The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-07
KILLING
KING ALFONSO AND BRIDE WERE
OBJECTS OF AN ASSiSSIN'S
WRATH.-THEY BOTH
ESCAPED INJURY.
Celebration of Marriage Festivities
stopped by Appalling Tragedy
Sixteen Killed and Large
Number Wounded.

Madrid, Spain, May 31.-The pub
| lie rejoicings over the marriage OF
/ King Alfonso and Princess Victoria
/ had a terribly dramatic sequel at
$50 o'clock this afternoon, when a
bomb thrown from an upper window
Iof a building along the line OF the
marriage procession exploded with
deadly effect near the coach occupied
by the king and queen. Providen-
TALLY King Alfonso and Queen Vic
toria escaped by an electric wire de-
fecting the bomb, but at least sixteen
persons, most of them of the personal
and military escort of the royal pair,
were killed, and many others were
injured The following are the
killed: Capt. Barrosa, commanding
part of the kings escort; Lieut..
Reysient, Lieut.. Prendergast, six
soldiers, Marquise of Colosa and her
daughter, Don Antonio Calvo and his
.six-year-old niece, Jose Sola, Luis
Fonseca, and one royal groom who
was leading a horse drawing the
coach carrying the king and queen.
Several of those killed were stand
ing on the balcony of the house from
which the bomb was thrown.
The 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
NJoxv fn JoT- do
sires. The procession had just pass
ed through Mayor street and was
about to turn into the esplanade lead
ing to the palace when an explosion
shook the buildings in the vicinity,
stunning a number of people and
throwing the cortege into inextrica-
BILE confusion.
The royal coach was brought to a
sudden stop by the shock, officers and
soldiers of the escort falling to the
ground about the eQuerry and horses
that had been killed. The screams
of the terrified multitude, mingled
with the groans of the dying. 1t was
Immediately seen that the royal
coach was intact, except as it had
been damaged by flying splinters.
King Alfonso alighted and assisted
Queen Victoria down. They entered
another coach and were driven swift
ly to the palace.
All this happened so quickly that
the people away from the immediate
vicinity were not aware of the trag-
edy, and continued to acclaim their
sovereigns. Soon there appeared the
empty royal coach, with two horses
and the others spattered with
blood, several of them bleeding from
The grooms and drivers
looked deathly pale in the spangled +
uniforms.
Then came a boy shouting that
bomb had been thrown at the king
The appearance of the king and queen .
in coach brought out delirious ova-
tions. The fact was recognized that .
The sovereigns had been spared.
In the meantime the scene of the .
-ragedy presented a horrible specta-
cle, with dead men and horses lying
about, literally torn to pieces In
.ense excitement prevailed, the mob
invading the streets while the guards
sought to maintain order and block
he approaching streets. The bodies
we're wrapped up in blankets and re-
moved on litters. The wounded were
aiken to hospitals in ambulances.
The pavement was covered with
blood, and the upper stories of the
buildings nearest were spattered with
t. The place from which the bomb
vas thrown is a boarding house. The
chamber from which the missile was
lurled was taken May p by a man *
rom Barcelona giving the name of I
1oral. When the police surrounded /
he house the man attempted to es-
ape, but was captured. Another !
nan escaped over the roofs of the &
louses. /