The Ordway new era., 1908-04-03
BLOWN up IN
BED At HOME
ATTEMPT TO MURDER GEN. suL.
KELLEY WELLS AT PANDORA
NINE NEAR TELLURIDE.
BED TORN TO sHREDs
Woul-sE ASSASSIN cREEPs INTO
SLEEPING ROOM AND PLACES
DYNAMITE.

Telluride. Colo.-The DISCHARGE of
an explosive under the bed of Gen
nulheley Wells, general manager of the
ohuG gler-Union mine, Saturday morn.
ing, shortly after O'Clock, wrecked
the sleeping porch of the building.
hnrled the general across the room.
completely destroyed the bed on which
ne was sleeping. tore out the walls and
broke many OF the windows.
General Wells, by telephone. sum.
moned his employees and called upon
sherih c. A. Fitzpatrick and his depu.
lies % investigate the affair. The ef.
torts or the generals men and the
sherih up to late hour Saturday
nave resulted In no tangible clews. No
one, save the general, was In the house
when the explosion occurred. The
house Is at Pandora, near the Snug.
Sler-union mill. and is used rs head
quarters for the Office force and as a
residence by General Wells. The build
Ing Is closely guarded by employees OF
the company. and as an additional pre-.
caution IN immense searchlight at the
mill sweeps over the house and takes
In all OF the property of the company
ana the roads and trails leading to IT,
General Wells was only slightly
bruised. Saturday night he distated
tn following statement:
Il went to bed at 1870 on my Sleep
ing porch on the second story of my
house at Pandora. where the mill OF the
company is located:
The explosion occurred about 9
O'Clock, the hands OF the clock in the
dining room having stopped at 2:O3
o'clock. ] was asleep at that time and
was rendered unconscious from the
shock. found myself at the other end
OF the room from which the bed was
located. covered with pieces OF bed
ding and debris OF the wreckase of the
room.
AS soon as could collect my senses
called upon the guards AZ the mill
and my men here to look for the man
or men who had placed the explosive
in my room. then telephonnd Sheriff
/ Fitzpatrick, who left town with num-
ber of men and came to Pandora. The
men formed line about my house
and searched diligently, but neither
party mer with success.
Yesterday morning someone with n
ladder climbed into the second story
OF my house and placed the explosive
there. This must have been done some
time between 3 and IL O'Clock, when I
was in Telluride. | returned here at II
o'clock.
81 have not as yet formed any
theory or opinion TO which can at this
time give expression. Sheriff Fltzpat.
rick Is conducting the investigation
and | can give out no statement as to
who did this deed until those investiga.
items are finished.
81 was not badly injured. though Sc
verely shaken up. My hands and face
are cut. The floor underneath my bed
was blown out, n hole about two and
half feet In diameter being made.
The stripping was torn from the room
and I am battered considerably.
INV opinion Is that the explosive
used was dynamite.
"I have received no threatening let
ters OF any sort for fully three months,
though prior to that time l received
many.
"Thc county has offered $1,000 for
tho apprchension OF the man who
caused tho explosion.
"The person who placed the dyna-
mite under my bed must have entered
from the back of the house. as the
housc is right against n hillside. the
searchlight does not cover the back OF
the house. or rather the end OF the
house. and n person could gain en-
trance there without being shown by
the searchlight.
"The mottress underneath me was
torn 10 bitstorn to bits. attribute my
miraculous escape to the fact that l
was sleeping between heavy woolen
blankets. was alone in the house a.
the time of the explosion. my family
being in Colorado Springs