Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-06-07
NEARLY A SCORE OF PERSONS
KILLED OR WOUNDED.
MANY OF ROYAL ESCORT
Bomb Is Hurled From Upper Window
but Its Course Is DETECTED by
Electric Wire-Horrible Scenes
Several Arrests Made-King and
Queen Calm.

joicings over the marriage of King
Alfonso and Princess Victoria had a
terribly dramatic sequel at 2:3O yes
terday afternoon, when a bomb
thrown from an upper window ex-
ploded with deadly effect near the
coach occupied by the king and queen.
Providentially, King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria escaped by an cleo.
trio wire DETECTING the bomb, but at
least 16 persons, most of them be-
ing OF the personal and military es-
cort and other spectators, were killed.
Many others were injured.
The dead:
Captain Barrosa, commanding part
of the kings escort
Lieutenant Reysient.
Lieutenant Prendergast
Six soldiers
Marquise of Golosa.
Her daughter.
Don Antonio Calvo.
His niece, aged 6.
Jose Sofa, 70 years of age.
Lus Fonseca.
One royal groom, who was leading
the horse drawing the coach carrying
the king and queen.
The explosion occurred as the royal
couple was about to enter the palace.
The route of the cortege had been d.
verified from Arsenal street to Mayor
street, owing to the popular desire.
The procession had just passed
through Mayor street and was about
to turn into the esplanade leading to
the palace when an explosion shook
the buildings in the vicinity, stunning
large number of people and throw.
ing the cortege into inextricable con-
fusion
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. 1t was
Immediately seen that the royal coach
was intact, EXCEPT as it had been dam
aged by flying splinters. King Alton
SO Immediately alighted and assisted
Queen Victoria out OF the carriage.
They then entered another coach and
were driven swiftly to the palace.
Both were calm.
The bomb, which was concealed in
bouquet, was of polished steel. half
a centimeter thick. The house from
which it was thrown, according to
some reports, belongs to the queen
mother, having been bequeathed to
her by philanthropist and being
the only house she owns in Madrid.
The house is opposite the Church of
the Sacrament and the captain gen.
erals residence. The scene of the
tragedy presented horrible spectacle
with dead men and horses lying
about, literally torn to pieces.
From 2 until O'Clock in the even
ing 1t was impossible for anyone to
get near the house whence the bomb
was thrown. The house is next door
to the Italian embassy and about a
quarter-mile from the royal palace.
Many arrests have been made,
among them Manuel Duran, a Cata-
lonian, who Is Believed to have been
the principal conspirator.
The Marriage.
The tragic event caused the bril-
liancy of the wedding to be temporar-
lily forgotten. Some of the wedding
features, however, were such as to fix
themselves indelibly upon the minds
of the spectators. One of the pref
test sights was the tiny Prince Al
fonso, actual heir to the throne, who
accompanied the king. The little
orphan of the Princess of -ie Asturias
was clad in knickerbockers of white
silk that reached only to the kings
waist
King Alfonso reached the altar
long before Princess Victoria. The
king twice arose on the throne and
gazed steadfastly toward the door.
Hardly an arms length away was the
American special envoy, Frederick W.
Whitridge, who through chance or de-
sign occupied the most favorable po-
sition of any in that assemblage.
With him sat General Dalstein.
French envoy, and alongside of him
the envoy of Morocco, a huge Othello
swathed in white, and next Chinese
mandarin. Republican simplicity
never was more strikingly exempli-
fed. European courts were repre-
scented by princes, most of them heirs
to thrones. while France, the United
States and South and Central Ameri
can republics stood out with plain en-
voys.
As the ceremony closed King Al
fonso embraced his bride and her
mother. This glimpse of domestic
touch given by the presence of many
poor people In the galleries, who were
there by the kings REQUEST. made the
scene an effective one to which s.
melancholy sequel quickly succeeded
The wedding took place at noon In
the church OF San Jeronimo.