The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29
REPORTED ATTEMPT ONKNOX CONF |RMED The Official Gazette Gives
 Further Details LABORERS WARNED
One Bomb Exploded Prematurely, Leading to the Discovery of the Remainder-Do Not Accuse
 Liberals of the Outrage

New Orleans, March 2s-The report that an attempt was made to dyna- mite the train of Secretary of State Knox on the occasion of his recent visit to Managua, Nicaragua on March 5. is verified in a statement published in the Official Gazette. at Managua, on March 1S. the following extract of which was received here today:
 Before giving the account of the sumptuous feast of honor of his ex- cellence, the Secretary of State of the United States, MT. Knox, on the occa- sion of his visit to Nicaragua, We find ourselves in the sad position of be- ing obliged to defer the publication of those articles and to condemn with all the energy in our power an atrocious crime. timely frustrated. which shows plainly the moral degradation to which part of Nicaraguan society has sunk.
 Attempt Premeditated
 We refer to the placing of dyna- mite bomb on the railway track on the 5th inst, between Leon and La Ceiba with the premeditated intention of wrecking the train which was car rying his excellence. Secretary of State Knox, and his distinguished family.
 Perhaps Providence disposed that a few minutes before the train reached the point where the bomb was located one of them exploded, giving warning to a gang of laborers, who were go- ing over the line, anu who at once set about examining the roadbed care fully The foreman of the gang found an excavation at the point where the bomb exploded and at distance of 300 yards from the place known as Chlamate he found where II sticks of dynamite with their respective fuses were placed.
 From the investigation made by the commandante de armas of Leon it ap- pears that the author of the iniquitous Iattempt was a youth by the name of Eduardo Selva, son of Dr. BuenaVen- tura Selva. and from me fact that It was almost simultaneously with the complete destruction of the telegraph and telephone lines between Leon and IChinandega it is certain that a sim ister and barbarous plot was laid against the illustrious guest.
 Strongest DenunciatiOn Inadequate
 The strongest terms we can use are not sufficient to condemn as it should be condemned this scandalous crime, which would cause indignation and horror to the noble tribes of the remote sections of the globe.
 We refrain from asserting for the moment that this was the work of the opposition party, but because of the affiliations of the presumed author, the destruction simultaneously of the telc- graph lines and the excitement ob- served among the liberals that day and the previous references made to the matter by the press which is op- posed to the present order of things, 1t is quite evident that a least a large part of this group are responsible to justice and to history for this crim- inal attempt, which, if lt had been suc- cessful, would have caused our ever
 lasting discredit and would have wiped Nicaragua off the map of Christian civilized nations
 "The government is raking energetic steps to ascertain the facts, Tor the purpose of properly punshing the au- thors, accomplices or instigators in OF der that history may record their names with a patriotic curse"