The Mena weekly star., 1908-04-02
4 COLORADO BOMB
ATTEMPT MADE TO AssAssiNATE Ex-ADJUTANT GENERAL
 BULkELEY WELLS.
WAS HURLED FROM PORCH BY EXPLOSION
Gen. Wells Escape from Instant Death
 Was Almost MlracuIous--5ed on Which He Was Sleeping Smashed
 Into kInding Wood-Took Leading Part in SuppressIng Labor Troubles.

Into klndling Wood-Took Leading Part in suppresslns Labor Troubles. Telluride, Col, Mar. 29--Former Adtutant Gen. Bulkeley Wells narrow ly escaped death or serious injury at his home here at an early hour Sat urday morning, from a well-planned effort to assassinate him with dyna- mite
 Despite precautions against such an attempt, such as patrols and arc lights about the house. a stick of dynamite or prepared bomb was placed under or near Gen. Wells bed.
 Gen. Wells was sleeping, as was his habit, on an outer porch of the house and he was hurled with the de- bris many feet from the wrecked house.
 The side of the house was torn com pletely out, hardly stick of the bed remained, and fragments of wood were scattered over the neighborhood. Though badly shaken up and bruised to some extent, Gen. Wells is said to, have escaped without injury. Gen. Wells took a leading part in the suppression of labor troubles in this state in 1904 and 1905 and was prominently identified with the recent prosecution of officers of the Western Federation of Miners at Boise on the charge of complicity In the assassina- tion of Former Gov. Frank Steunen- berg. He had been active also in se- Steve Adams, to be tried here on charges of murder in connection with the miners strike of 1904
 Gen. Wells is general manager of the Smuggler union mine and his home where the explosion occurred dora, several miles from town. The general appeared in town Saturday morning with his head bandaged, but otherwise apparently none the worse for his experience.
 One suspect has been arrested and Is held in the county jail pending a thorough investigation relative to his alleged connection with the explosion. The entire city and county police forces are working on the case and more arrests were expected.
 q have formed no opinion concern until the matter is fully investigated" said Gen. Wells Tt is all strange to me. I was In town Friday night and did not return home until midnight or whereabouts. l noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the house and which I use almost the year around.
 "The next l remember was being awakened by a loud report and found myself flying through the air. I must have been hurled against the roof of the porch. When I had fully regained my senses was buried under a mass of wreckage, the bed having been re- duced to kindling and the porch badly damaged.
 At first I did not realize what had happened. AS soon as l could extri- cate myself I made tour about the IOuSC UuL bd uO OhV. 1hth h0SAhNN the sheriff by telephone. could not say whether 1t was a bomb or stick of dynamite that was placed under the bed.
 The bomb or dynamite stick had evi- dently been placed under the bed some time Friday and set off at the time desired by the use of clockwork or time fuse. Every nook and cor ner about the house and in the vicin- ity was searched in an effort to find machinery of some sort and the fail ure to discover anything of the kind has caused the officers to believe that an odorless fuse had been attached to the explosive.
 That Wells had most miraculous escape is evidenced by the damage done to the room and its contents. Every window was blown out, a huge hole was torn in the floor, plaster was jarred from the ceiling and side walls and nearly every window light in the house was cracked. The wire springs of the couch on which the general slept were twisted and broken.
 General Wells predecessor or man. ager of the Smuggler union mines. Arthur L. Collins, an Englishman was shot to death at Pandora several years ago. Steve Adams, the alleged accom- plice of Harry Orchard, the murderer of Ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, is now in jail at Telluride awaiting trial for that crime.
 Gen. Wells is a graduate of liar ward university and It a prominent clubman. He was alone in his houe Friday night.