The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-07-24
s PERSONS KILLED
WHEN BOMB is
THROWN IN PARADE
Forty Persons Seriously Injured in
San Francisco's Preparedness
Parade.
DEADLIEST INTERNAL
MACHINE EVER INVENTED
Nearly $4,000 Persons in Panic After
Explosion; Many Cut and Half
Blinded. .

San Francisco, July PA bomb
exploded presumably by anarchists in
protests against San Francisco's big
preparedness parade, killed at least
six persons at Stewart and Market
streets and injured 40 seriously, be-
sides inflicting lesser injuries upon
scores of others. \
The capacity of downtown hospi-
tails was taxed to care for victims, but
the parade went on.
.~-. Sailor Arrested.
Frank Joseph Finch, sailor, 46
years old, was arrested in connection
with the outrage. Within few feet
of the. bodies of the victims he made
a stump speech lauding anarchy and
saying, "That is nothing
The bomb, one of the dealiest in
fernal machines ever put together
was left in suitcase at the corner
and exploded just as the First Cali
fornia regiment was passing the line
of parade getting into full swing.
Bomb in Suitcase.
The bomb. consisted of a, suitcase
packed with explosives and crammed
with nails, cartridges, slugs and other
missiles, making it more deadly than
the shrapnel of European battlefields
Pieces hurled a block felled their vic
Tins.
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. Il
Persons cut, half blinded, the blood
streaming from their faces and bodies
ran madly through the crowd, and
others, panic-stricken, stumbled over
the bodies of the dead and injured,
piling up in heaps on the street.
Newspapers Warned.
Warning that bomb would be
hurled had been received Saturday by
newspapers an dothers. 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 Pa
ciic coast.
Nearly $4,000 persons representing
this city, Oakland and all the cities
on both sides of the bay were march.
ing up Market street in orderly pro.
cession as living expression of the
marchers in favor of the movement
for national preparedness. e:
Foot Blown Of.
Half an hour after the head of the
parade had passed Stewart and Mar
ket streets, marching from the Ferry
building, deafening explosion shat
tered the windows for several block:
around and>threw the spectators ant
farchers 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 tori
completely off and marcher, carry
ing a big American flag, had tn
standard blown from his hand and I
piece driven through his leg.
The widest confusion prevailed
Policemen patrolling in the vicinit.
of the explosion turned in a hurr,
call for ambulances; reinforcement
broke through the frantic crowd AM
flung a Gordon about the place.
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