The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-26
A TIMED BOMB
CREATES HAVOC
And Brings Death To A.
Many Injured.
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WAS CONCEALED IN SUIT CASE
Cartridges and Scrap Iron Rend
Crowd Viewing Big Prepar.
edness Parade. 2
MARCHING WENT STEADILY on

San Francisco, July 22.-At least
four persons We're killed and forty
four we're injured by the explosion
here to-day of timed bomb in tee
midst of throng viewing a prepar-
edness parade.
The police arrested Frank Jo-
sephson. a ledger in sailors board
inghouse, who cried 81 didn't do it,
| didn't do it," and trembled vio-
lently when he was being searched
at the stationhouse. The police said
he had not been accused of any
thing
Charles NJ. Fickert, District At
torney. Issued q statement attribut-
ing the deed to a mind unbalanced
by arguments for and against pre-
paredness The parade was not in
terrupted.
The explosion occurred at Steuart
and Market streets, two blocks from
the Ferry building on San Francis
cos main thoroughfare. The bomb,
concealed in suit case packed with
cartridges. bullets, gas pipe. glass
and scrap iron, blew a gap through
the crowd. blasting men. women.
children and babies.
The one-story brick building
against which the suit case stood
was wrecked. --- go
The holiday throng, cheering p
contingent of veterans of the First
California Infantry of the Spa nisa-
American war, became a shamb les.
The blare of fifty bands and tie
roar of drums drowned the cries Of
the injured, but the sidewalk was
strewn with torn bodies.
The bomb sprayed the crowd as
with shrapnel. Dozens of shells
sprinkled the ground nearby, and
the effective ones did most If the
damage. The bomb, made OF nails.
cartridges and dynamite, was placed
in front of saloon before which
hundreds of persons We're crowded.
The building was wrecked and stores
across the street nearly demolished.
Persons cut, half blinded, ran mad
ly through the crowd, and others
panic-stricken, stumbled over the
dead and injured, piling up heaps
on the street.
Blood and flesh spattered across
the sidewalk and among the specta-
tors made a hideous spectacle. Many
persons collapsed or fought their
way out.
Josephson. the suspect, was ar
rested while making a speech after
the explosion in which he is said to
have lauded anarchy and declared:
This is nothing"
After his arrest, however, he said
that he is not an anarchist ana de-
MED having any knowledge of the
bomb explosion. The handle D. the
suit case which contained the eX-
plosives. together with part of the
lock and pieces of clockwork We're
picked up near the scene. !
Two women standing beside me
were blown to bits" said Mrs. Kins-
ley Van Loom, of Oakland, who.
with her two children, was injured.
The police say 1t is possible that
some bodies were blown out of ex-
istence.
All the newspaper offices in San
Francisco yesterday received a COM
written in Roman scrip
with an indelible pencil. many of the
words being heavily underscored 4
The communication was signed:
The determined exiles from mill ,
taristic government. Italy. Germa-
ny. United States. Italy. Russia. Rus
sia." In several instances the wri-
ter repeated himself
The communication read In part:
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 cannot be
forced on us and our children with
put violent protest"