Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-04-04
BOMB KILLS IN NY.
ASSASSINS SOUGHT LIFE OF
POLICE in Big CITY.
Russian Thug in Act of Hurting Deadly
Spheroid When 1t ExpIodes in Pub
lie Square of the City-AIarming In
cident Follows Dispersal of Meeting
of the Unemployed.

New York.-A red flag fiuttered in
Union square Saturday, and bomb
fell; two men lay dying in the peo-
pies Fairgrounds, and New York
awoke to the fact that 1t harbored
those prepared to give their lives in
armed resistance to constituted au-
thority.
The bomb was intended for the po-
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 score of
those who were massed in the vicinity.
Bomb throwing in the foreign set
Elements of the east side is rather
common occurrence, but for the first
time Saturday saw an engine of de-
struction openly and deliberately di-
rected against a squad of police. 1t |
was meant for Captain Reilly's squad |
of 20 men, and a longer or slower |
burning fuse would have proved an in |
strument of death for perhaps every |
man of the 81.
labor, or, more exactly, 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 a red flag was displayed. Sud
denly an order to clear the park was
hoIf Of thnD1
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 mob, fell into an Indifferent form
alton and marched about the square.
Having cleared the park of all but a
few apparently harmless men who oc-
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 threats. The police hast
ily 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. large
man kept at the others heels. Within
20 PAGES of the moving squad two men
halted and the smaller raised hand
in which was clasped a smoking bomb.
Even as he drew back to throw the
Aeapon 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 VI
the rear were injured, but no serious
". one of them being hit in the foot
by a piece of the bomb. 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 fiigh
from the square.
Many were injured as the mounted
police surrounded the injured an'
drove back the mob.
Assassn's Name.
Silverstein, the Union square bonn
thrower, according to bystander
said
81 did it because a policeman bea
me up"
Among the injured are two police
men. Immediately after the explosion
hurry call for ambulances was sen
TO half a dozen hospitals. When tn
ambulances rushed back to the hos
pital they had as occupant several IL
AMred policemen and some of the pal
ticipants in the demonstration VIII
had been injured by the bomb, or /
the clash with the police.
Silversteins body was literally tor
to pieces by the force of the explosion
The top of his head was ripped opel
both of his eyes were blown out, HI
face was terribly cut and mutilate'
and both hands had been blown o
at the wrists.