The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-06
BOMB WRECKS BANK. KILLS. AND MAINS
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the great dome Of the building Iron bars
I bent under the force, and grecnbacks
/ fiuttered about everywhere.
Elevator men ran their cars 20 the first
floor and fed From every floor Of the
building men and girls poured down the
stairs in panic, trampling upon each other
/ In terror, From the bank. over bodies Of
dead and injured. fed scores Of depositors
and employees. bleeding. their clothes torn
or in rags
Outside. almost an equal panic rcigned.
| Before any one else the floating element
Of crooks VINO infest the financial district
recovered their wits and grasped the sit
uatiOn almost before the echoes Of the
/ explosion had died down, and while the
! teTrOr-crazed crowds were pouring out.
there was a rush of crooks for the inside.
Money Scattered Everywhere.
Bank notes were lying all about. They
were scattered over dead and dying, they
were wedged in between bars, and chung
/ TO shattered windows Il was arrich har-
/ vest for those who would garner Stimuli
taneous with this rush Of crooks the po-
/ lice appeared
They drove back the crowds with clubs
and closed all entrances. Inside and out
side it was a CHASTITY sight
Steele had hurled the bomb straight into
"a corner of a vault which contained $50
100000 in securities. In the immediate vi
entity Of the spot where the bomb was
thrown it was not destruction which was
wrought, but humiliation. II was diff
cult 10 find even splinters of the wood
work which made up the walls Of the
cashiers office. a great brick and gran
tie fireplace against the wall of the cor
ridOr, where the fanatic stood, and a mar
bic clock fixed in the manteI. were reduced
to debris. Even the bricks had complete
y disappeared. In one corner were parts
of the bodies Of McLear and Steele out
side were other parts.
No instance showed more strikingly the
awful consequence of the explosion than
the condition Of the cashiers watch,
which was in his pocket, and the keys car
Tied by the bOmb-thrOwer- The keys were
torn oDen and twisted
Bodies Horribly MangIed.
Where Steele had stood there was a
/ big red spot The body was incredibly
mangled His legs were in one part of
/ the room, his arms in another, his body
and fragments Of his head We're some on
the inside and some out in Orriana street
McLear's body was in nearly as bad
shape 1t was impossible in some in
stances TO disentangle portions OF the
bodies Of slain and slayer
When the parts Of the bomb-thrower's
body were searched, in the presence of
Director Of Public Safety McKenley
there was found in one of the pockets
of the trousers bunch Of keys. some
twenty-five in number. On the plate on
the ring to which the keys were at
tached was the inscription. r. Steele,
Garner Iowa"
The keys were either all broken off by
the fearful force OF the explosion. OF else
bent out OF shape. Director McKenIey
on learning the name on the plate his
tened from the morgue TO the city hall
10 see about discovering the history Of the
man through police channels. It was
found that Steele had come from Garner
There he had been q drug salesman and
an Oil-T-ell blower. He had. besides, been
q policeman on the Chicago force. and
had been known to have been in touch
with the Emma Goldman-Bergmann cir
Gle Of anarchists He left Iowa five years
ago and went % Boston. Recently. he
came To Philadelphia but his means Of
living since that time are uncertain
Composition of Bomb.
The bomb which he used was simply a
cylindrical metal case. 4 member of
the famous powder manufacturing firm
Of the Du Points examined what was left
Of it. It had been made Of sheet tin.
about six inches in length and one and q
half inches in diameter. II contained
about six ounces of nitroglycerin-enough
soup the expert said, 10 have torn the
entire building from its foundation. but
for the fact that the high ceiling in the
bank and the many glass partitions gave
room 10 the force Of the explosion.
As a matter OF fact, the force Of the
explosion was not confined 20 the Bullitt
Building alone. Offices at the corner Of
Fourth and Harmony streets, recently
vacated by +. ". Clark & Co, were
wrecked The furnishings were torn
asunder and piled up in corners. The
plate glass windows were blown away, as
if 50 much paper. and Harmony street
was strewn with glass. The window in
the building occupied by the Liverpool
and London and Globe Insurance Com
pany. facing the bank on the south side
Of Harmony street, suffered. All windows
were broken and Office fixtures turned
tOpsy-turVy. A score Of other buildings
suffered propOrtiOnately.
The Fourth Street National Bank is
the largest national bank in Pennsyl-