New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
BOMB SHAKES BUILDING
PANIC GRIPS GO FAMILIES.
Their Rash TO Street Barred by Big
Hole Torn an Staircase.

bomb was exploded in the hallway OF the
.,,sn,ent house No. sos East 18th street last
,,inr Considerable damage was done TO the
,sircase doors, windows. crOckery and furniture.
ne poce az the 18th street station and detectives
,,on Headquarters are looking for two men sup
,osed 10 have placed the bomb.
TIE tNenty-siN families in the tenement house
,-cre eating when the whole building shook from
she force Of the explosion. Instantly the Railways
rore filled with scurTying tenants. all striving to
reach The street. A rush was made for the street
soor hut The scared tenants were held up by
l.rre gap II The foot OF the first floor staircase.
where six granite steps had been. Yelling loudly.
,he houseful of people, mostly Italians, with few
Hebrews stood at the top of The stairway. Many
tried 10 inmp. but cool heads in the crowd pre-
vented them
a policeman who heard the explosion called the
reserves from The 5th street station. The work
done was 10 relieve the nervous tenants.
An the rear Of the hallway. on the west side. IS
8 door opening into the apartment OF Mrs. Dora
MichoNich. the lanitress of the tenement house
This door was blown by the force Of the explosion
INTO Mrs Michowicll's kitchen. where it shattered
the glass doors Of a china closet and crashed
among number Of pots and pans Mrs. Micho-
uich Va no lying on a bed. was thrown To the
floor she ran screaming out of the building
Opposite the entrance door of the Michowich
APARTMENT i the door leading into the apartment
Of Louis Klein. who keeps a candy store in the
front Or the house. The door blown into the
Klein kltenen ana MIS- Klein, VINO was getting
supper for her husband. was struck the head
br several pots and pans knocked from the hooks.
IN the store Klein was selling TO a customer when
shelf fun Of stock fen on his head and the
customer ran cut.
Tho worst damage done 10 the staircase. I'M
derneath the first three steps of which the bomb
had been placed The staircase is built against the
easf wall The space beneath il is used a stoT-
iue place for household goods by Mrs Michowlch.
Tho bomb VAS placed among these household arti-
cles With the explosion the displacement of
siA the granite steps, four OF which were blown
70 fragments Most OF Mrs. Michowich's property
was destroyed.
Gerard T FilInzi a letter carrier attached to the
Tompkius Square branch who lives at No. 50 Mott
street, in the vestibule of the tenement house
A. Tho time dropping mail into boxes. The force
of the explosion threw him 20 the floor but he was
uniniUred
The damaged building is tho property of Ita-
ian oil importer Giovanni Tarisi. who has oil Gel
lars ~ Nos 500 and ST. East 18th street. Accord
ing 70 people in the neghbcrhood. Tarisi has re-
cciyed threatening letters from unknown men re-
oerrlv. Mrs Michowich says that Tarisi keeps his
home address from every one. that his enemies may
10, able find him after he leaves his place of
business night
The police learned from Mrs. Dora Kohut. who
lives a. No $40 East 18th street. that she was
leaving the apartment Of Mrs. Michowich her
daughter carly last evening. she noticed two well
dressed men apparently Italians. in the hall. When
She went through the hall. Mrs Kohut says. these
men FASTENED 20 the front door and waited until
she had left tho building. The police re looking
for them and for Taris