They entered
another coach and were driven safel,
to the palach.
the people away from the immediat
vicinity were not aware of the ira,
coy, and continued to acclaim the
sovere1gns. Soon there appeared til
empty royal carriage with two hors,
missing and the others spattered wi
blood, several of them bleeding fro
wounds. The grooms and drivers loo
ed deathly pale in their spangled u
forms. Then came a boy shout
that bohb had been thrown at t
king.
The appearance of the king a.
queen in another coach brought O
delirious ovations.
In the meantime the scene of Ii
tragedy presented a horrible spect
Gle. with dead men and horses
Ing about literally torn to pieces. I
tense excitement prevailed. the nf
invading the streets, while the guar
sought to maintain order and block n
approaching streets. The bodies wer
wrapped up in blankets and remove
on ntters, while the wounded wer
taken to hospitals in ambulances. Tn
pavement was covered with blood, an,
the upper stories of the buildings near
est were spattered with it.
The place from which the bomb wa,
| tbtoNh Is i w 4dluE mouse. Iht
chamber from which the missile wa.
thrown was taken May % by a mar
from Barcelona giving the name OF
Duran. When the police surrounded
the house the man attempted To flee
but was captured. Another man es
capped over the roof OF the house
! According 10 an Official statement
/ II is not known whether one or more
| bombs were thrown. The statement
| continues that IL is Impossible to as.
certain the author Of the outrage. al
| though IL is known that a Californian
named Manuel Duran took an apart
ment in the house from which the
! bomb was thrown on May %. raviug
/ IN advance with q 5n0-Ueseta bin He
| was well dressed 81 elegant appear.
snce ana showed a fondu'ss for flow
] era
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bouquet was 0t polished steel bait
| q ..metre thiDh IL was thrown from
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