Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-06
THREE MEN AND A WOMAN DIE
Dead and Those Escaping Injury
in Apartment Include Defend
ants in Tarrytown Case.
HECKLED ]. D. ROCKEFELLER, JR
Believed Internal Machine Made foS
Use at Coming Trial.
MOST POWERFUL USED IN CITY
As Far aA Two Blocks from the
Wrecked Structure Persons Are
Thrown Down by the
shock.

NEW YORK, July 5--Three men and a
woman were killed today when a dyna-
mite bomb, said to be the most powerful
ever used in this city. exploded with tre-
mendous force in an apartment tenanted
by Industrial Workers of the World. The
upper part of the six-story tenement
house in which the bomb was being made,
was wrecked.
A score Of persons we're seriously in
iured and much property damage was
done in a wide radius from the scene OF
the explosion.
Those dead and those who escaped in
Jury in the apartment included lndustrlal
Workers of the World men who were de-
PENDANTS in the trial to be begun Mon
day in Tarrytown, n. Y, where they
were arrested for creating disturbance
a few weeks ago. They went - the Will
age to make demonstrations outside the
Pocantico hills estate of John ID. Kocke-
feller, where John d. Rockefeller, jr., had
retired after being heckled in front of his
office at 26 Broadway, in this city by In
dustrial Workers of the World members
and sympathizers, including members OF
JJpton Sinclair's Free Silence league.
Their activities here arose from the coal
mine strike troubles in Colorado where
Mr.. Rockefeller, Jr., has mining interests
Theory of Police.
As soon as one of the bodies of those
Killed in the explosion had been idenu-
fled as that Of Arthur Caron, who came
here from Boston and who was one Oh
the defendants in Tarrytown, the ponce
began their investigation of the explosion
on the theory that a bomb was being con-
structed by Caron and others for posslpie
use at the Industrial Workers OF the
World hearings in Tarrytown on MONDAY
Since the arrest Of the agitators In tha'
village there have been rumors OF threats
against town officials If the defendants
were net released.
Late TODAY the police escorted from the
office OF Emma Goldman's publication
Mother Earth, to the police station
pro,yp of agitators, including Marie CAM,
sryestea some time ago for making out
door speeches in which she threatened
"a shoot John D. Rockefeller, Jr., MISS
CAM was released this morning from the
Queens county jail after serving a term
as a result of her speechmaklns'
Conferences at Night
Tho cross examination late today dis
closed that ell the eleven defendants, VINO
~
Alexander Berkman. anarchist, and 9TH
ers at the headquarters of the Francisco
Ferrer school. to devise a way to aid
the persons facing trial MONDAY Inc
oonferees included leaders of the so-called
anti-militarist league, which seeks TO as
courage workmen from joining the state
national guard.
Present at this meeting, according 10
statements to the authorities, were Carl
Hansen, a member of the staff OF Mpther
NEarth, and Carl Berg, "a, carpenter
one of the Tarrytown defendants. Hansen
was blown to pieces in the explosion
Part of his body was found on church
roof and part on car tracks in the street
Berg is missing and is counted among
the victims. The other person known To
have been killed was Mary Claves, e.
wears old, cigar maker, who occupied
an apartment adjoining the one In which
the explosion occurred.
what Search Disclosed.
In support of the police theory that a
bomb was being made for use In Tarry-
town. a search of Caron's apartments
disclosed two dry batteries wired for use
a loaded revolver cartridges and partly
constructed black jack, together with a
bowl of yellow substance thought to have
been used in bomb construction.
Statements to the police indicated that
the group at the Fanciseo Ferrer sehoo
dlsbanded about midnight last night
Caron, Hansen. Berg and fourth man
Mike Auspenti, who came here from Chi
cago about two weeks ago, left together
and went to the apartment where the ex'
,IostoY occurrad at 1925 I,exingon avenue
between lO2nd and 1O3rd street on the up
per east side.
Hansens half sister, Miss Louise
Berger, who rented the top floor apart
: ment occupied by herself, Hansen ane
Caron told the inquisitors that the foui
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