Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-03
BOMB KILLS IN NY.
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 clty-Alarmina In
eldent Follows Dispersal of Meeting
of the Unemployed.

of the Unemployed.
New York.-A red flag fluttered in
Union square Saturday, and 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 po-
lice, who, with rough f1rmness, 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 a 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 a riotous disposition, a large
number wore red hats, and here and
there a red flag was displayed. Sud
denly an order to clear the park was
1 given, and the $50 police, half of then
mounted, charged the jeering, hootinG
crowds, arriving in time to drive then
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 oc
cupied the benches, the police content
ed themselves with keeping the parao
ers moving. Encouraged, the process
sion grew; shouts of derision an
oaths directed at the police filled tn
air, and then, as though by prearrangt
ment, strains of the Marseillaise ros
from 10000 threats. The police has
lily reinforced, held themselves in re
straint Captain Reilly's squad, whic
has been stationed at the east side {
the square, started at a double quic
pace, two abreast, across the park.
AS they neared the fountain ths
marks the center of the grounds
slightly built man darted out from nea
the statute of George Washington an
ran towards the officers, whose back
. were turned to their pursuer. A lare
man kept at the others heels. With
:, 20 PAGES of the moving squad two me
halted and the smaller raised han
y in which was clasped smoking bonn
Even as he drew back to throw tt
, weapon it exploded. The shock tn;
= shook the skyscrapers of the squal
Q threw a score of people to the groun
Then the assassin and companiC
= fell, the latter dead, with his brea
. torn out. The bomb thrower still live
: but his right hand had been shot o
: both of his eyes were gouged out, al
4 his skull and shoulder were fracture
The four policemen who brought |
! the rear were injured, but no seriou
9 ly, one of them being hit in the TO
=. by a piece of the bomb. A panic IL
- lowed the explosion, and the thousan
II that surrounded the park crushed
- gether as perhaps half of the numb
rushed toward the scene of the KILN
while as many more turned in fig
=, from the square.
Many were injured as the mount
police surrounded the injured al
drove back the mob.
Assassin's Name.
IS Silverstein, the Union square bon
thrower,t according to bystand'
said:
A. Il did it because a policeman be
me up"
H. Among the injured are two pole
men. Immediately after the explosi
ay a hurry call for ambulances was sc
to half a dozen hospitals. When t
le' ambulances rushed back to the h
pital they had as occupant several
iured policemen and some of the p
Elephants in the demonstration W
N had been injured by the bomb, or
as the clash with the police.
he Siverstein's body was literally to
Re, to pieces by the force of the explosi'
IS The top of his head was ripped op,
ST. both of his eyes were blown out,
ur face was terribly cut and mutilat
In and both hands had been blown
on at the wrists.