Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-09-22


then in session, and that they saw no |
reason for complying with the re-
quest. This is the kind of a board |
the people voted for at the primaries. !
They show their sympathy with the |
lawless element by refusing a reason
able petition from two of the heaviest |
taxpayers In the town of Tonoph.
The outrage occurred at 1910 /
O'Clock this morning. The shock OF
the explosion aroused the entire city. |
Large buildings in the business dis
trict rocked as though an earthquake |
had shaken them from their founda-
tions. Even on the outskirts, citizens
were awakened to sense of some
great peril and sprang out of bed to
ascertain the cause The Kendall
block, "a massive stone structure, in
which the telephone office is situated,
srembled and the night operator in
the exchange on the ground floor
thought the building was falling.
A bunch of dynamite placed under
the west corner of the Bonanza job
department on Central street had
been ignited The corner of the
building, where large cylinder press
is located, was blown into splinters
and the Interior badly damaged. The
walls were twisted and warped Tim
bers and boards were torn and
shredded, showing the intense force
employed, and the windows of the
large composing room were broken
However, the force of the dynamite
exerted itself downward and spent it.
self in the loose ground directly un-
der the cylinder press. The adjoin-
ing garage owned BY ]. NJ Gilfoyle,
manager of the LOTUS Davis com
pany, shows the enormous force ex-
erted The galvanized corrugated
iron doors were twisted off their
hinges and the sides blown in The
adjoining residence owned and occu-
pied by j. r. Blair, bookkeeper Of the
West End Consolidated Mining com.
pany. suffered considerable damage
and the occupants, Mr. and Mrs
Blair, were momentarily stunned, and
Mr. Blair thrown from his bed to the
floor and stunned On the west side
of Central street Carl Stevens, auditor
of the West End was sleeping in his
apartments of the old Wingfield house
and must have been rendered uncon.
scious. He remembers hearing the
explosion and then relapsing into
what he thought was sleep only to
reawaken some ten minutes later
when he heard the crowd running to
the scene.
James Robertson, the broker. was
entering his residence on South
street, two blocks distant and In line
with the Bonanza across a vacant
space. He was fitting his latchkey to
/ the lock, standing sidewise in such
manner that he caught sight of a
/ fash of light, followed by a tremend-
Gus explosion The fash was in the
/ direction of the Bonanza, but he never
suspected any conspiracy to destroy
/ property. Running in the direction
of the flash, he met others. who in.
sisted the explosion was at the west
end of the West End dump and he
had difficulty in convincing the crowd
that II must have been close to the
garage at the rear of the Bonanza
Finally the rapidly increasing GROVE
observed smoke pouring out from be
tween the garage and the Bonanzs
building and ran in that direction
when the truth dawned on themas Ii
going to the garage whence th'
smoke seemed TO issue they stumbled
over fragments of timbers from tn,
corner of the BonanRa building. Thel
: the truth appeared and they realizet
that the city was at the mercy of
band of cowardly dynamiters. Nigh
! officer Bob Dalzell was on Mai
/ street at the time and was guide
j. to the spot by the smoke. No trac
: of the perpetrators of the outrage re
) NAMED, as the ground was ploughe
). up by the impact of the powder an
he street was filled with splintere
wood
The dynamite failed of its purpose
: for the reason that in erecting tn
building after the fire of two year
ago the hollow under the joists wa
3 filed with loose dirt In this tillin
!, the powder spent its force.
!. The Blairs were sleeping 36 fe,
! from the dynamited corner and st
vens across the street was some
feet away from the explosion tt
effect on these people serves to gi,
a better idea Of the tremendous for'
, exerted
- Mr.. and Mrs. Booth sleep in a &C
q tage in front OF the dynamlted null
ing and il was evident that t
scoundrelly gang, while trying 10 We
their spleen on the editor and mar
ger of this paper would not hesita
to murder his estimable wife
n Two men were observed a she
e. time before the explosion hehavi
in suspicious manner. Their nam
- are known and every moment Of tn
time will be checked mp by the proI
officers, and II is thought that sufti
ent evidence win be gathered witt
the course of a few days TO ena
the manager of the Bonanza to dir
4 the officers of the law to their du
" Dick Noonan was asleep at the
fee of the Tonopah Bonanza Min
company two and half miles fr
. the office OF the Daily Bonanza, 1
= heard the explosion distinctly, as
. noise woke him from a sound 81
y and he waited 10 hear a repetition
. ascertain the direction Tie looked
. Ms watch and found II indica
. 1910 a. M This statement ser
. 10 show the quantity OF powder
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