The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-06

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Philadelphia Jan. because his de-
mand for s5,090. TO be lent on the pic
lures Of relatives was refused. Robert
Steele. formerly q drug salesman Of
/ Garner, Iowa. threw bomb in the pres
/ ident's Office Of the Fourth Street Ma
tiOnal Bank to-day blowing the cashier
William 5. McLear and himself to frag-
ments. killing a negro porter. seriously
injuring sixteen persons wrecEing the
bank, and creating panic in the build
/ ing and in the deHsely settled neighbor-
! mood
| Immediately after the explosion there
was a bold attempt Of crooks 20 enter the
/ bank and TO get away with hundreds Of
! thousands Of dollars which lay scattered
about the floor. Before they could sue
ceed the uninjured employees and squads
o6 police, rushing from the city han and
| from all the station houses near by, drove
these men out and guarded every window
and entrance Of the building
/ Laden with nitroglycerin. the bomb ex-
ploded with such terrific force that par
titions desks, wooden walls and windows
were torn 10 splnters, bars broken and
twisted. and the bodies Of those within
/ torn to pieces. The dead are
Dead and Injured.
/ NJ. 4 McLEAR. the cashier OF the Fourth street
/ National Bank. home in st. Davis. lie came from
/ urgmiuent West Chester family. Blown 10 pieces.
ROBERT STEELE the bomb throEeT: blown %
pieces
/ CRUAIP WILLIAMS. 8 years Ct age. Of - South
Hutchinson street. negro porter of President Rush
ton. horribly msugled by fragments Of the bomb
eyes blown cut, scalp nearly torn on
The most seriously injured are:
Richard H. Rusht0n, president OF the
bank, shocked and cut.
William MaTight. sixteen years old, s2t
North Forty-third street. messenger at the
y bank He has fractured skull and viii
probably die
Driven Through sheet of Glass.
A. II. McIIhon. assistant TO McL.ea-. was
hurled over backward and his head driven
through a sheet of plate glass in parti-
ton.
J. H. Hofback, an assistant to second
vice president; badly cut about the face
and head by flying glass.
Harry Beck, watchman; cut about the
face and suffering from shock.
Halburt Smith, fourteen years Old, Of 81
Powell street, Gloucester, y. J.; employed
at the bank. cuts and bruises.
Thomas T. Rutter. Lansdale. Pa, frac-
tured skull and cuts on body; condition
serious
Joseph Barnholtz. clerk in foreign ex-
change department.
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twerty-four years old; fractured skull.
broken arm. and hand
Frank Lobold twenty-one years old.
bank clerk.
H Mercer. twenty years old. bank clerk
Harry Beck, messenger.
A : Dominica, bank clerk.
Besides these there were twenty more
b depositors and employees. who were cut
and injured by the faIling-ln Of the big
: glass dome Of the bank after the explo-
sion.
Police on Guard.
Nearly 300 police are on susrd tonight
r about the building. while there is another
large force within The vaults remain
: intact II was u.3o O'Clock when Steele
, entered the building There was the
e usual Saturday rush of depositors. and
, all about in that center of banking and
: stock exchange activity was the hustle
of the closing hour of the half holiday.
President Rushton was in his office
with John Bean. of Bean Brothers, bank
/. ers. Steele pushed in between them and
,,fsaid:
, I want S5.050. Here's nay security.
- He pushed in front of Rushton a small
t,,I,1 -srr,fr a1r
= pages and pointed to half a dozen men
and women.
p That's my family. he said. See
D their honest faces? Aren't they good for
q that amount
Orders Crank Put Out.
Rushton seeing he had TO do with
crank pushed back his chair and arose.
I'm too busy now" be said. Later
q III see you" lie went back toward the
entrance to the vaults and called Crump.
, the porter
: That's crank, there he said. Go
-' put him out
Listen said Crump ..He must be
+ bad crank Hear how he's talking TO Mr.
, | NIcDear.
: There came the sound of loud voices
D.. from the cashiers afE5ce, which adjoined
that OF the president Crump started out.
q He entered McLear's office and found
, Steele, having conical bundle in one
D hand. and in the other brandishing the
q album McLear. his face white. was near
I his desk. He turned TO Crump and began
. to speak
Before the first word could leave his
, lips. the negro porter spraHg aJ Steele.
Q At the same moment the man raised his
/, arm and hurled the conical bundle on the
floor At once there was a terrible eX-
J. plosi0n. McLear and Steele disappeared in
- | fragments. Their trunks were hurled
II against the iron grating of the windows
2, behind the cashiers desk and squeezed
through the bars. Crump fell into a mass
- Of splintered wood one hundred feet away.
= Whole building Rocked.
T., The whole building seemed TO rock
desks and partitions flew into fragments
men and women We're hurled about like
:; nine-pins. Down came in q rain Of glass
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