Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-04-11
ASSASSINS SOUGHT life OF
POLICE In Big CITY.
Russian Thug in Act of Hurting Deadly
Spheroid When It ExpIodes in Pub
lie Square of the City-AIarminq In
cident Follows Dispersal of Meeting
of the Unemployed.

Union square Saturday, and a bomb
fell; two men lay dying in the peo-
pies Fairgrounds, and New York
awoke to the fact that it harbored
those prepared to give their lives in
armed resistance to constituted au
thority
The bomb was intended for the DO
lice, who. with rough firmness, had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem-
ployed. 1t exploded prematurely in
the hands of the assassin, horribly
wounding him, killing his companion,
injuring slightly four policemen and
throwing to the ground a score of
those who were massed in the vicinity.
Bomb throwing in the foreign set
Elements of the east side is a rather
common occurrence, but for the first
time Saturday saw an engine of de-
struction openly and deliberately di-
rected against squad of police 1t
was meant for Captain Reilly's squad
of 20 men, and longer or slower
burning fuse would have proved an in
strument of death for perhaps every
man of the 81.
A labor, or, more exactly, a labor
less meeting, with police sanction, had
been advertised to be held at the park.
In the thousands that gathered were
many of riotous disposition, large
number wore red hats, and here and
there red flag was displayed Sud
denly an order to clear the park was
given, and the $50 police, half of them
mounted, charged the jeering, hooting
crowds arriving in time to drive them
back to the streets of the square cir
cling the park In the wide streets
the crowds, fast assuming the nature
of a mob, fell into an Indifferent form
alton and marched about the square
Having cleared the park of all but
few apparently harmless men who &C.
cupied the benches, the police content
ed themselves with keeping the parad-
ers moving. Encouraged the process
sion grew; shouts of derision and
oaths directed at the police filled the
air. and then, as though by prearrange-
ment, strains of the Marseillaise rose
from 10000 throats. The police hast
lily reinforced, held themselves in re-
straint. Captain Reilly's squad, which
has been stationed at the east side of
the square, started at a double quick
pace, two abreast, across the park.
AS they neared the fountain that
marks the center of the grounds a
slightly built man darted out from near
the statute of George Washington and
ran towards the officers, whose backs
were turned to their pursuer. A large
man kept at the others heels. Within
20 PAGES of the moving squad two men
halted and the smaller raised a hand
in which was clasped smoking bomb.
Even as he drew back to throw the
weapon it exploded The shock that
shook the skyscrapers of the square
threw a score of people to the ground.
Then the assassin and companion
fell, the latter dead, with his breast
torn out. The bomb thrower still lived
but his right hand had been shot off,
both of his eyes were gouged out, and
his skull and shoulder were fractured.
The four policemen who brought up
the rear were injured, but no serious
ly, one of them being hit in the foot
by a piece of the bomb A panic fol
lowed the explosion, and the thousands
that surrounded the park crushed to-
gether as perhaps half of the number
rushed toward the scene of the killing,
while as many more turned in flight
from the square.
Many were injured as the mounted
4. t.xt. Il
drove back the mob.
Assassin's Name.
Silverstein the Union square bomb
thrower, according to bystander,
said
Il did it because a policeman beat
me up"
Among the injured are two police
men. Immediately after the explosion
hurry call for ambulances was sent
to half dozen hospitals. When the
ambulances rushed back to the hos
pital they had as occupant several in
jured policemen and some of the par
Elephants in the demonstration who
had been injured by the bomb, or in
the clash with the police.
Silverstein's body was literally torn
to pieces by the force of the explosion
The top of his head was ripped open,
both of his eyes were blown out his
face was terribly cut and mutilated,
and both hands had been blown on
at the wrists.