Bonners Ferry herald., 1916-07-28
BURSTS AMONG SPECTATORS OF
SAN FRANcIsco's PREPAR-
EDNESs PARADE.
SIX WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT
papers Gave a Forecast of Crime
-Over As People Injured
G. A. r. Avert Panic.

day of a timed bomb in the midst |
of a throng viewing a preparedness
parade. The police arrested Frank
Josephs, a lodger in a sailors board |
ing house, but said he had not been
charged with the crime.
Charles M. Fickert, district attor-
ney, issued a statement attributing
the deed to a 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.
The Dead.
Mrs. Howard E. Knapp, Alameda,
, Cal.
DIR. 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, 19, Oakland,
leg blown Off
: hlo -. ~ w OoAiNhNf AS6
E blown off, other leg amputated.
Henry j. Claussen, Alameda, right
leg fractured, body lacerated and
bruised.
1 Freaksh Feature.
: One freakish feature of the catas
trophe was the fact that after the
3 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
R here and there, and one woman, who
escaped with slight bruises and shocl
n was stripped almost nude by the
force of the blast.
The proprietor of the cafe outside
e of which the bomb was placed stood
: less than six feet from the fatal suit
t case and escaped without injury. HI
J. was standing just inside an oper
: doorway watching the parade. Th'
l. concussion threw him to the floor.
- Veterans Avert Panic.
i To the men of the Grand Army o
@ the Republic who had faced explod
J. ing shells before fell the task o
averting panic when the ranks o
the paraders were split by the shraI
nel-like blast.
g The grizzled veterans were almos
4 on the scene of the explosion whel
v the detonation came. For a moment
q. while crawling women and men coul
" be seen cropping painfully through tn
=. smoke caused by the bomb, the line
6 halted in confusion and disruption
n seemed imminent.
n, Then some unnamed marche
sprang to the front of the thin blu
line and called attention" Instant
his comrades returned to their place
and the little column, somewhat fe,
8 bly,, but with the determination tha
70 made them survivors of the civ
" war, marched on past the huddle
'l' heaps of dead and injured on tn
4, street and sidewalk.
IS Newspapers Receive Warning.
r. All the newspaper offices in Sa
N Francisco Saturday received a con
e. munication written in Roman scrip
with an indelible pencil, many of th
words being heavily underscored. Th
le communication was signed "The d
r. termined Exiles From Militarist
to Government. Italy, Germany, U.
is Italy, Russia" In several instance
n the writer repeated himself. tt
On communication read:
Editor: Our protests have bee
in vain in regards to this prepare
ry ness propaganda, so we are going
it use a little direct action on the %
X which will echo around the earth al
show that Frisco really knows no