The evening world., 1908-12-09
BLACK HAND BOMB
WRECKS A HOUSE.;
MANY INJURED
Nine Victims Dug Out and
Taken to Hospital With
Serious Hurts.
PANIC AFTER EXPLOSION
Inmates of Convent Near Six
ty-third Street Tenement
Were Alarmed.
PANIC AFTER EXPLOSION

Nine persons we're badly injured and
more than a score of others were cut
and bruised by falling walls and shat
tered glass at o'clock this morning
when an agent for the Black Hand"
Society slipped over the roof 10 the
a!rshaft of the five-story tenement, at
No. $50 East SiXty-third street, and
dropped bomb.
The explosion was terrific. The walls
of the big tenement reeled and win
dows in every house on the block went
smashing TO the street. Then the water
pipes burst and in a few minutes the
wrecked house was flooded.
Across the way is the Convent of the
Sisters Of the Holy Rosary, where there
are half hundred children and a dozen
or more nuns, The excitement in the
convent grew into panic Children
were awakened by the explosion, and as
the broken glass began falling they ran
to the Sisters.
Wien the police arrived the block was
swarming with men, women and chill
dren, dressed in night garments. Nine
persons in the house where the bomb
dropped had to be carried from the
wreckage The police list OF the Sc
ilOuolS lIIJuItu lOIlO"S.
PIETRO GIAMO, twenty-five, cut
about the scalp and sncc.
MARITIME GIAMO, eighteen, cut on
both sides of the face and the
throat.
VITO GIAMO, thirty-one, cut about
the scalp, arms and hands.
DOMENICO VITO, forty-seven, leg
crushed by falling walls.
SALVATORE LAMBARTO, Atty
four, back badly hurt and prob
able Internal injuries.
IDA GOLDEN, twcnty-eight, arm
cut and other hurts about the body.
SAMUEL GOLDEN, twenty-five,
both sides of his fucc cut and eyes
injured.
ANGELA LIE ARGINO, thirty-one,
thrown ont of bed and buried I'M
der falling plaster
MARIO sPORDANO, thirty, cut
about the face and head.
These nine were all taken TO Presby-
terrain Hospital. The first Ave were
taken charge of by physicians and
placed in wards. The others were re-
moved to their homes by friends.
There is no doubt in the minds of the
police that this Black Hand outrage
wa another attempt to wreak the VEN
seance OF the Italian outlaws on Clio
vanni Co2uss, a banker, with offices
at SiXty-third street and First avenue.
Cozussi's son was kidnapped three
years ago and held captive for weeks.
The boy was found wandering on the
street one day. when the police OF New
York and every city in the East were
looking for him, and he was returned TO
his home.
lie told how he had been captured and
held in some tenement house, but never
would or could tell the police where the
tenebent- house was located.
Cozussi became the mark for the Black
Hand few months ago for the second
time. There were children kidnapped in
the block where he owns row of tene-
ment houses: men were murdered; tene-
ments were set on fire, and the tenants
received all sorts OF threatening let
tiers.
The Black Hand man who attempted
20 blow up Cozussrs tenement this
morning selected a time when there
was almost certain 10 be loss of life.
Paola DISPENSE the janitor of the
mouse, haa been careful TO lock the
front and rear doors ara the door lead
ing 10 the roof. The house had been the
attack OF SO NAM Biack iiand out-
On the first floor were the Giamo
bothers Vito and Lambarto' When the
explosion came the walls and plaster
Others who were injured were on the
upper floors,