White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-28
BOMB EXPLODED
KILLING PARADERS
BURSTS AMONG SPECTATORS OF
SAN FRANcisco's PREPAR-
EDNESs PARADE.
SIX WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT
Crude Letters to All Leading News
papers Gave Forecast Of Crime
Over As People Injured
G. A. r. Avert Panic.

Dali rFHuClSCO.-AL ledSC SlA per
sons were killed and AZ or more were
injured by the explosion here Satur-
day of a timed bomb in the midst
of throng viewing a preparedness
parade. The police arrested Frank
Josephs, ledger in sailors board
ing house, but said he had not been
charged with the crime.
Charles M. Fickert, district attor-
ney, issued statement attributing
the deed to mind unbalanced by ar
guments for and against prepared
ness, which have occupied attention
here. The parade was not inter-
rupted.
The explosion occurred at Stuart
and Market streets, two blocks from
the ferry building, on San Francis
co.'s main thoroughfare. The bomb,
concealed in a suitcase packed with
cartridges, bullets, marbles, bits of
glass, iron pipe and scrap iron, blew
a gap through the crowd, hurting
men, women and children to the
ground.
Sidewalk Strewn With Victims.
The holiday throng, cheering a con-
tingent of veterans of the First Cali
fornia infantry of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war and members of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, who were form
ing in Stuart street, became sham
bles. The blare of so bands and the
roar of drums drowned the cries of
the injured. The sidewalk was strewn
with torn bodies, and spattered with
blood.
Tho Dead.
Mrs. Howard e. Knapp, Alameda,
Cal.
Dr. Geo. Painter, Berkeley, Cal.
o. H. Lamborn, printer, Alameda.
George Lawlor, Mill Valley, Cal.
| Arthur Nelson, Larkspur, Cal.
| Adam Fox, San Francisco.
Seriously Injured.
Howard E. Knapp, decorations legs
and body.
Mrs. Kingsley Van Loo, Oakland,
decorations legs, internal injuries.
Harry Turnbull, retired manager
the Family club, fractured skull.
Miss Pearl Seeman, 10, Oakland,
leg blown off.
Mrs. l.. o. Wymore, Oakland, leg
blown off, other leg amputated.
Henry j. Claussen, Alameda, right
leg fractured, body lacerated and
bruised.
Freakish Feature.
One freakish feature of the catas
trophe was the fact that after the
wounded had been taken care Of doz
ems of shoes, apparently blown OF
torn from the feet of those nearest
the bomb, were scattered over the
scene.
Articles Of clothing also were found
here and there, and one woman, who
escaped with slight bruises and shock
was stripped almost nude by the
force Of the blast.
The proprietor of the cafe outside
Of which the bomb was placed stood
less than six feet from the fatal suit
case and escaped without injury. He
was standing just inside an open
doorway watching the parade. The
conclusion threw him to the floor.
Veterans Avert Panic.
To the men of the Grand Army OF
the Republic who had faced explod
ing shells before fell the task Of
averting panic when the ranks OF
the paraders were split by the shrap
nel-like blast.
The grizzled veterans were almost
on the scene of the explosion when
the detonation came. For moment
while crawling women and men could
be seen cropping painfully through the
smoke caused by the bomb, the lines
halted in confusion and disruption
seemed imminent
Then some unnamed marchel
sprang to the front of the thin blue
line and called attention" Instantly
his comrades returned to their places
and the little column, somewhat fee
bly,, but with the determination thai
made them survivors Of the civil
war, marched on past the huddleG
heaps of dead and injured on the
street and sidewalk.
Newspapers Receive Warning.
All the newspaper offices in Sa1
Francisco Saturday received a com
munication written in Roman script
with an indelible pencil, many of the
words being heavily underscored. The
communication was signed "The De
termined Exiles From Militaristie
Government, Italy, Germany, U. S..
Italy, Russia" In several instances
the writer repeated himself. The
communication read
Editor: Our protests have been
: in vain in regards to this prepared
ness propaganda, SO we are going to
use a little direct action on the 22d
which will echo around the earth and
show that Frisco really knows how
and that militarism can not be fore
ed on us and our children withou,
violent protest.
Things are going to happen te
: show that we will go to any extreme
the same as the controlling class, te
; preserve what little democracy We
still have. Don't take this as joke
or you will be rudely awakened"
Every possible precaution, police
officials said, was taken, but the In