The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-05
CWERFUL BOMB EXPLODES IN sAPARTMENTS OCCUPIED BY
 |. w. w. IN NEW YORK.
BELIEVED TO BE ACCIDENT
poice Think Giant Bomb Was Being K Made to Blow Up Court House at # arrytoWn, Where Trials Were to
 Be Held Beginning Monday.

New York, July 4.-Three men and woman were killed today when a dynamite bomb, said to he the most Powerful ever used ill this city, eX- ploded in ah apartment tenanted by Industrial Workers of the World. The upper part of the siX-story tene- ment house in which the bomb was beng made was wrecked. s A score of persons were seriously iniured and much property damage was done in a wide radius from the sene of the explosion.
 Those dead and those who escaped Injury in the apartment included 1. M W. men who are defendants in 6fhe trial to be begun Monday in Tarrytown, where they were arrested .&vlen they went to the village to hake demonstrations outside the Pos cBntico Hills estate of John D. Rocke feler.
 As soon as one of the bodies of those killed in the explosion had heen identified as that of Arthur Ca,on, one of the Tarrytown de fen ndants, 4she police began an inyes- tigation of the explosion on the theory that the bomb was being con str by Caron and others for pos Bible use at the l. w. w. hearings in Tarrytown Monday There have baen rumors of threats to Tarrytown Officials
 'l ate today the police escorted from tho office of Emma Goldman's publi- cation, Mother Earth" to d police station a group of agitators, includ- ing Marie Gang, arrested some time aso for threatening to shoot John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
 Cross examination disclosed that all the Tarrytown defendants, out on bal, met here last night with Alex ander Berkman, anarchist, and oth- ers to devise a way to aid persons facug trial Monday. Present at this meeting, according to statements to fhe authorities, were Carl Hansen, member of the staff of Mother Earth" and Carl Berg, carpenter a Tarrytown defendant
 Hansen was blown to pieces in the Explosion. Berg is missing and is ccunted among the victims. The other person known to have been kil ed was Mary Claves. G5 years old, a cigarmaker, who occupied an apart ment adjoining the one in which the Explosion occurred.
 ln support of the police theory that a bomb was being made for use in Tarrytown, a search of Caron's Apartment disclosed two dry batter ies wired for use; loaded revolver, cnrtridges and partly constructe2 Black jack, together with a bowl Of yellow substance thought to have been used in bomb construction.
 Statements to the police indicated thai the meeting last night ended about midnight. Caron, Hansen, tterg and fourth man, Mike Aus penti, who came here srom Chicago about two weeks ago, left together ana went 10 the apartments where the explosion occurred, at 1626 Lex meton avenue. Hansen's sister, Miss Lolise Berger, who rented the top floor apartment, occupied by herself, Hansen and Caron, told the inquisl- tors the four men reached home at l oclock. At : o'clock. when she left home, she said, Berg and Caron were asleep, Hansen was washing dishes anu Auspenti was lying on a couch. All were dressed.
 Ihere were no traces of an explo- eiye or of the material for making my anywhere in the apartment. Miss 6efger said. The explosion occurred .af 9:25 a. m. and she was notified of it, she declared. while at the Mother Earth office.
 Alexander Berkman said the group aiiled with him happened to s~~at the Mother Earth office when the police arrived because they had gathered to go on a Fourth of July picnic in New Jersey town. Berk- man denied he had counselled vio- lence at the coming Tarrytown trials.