The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-24
Six Dead and Two More May
Die as Result of Explosion.
Entire City Hunts Man Who
Threw Suitcase in Parade.
CITY COMBED FOR SUSPECTS
Mass Meeting "TO Express
Opinion Against Outrage"
Bomb Contained NitrO-TOIuOI.
Tremendous Explosive.

San Francisco. July 24.-Under the
pressure of public sentiment aroused
over a terrific bomb explosion which
occurred during Saturdays prepared
ness parade here, the authorities were
working with the determination to
run the perpetrator to earth To the
death list of six it was expected that
two and probably more of the forty
four injured would be added five VIC
Tins being reported in a critical con-
dition
Led by Mayor Rolph, who has Of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the ar
rest of the culprit, scores of citizens
have volunteered their service for
special aid, and the entire city seems
eager to lend all possible assistance
A. mass meeting ito express an
opinion on the bomb outrage was
called today for next Wednesday by
frederick ]. Koster, president of the
chamber of commerce.
Several definite clews were being
followed with great activity.
Two men who claimed to have seen
the man with the suit case believed to
have contained the Internal machine.
described him as about 35 years old
tall and shabbily dressed The CITY
was being combed today for a man of
~
ised results.
Tremendous Explosive
Experts retained by the police have
arrived at the conclusion, it was said
that the bomb had as its principal
ingredient nitro-toluol, an explosive
of tremendous power. This substance,
they say, was compressed into a
length of cast steel pipe which judg-
ing from the fragments picked nm in
the area of destruction, must have
been from foot to fifteen inches and
from six to eight inches in diameter
Ihe great quantities of bullets, sIiyers
OF iron and other metal with which
the pipe was loaded made it a verita-
Bile shrapnel shell.
Nitro-toluol is one of the most
modern of the high explosives and it
has such terrific force in compact
quarries and mines, is easily obtained
there because of its commercial EN-
ployment.
In Preparedness Parade.
Six persons were killed and forty Sc
Vere!y injured Saturday afternoon
when an Internal machine was ex-
ploded in the crowd viewing the great
preparedness parade in which more
than $4,000 residents of San Francisco
and the bay cities marched.
The thousands of spectators and
marchers in the vicinity Of Steuart and
occurred. were thrown into wild
panic.
A suitcase in which the bomb had
been planted" was placed or thrown
upon the sidewalk by the dynamiter.
The police arrested Frank Joseph
son, a lodger in a sailors boarding
house, who cried "I didn't do it,
didn't do it, and trembled violently
when he was being searched at the
station house. The police said he had
rot been accused of ANYTHING
Making Anarchist Speech.
Josephson. the suspected, 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 was not an anarchist and de-
MED having any knowledge of the ex-
plosion.
List of Dead and Injured.
The following were Killed or died of
injuries.
Mrs. E. FL Knapp. Alameda. Cal.
DR.. George L. Painter, Berkeley,
Cal
L. H. Lamborn, Alameda, Cal.
George Lawlor. Mill Valley, Cal.
Arthur Nelson. Larkspur, Cal.
Five more of the injured will die,
the police say.
The most dangerously injured are:
Howard E. Knapp, lacerations, legs
and body; Mrs. K. Van Loo, Oakland,
Cal, decorations both legs, internal in
iuries; Harry Turbull, fractured skull
. Miss Pearl Seeman, 10 years old, Oak
land Cal, leg blown off; Mrs. L. o.
Wymore, Oakland, Cal, leg blown
off; Henry ]. Classen, Alameda, Cal,
right leg fractured, body 1acerated and
bruised.