The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-14
DROPS BOMB FROM ELEVATED
1T EXPLODES AND INJURIES TWO
WOMEN AND A BOY.
Conclusion 10 Terrinc and the whose Neigh
borhood 10 shaken-Freut Of Cisar
store blow In md the stock Scattered
Thrown From Second Avenue Train.


store BlownI In and the stock Scattered
Thrown From second Avenue Train.
A bomb thrown from a Second avenue
elevated train window at II o'clock last
night exploded in front of Nathan Brode's
cigar store at 1881. injuring two women
n a boy and doing damage to property
in the neighborhood.
The last car Of the train was just passing
Brode's store. which il only a door or two
from Eighty-ffth street, when the bomb
was thrown. 1t came from one Of the last
and Annie Newman. both Of whom live
above the cigar store. were standing in the
street near the entrance to the building.
They saw the bomb leave the window.
but it appeared harmless enough to them.
II was wrapped up in a paper bag, and AZ
II came down through the air the bag looked
as IL 1t might contain the remains Of a lunch
or some other refuse.
The bag hit the sidewalk about five feet
from the spot where the women were stand
ing. There was a fash and then a terrific
explosion. which hurled the two women
to the sidewalk. The windows Of the cigar
store were blown in and the counter inside
was knocked over by the conclusion. The
stock Of the store was scattered all around
and Brode himself was on the floor in the
midst of it.
. Next 70 the Brode store in front Of 1888
is a fruit stand run by Tony Borsi, an
Italian. John Trafidonto, IS years old.
who was employed as q helper, was stand
ing near the two women. and he also was
hurled to the street. The fruit was scat
tered about. but the bomb landed too far
away from the stand to do any serious
harm. Windows in several OF the buildings
across the avenue were broken by the con-
cussion.
The explosion made a heavy smoke cloud.
and in the confusion somebody turned In a
fire alarm. A great crowd collected and
the reserves from the East Eighty-eighth
street station we're called out.
Mrs. Silberer and Miss Newman we're
carried into the house in a s~emi-consciouS
condition. The former was badly cut about
the hands, and Miss Newmans face and
hands were cut. The middle finger Of her
tkht Adhu Wdc ditloSt 1hto
boy had cut all over his body. He was
taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, but the
two women were attended by the hospital
surgeons at their homes.
The injuries were caused by flying pieces
Of iron and sharp bits Of stone. Appar-
emily the bomb cover was Of iron and packed
with pieces Of crushed stone. The police
were not able to say whether II contained
dynamite or ni~troglyoerine. but probably
the former. The bomb raised hob with
the sidewalk where it struck.
Two detectives from the East Eighty
eighth street station house were standing
near by when the explosion occurred, but
the thought didn't seem to occur to either
of them that il would be a good thing to
telephone ahead and ave h train held up.
The police say, however, that would have
done no good, as the bomb thrower I'M
doubtedly left at the first station.
The police believe that the bomb was
aimed at the Italians fruit stand. The
owner Of the stand declared, however, that
no demands for money had ever been made
on him and that he had no enemies. Brode
told the police that he could not think Of
any one who would want TO harm him.
Some Of the police we're inclined to ex-
plain the explosion on the theory that it
was merely a careless jest or the work Of a
drunken Italian. They said that the
Italians in Harlem had been holding one Of
their saint day festivals and that it was
possible that The bomb was one that had
been left over from the celebration and
had been dropped in the street just for fun"
The police pointed out that the Italians
were great for making their fireworks.
They didn't explain. though. how it was
that the sharp pieces Of stone and bits of
ron came to be in the celebration bomb"