The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-01
KING AND QUEEN ESCAPE
BUT BLOOD is SPAT TERED
ON ALL SIDES OF THEM
Screams Of Terrified Multitude Minele
With Groans of the Dying, and In
the Confusion Only One Of
the conspirators Is
Caught.

Madrid, May 3.-The public reJolcmgs
over the marriage of King Alfonso and
Princess Victoria had a terrible dramatic
sequel at 2;sO o clock this afternoon as a
porap thrown from an upper window
ploded with deadly effect near the coach
occupied by the King and Queen.
Providentially King Alfonso and Queen
Victoria escaped by an electric wire de-
iecting the bomb but at least sixteen
persons, most of them of the personal
and military escort, and the others spec
tators, were killed. Many others were in-
jured. The following were killed:
The Dead.
Captain Parrosa. commanding part of
the Kings escort.
Lieutenant Reysient-
Lieutenant Pendergast,
Six soldiers
The Marquise of Cclosa.
Her daughter.
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His niece, aged 6 Years.
Jose Sola, military
Luis Fonseca.
One royal groom who was leading a
horse drawing the coach carrying the
King and Queen.
Several of those killed were standing
on the balcony of the house from which
the bomb was thrown.
About T. Enter Palace.
The explosion occurred just as the royal
couple were about to enter the palace.
The route of the cortege had been divert
ed from Arsenal street to Mayor street,
owing to popular desires.
The procession had just passed through
Mayor street and was about to turn In
to the Esplanade leading to the palace
when an explosion shook the buildings
y in the vicinity, stunning a large number
of people and throwing the cortege into
inextricable 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
Royal Arch Was Intact
1t was Immediately seen that the royal
coach was intact, except as it had been
damaged by flying splinters. King AL
fonso Immediately alighted and assisted
Queen Victoria out of the carriage. They
then entered another coach and were
driven swiftly to the palace. All this
happened so quickly that the people away
from the immediate vicinity were not
aware of the tragedy Soon, however.
there appeared the empty royal coach
with two borses missing and the others
spattered with blood. several of them
bleeding from wounds. The grooms and
drivers looked deathly pale in the SPAN
gled uniforms Then came a boy shout
ing that a bomb had. been thrown at
. the King The appearance of the King
and Queen In coach brought out de-
lirious ovation. The fact was recognized
that the sovereigns had been spared.
Horrible Spectacle Presented.
In the meantime the scene of the trag-
edy presented horrible spectacle with
dead men and horses lying about literally
torn to pieces. Intense excitement pre-
vailed the mob invading the streets while
the guards sought to maintain order and
block the approaching streets. The bodies
were wrapped up in blankets and removed
on litters while the wounded were taken
to hospitals in ambulances. The pave
ment was covered with blood and the
upper stories of the buildings nearest were
shattered with it.
Nhe place from which the bomb was
E.own IS a boarding house. The cham
from which the missile hurled
5 taken May % by a man from Carce-
ha giving the name Duran. When the
yolice surrounded the house the man at
tempted to flee. but was captured. An
kther man escaped over the roofs of the
louses.
May Have Been More Than One.
According to an official statement 1t is
were thrown. The statement continues
that 1t is impossible to ascertain at pres
ent the author of the outrage although
1t is known that Catalonian named
Manuel Duran took an apartment from
(which the bomb was thrown May %. pay
fne in advance with a hundred peseta