Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-07-27
THOUSANDS IN PANIC
AS BOMB IS HURLED
SIX KILLED, 40 HURT IN SAN
FRANCISCO PREPAREDNESS
PARADE,
Exnlosior Amid Crowd Packed Along
Route Follows Threats Through
Mail

anarchists IN protest against Oali
Francisco's big preparedness parade
of July %, killed at least six persons
at Stewart and Market streets ana
iniuring 40 seriously, besides lnfllct-
ing lesser injuries upon scores OF oUh-
Five of the known injured will die,
the police said.
parade went on.
Frank Joseph Finch, a sailor. 46
wears old, was arrested IN connecrlon
with the outrage. Within few feet
of the bodies of the victims he made a
stump speech lauding anarchy ana
saving, "This is nothing"
The bomb ,one of the dead!lest m
fernal machines ever put together'
was left in a suitcase at the corner
and exploded just as the. First Cah-
fornia regiment was passing, the !lne
Of the parade getting into full SWING.
packed with explosives and crammeo
With nails. cartridges, slugs and 9th
er missiles, making it more deadly
than the shrapnel of European battle
fields. Pieces hurled block felled
LlclI F1CClIAos
Hundreds of persons were gathered
at the corner beside the serried ranks
of the marchers, and the missiles
plowed through them. The building
against which the suitcase had been
left was wrecked, and stores across
the street partly demolished:
Persons cut. half blinded, the blood
streaming from their faces and bodies,
ran madly through the crowd, ana
others. panicstricken, stumbled over
the bodies of the dead and injured,
piling up in heaps on the street.
Buildings for blocks around rocked
A traffic officer was thrown from MS
horse. .,
Veterans of the Grand Army Of the
Republic, preparing to march, esca!p-
ed unscathed, and moved sturdlly
ahead.
Warning Given Press
Warming that a bomb would be
hurled had been received Yesterday
hv newspapers and others. The close
watch for any move Of this kind was
foiled in part by the fact that the
bomb was left in, the suitcase instead
of being thrown.
The explosion came as the tragic
climax to the greatest patriotic dem
onstration in the history of the Paclhc
coast.
Nearly $4,000 persons represent
;no this citv. Oakland and all the
cities on both sides of the bay were
marching up Market street in orderly
procession as a living expression OF
the marchers in favor of the move
ment for national preparedness.
Half an hour after the head OF the
parade had passed Stewart and Mar
ket streets. marching from the Fer
nv building e, deafening explosion
Shattered the windows for several
blocks around and threw the spec
tators and marchers into a panic:
The bomb had gone off in the thick
est part of the Market street crowd.
Scores Of persons were knocked down.
Persons standing on the sidewalk
were heaped in a screaming, yelling
mass.
The foot of one child was torn COM
pletely off and a marcher carrying a
big American flag, had the standard
blown from his hands and a piece of
it driven through his leg.
The widest confusion prevailed. Po-
licemen patrolling in the vicinity of
the explosion turned in a hurry call
for ambulances; reinforcements broke
through the frantic crowd and flung
a Gordon about the place.
Police Reserves Called Out
With the subsidence Of the panic,
marchers and spectators surged back
as rescuers. Bodies of men, Of women,
of children lay, scattered about the
street. The entire police resources of
o% o0i ofo1Vr drawn
out.
The harbor emergency hospital am
bulance was standing almost across
the street from where the explosion
occurred. It had been called to carryI
G.. A. R. veteran, the flag bearer,
who had tainted while standing In
line and was then in an unconscious
condition at the oil station OF the
Shell Oil company. ).
Hole Torn in Sidewalk
In Stewart street were lined up the
G. A. R. and the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, waiting for
their place in the parade.
The explosion tore a hole through
the cement sidewalk and out of this
hole were picked pieces of leather
suitcase, glass, brass nosed bullets,
iron scrap and pieces of slx-lnch gas
pipe. The bomb, the police believe,
was incased in this piece of gas pipe.
The windows of many buildings were
shattered.
Traffic Officer F. D. Goddy was sit
ting on his horse near the explosion
with woman standing at his side:
Goddy was knocked off the horse and
the woman hurled against the animal.
Thrnnu Hurled fO Sfraot
Persons Is feet distant were knock
ed down and injured. The street look
ed as though filled with dead a mo-
ment after the explosion, so many
people had been knocked down.
C. McNeill, a member of the Span
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