New-York tribune., 1913-07-21
FOUR BOMBS |MPER|L
HUNDREDS IN HOMES
Many Stores Wrecked in East
Side Tenement District and
Walls Shattered.
DYNAMITE THE EXPLOSIVE
Occupants of Attacked Houses
Dodge Flying Glass and
Other Missiles, but None
Is Seriously Hurt.

-Four bomb outrafcs in which hun
drcds Of persons were placed in peril
Of their lives. were perpetratcd in
crowded downtown sections Of New
York Yesterday.
Three of the bombs were exploded
last night Much property was dam
aged. but no person was seriously in
iurcd
shortly before midnight - dynamite
bomb that had been placed in an ash
can iu the rear Of tho hallway NJ 40.
3j stanton street exploded with great
fore" and knocked q hole two foot
square in tho floor above tho cellar
The eighteen families in the fve-story
tenement house became excited. and
many rushed 80 the street in their night
clothes.
The ground loor il occupied by
Carolina GarcL who has a grocery store
on the south side OF tho entrance 10 the
stairs. wailc l. Finkclst"in has paint
ers supplies store ON the upper side.
Neither store was much damaged.
Inspector owen Egan. Of the Bureau
Of Combustiblcs was returning from
the scene Of another bomb explosion
when he heard dull report lie went
to police headquarters and asked II an
other explosion had been reported In
quirics were made AT all the police
precincts. but there had not been any
report. \ fcw minutes later word was
received from the 18th street station
that there had been an explosion in
tie Stanton street house.
\ bomb was exploded in oliver street
at 40 O'Clock this morning. when the
doorWays on the ground floors Of Nos.
52 and 30 were torn into a mass Of
splinters. plate glass windows in both
doorwavs were shattered into thous-
ands Of pieces and sent hurting across
the street there 60 smash windows as
high as tho Gfth floor I'm the thickly
populatcd Italian tcnements.
Antico Forno. who conducts bakery
and yeast shop at No. - told Sergeant
conlon. of the oak street station, thai
be had been having trouble with other
bakers in the neighborhood because ne
insisted upon beginning the days work
before . o'clock every morning. In Nio-
lation of an agreement between Italian
ssath ~
chimney had been tampcred with in an
attempt to blow up his shop.
Cologero Indelicho. owner of china
store at No 1S1 Elizabeth street on the
ground floor. was seriously cut and
bruised last night when he started to
investigate what he thought was
small fire on the cellar steps below his
shop. Instead Of fire, il was the sput-
tcring of a bomb lndelicho saw. anu
when IT went on he was blown fifteen
feet
A dynamite bomb, exploded IL. the
hallway Of the FIVE story brick tene-
uent house at No. 80 Eighth avenue
at 800 o'clock yesterday morning
shattered every window in the build
ing. wrecked the c-ncrete flooring of
the hallway and blew part of the wall
away. The detonation was heard at
the Brooklyn Bridge and far up
Harlem.
The nolice found that the bomb had
been placed about fifteen feet IN from
the front ~ the hallway Of the build
ing which is at about the mlddle ol
the block, between iGth and f''h
streets. The wall o.. the north SIDE Vi
the hall was blown into the Darpe'
shop of Frank Ladalo, wrecking three
large mirrors and breaking down inc
marble slabs that bounded them.