The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-02-12
BOX HELD BOMB
EXPLODED Wien OPENED With
AWFUL RESULTS
WOMAN BLOWN TO ATOMS

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Herrers, who is a cigar manufac'
Finds Unlabeiled Package In Hall,
His Wife Opens it and Is Killed
While Woman Boarders Skull
Fractured and Fingers Blown on
A woman was killed, another was
mortally injured, and a man was ser
,ously hurt by a bomb which explod-
ed in the apartment they occupied al
No. 1873 Fulton avenue, the Bronx,
Monday night, says the New YORK
Herald.
Herrera, who Is cigar manufactur-
turer. and the superintendent OF the
apartment house where he lives, con-
Guided to go for q walk about $3.50
q. M, he told the police, and Just as
he had closed the door Of his room
he saw a parcel about the size and
shape of a shoe box, wrapped In or
dinary brown paper, on the floor OF
the hall two feet from his door.
He picked it up and without
thinking or troubling to see If it con-
taiped a name or address, unlocked
his door and entered the apartment,
His wife and Miss Fughtman. :.
boarcer, we're seated at the dining
room table where he had left them
He tossed the package on the tabls
and exclaimed: Some one evident
" lost a parcel in the hall"
Mrs. Herrera at once seized IT.
tore of the string and was unfolding
the paper wrapper when there was a
terrific explosion. Mrs. Herrera was
virtually blown to pieces and was
hurled against the Dutch wood man
tel at her back. Miss Fughtman was
hurled Eve feet against wall. She
had been so curiously impatient t.
see what was in the parcel that he;
right hand was extended in tentative
assistance to Mrs. Herrera in opening
the box. All the fingers Of tha'
hand were carried away.
Herrera, who was standing on th'
other side Of the table, watching the
little scene with amused interest, was
hurled through the doorway to'the
private hall. A piece OF the bonn!
struck his left eye, tearing it out.
SO powerful was the explosion
which in supposed to have been caus,
Cd by nitro-glycerine, that the pape;
IN which the box was wrapped. was
ground to powder. A quantity o.
xhitish-yelow dust was found on
what left Of the dining table.
Bits of the box were found in the
room and showed conclusively that
It was an ordinary shoe box, but nc
trace of the firm for which it hac
been made was discovered. This lee
the police to believe that probably
the liable had been torn of before the
bomb was inclosed In the box.
The internal machine had beer
constructed Of heavy inch gas pipe
about three inches long. This wa
ascertained by slive-s Of the pipe
which fitted together and werl
threaded at each enl. The ends ha
then been capped. TIE h''nl' ha'
i..en swarh d in thin paper bef.,re be-
Ing placed in the box, AMI the side:
OF the box, inside, had been padded
with more paper rolled into wads.
The force Of the explosion wreck,
ed the room. Every piece Of furni
ture in it was smashed. Tbs oas
dining table was broken into hun
cred bits. Pictures were pulle l from
the walls and the carpet was cut
into strips, which were curled up as
is they had tried to roll themselves
back into coil in which they hao
been held for long time.
The thunderous explosion not only
rocked the fye-story apartment
house, but shook the neighborhood
The shock was so great that the ten.
ants Of the building for several min
utes after the explosion remained II
their rooms. terrified.
Then there was a wild stampede
Some Of the panic-stricken men and
women dashed to the fire-escapes
dragging and carrying their children
many Of whom were plucked from
their cribs. Others tumbled into the
halls, screaming that the house was
afre.
Most Of the families thought the
house might fall down and insisted
on going to the street and jcinine
their neighbors. By this time sever
al thousand persons were jammed IN
the street and the police had to
draw lines and drive the crowd back
half a. block.
The throng was so congested that
the bluecoats had to make lane
through it for the ambulance to pass.
DR.. Muth. who respon7ed to the call
said Mrs. Herrera had been killed in
stantly. Then he took her husband
and Miss Fughtman to the hospital
He said the woman might not live
cut the night.
Just as Herrera and the boaTdeI
were being taken away Miss Ange-
lima Herrera. nineteen-year-old
daughter Of the dead woman, appear
ed at the house. She had gone to a
moving picture show soon after sup
per. She was grief-crazed when she
learned OF her mothers death and
friends took her to their home after
she had gone to see her father in the
hospital.
After the tumult had subsided a