Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-07-23
Was Timed to Go Off During
Preparedness Parade, When
Streets Were Crowded With
Thousands of People.
BLARE OF MANY BANDS
BROWNS CRIES OF INJURED
One BUILDING Is a Wreck and
Several Others Badly Dam
aged Crowd Becomes Pan
ic Stricken and StampedeS,

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san Francisco. July 2g.-N least
-four persons were KILLED and forty
four or more were injured by an cN-
plosion here today of timed bomb
in the midst of a throne viewing "a
preparedness parade. The police ar
rested Frank JoscphsOn,. lOdgrr in
a sailors boarding house who cried,
Il didn't do it, ! didn't do IT," and
trembled violently when he was being
searched at the station house. The
police said ne had not been accused
Of anything. Charles M Fickert, dig
trict attorney, issued a statement at
trihutinR the deed to "A mind unbal-
anced by arguments for and against
preparedness, which have occupied
attention here. The parade was not
interrupted Tn, HIST OF the dead and
seriously injured, as compiled by the
police, follows
The dead
MRS, II. L. KNAPP, Alameda, Cal.
DIR GEORGE PAINTER, berkeley,
Cal.
O. H. LAMBORN printer Alamo da
GEORGE LAWLER, Min Valley,
Cal
Seriously injured
Arthur Nelson, 49, I.arkspur Cal;
decorations both legs ANA body.
Howard z Knapp, decorations both
legs and body.
Mrs Kingsley Van Loo, Oakland;
decorations both legs, Internal in
iuries.
Harry Turnbull, retired managed
The Family club, fractured skull.
Miss Pearl Seeman, 10, Alameda,
leg blown Off
Mrs l.. Wymer. Oakland; leg blown
off. the lae amputatcd
Henry j. Claussen, Alamedai right
leg fractured, BODY laccrated aud
bruised.
On Main Thoroughfarc.
The explosion occurred at Steuart
ana Market streets, two blocks from
the Ferry building on san Francisco e
main thoroughflrr.
The bomb. concealed in a suit case
packed with cartridges, bullets, gas
pipe, glass and scrap iron blew gap
through the crowd, blasting men,
women, children and babies
TIE one-story brick building against
which the suit case stood was wreck
ed The holiday throng, cheering a
contingent Of veterans Of the First
California infantry Of the Spanish
American war became a shambleS,
The hlare Of fifty bands ana the roar
OF drums drowned the cries OF :he
injured.
Two women standing beside me
were blown "a bits" said one women
Mrs Kingsley Van Loo, Of Oakland,
who with her two children was in
jured The police said 1t is possible
that some bodies were blown out Of
existence.
Receive a Communication.
All the newspaper offices in san
Francisco Yesterday received a com
municltiou written IN R0man script
with am indelhle pencil, many of the
words being heavily understored. The
communication was signed The De
lcrmiucd ENIlcs from Militurstlc GOV
crumwt Italy. Germany, United
States. Ilah. russia I'm several iu-
stances the writer repeated himself
The communication read:
"EdItor oar protests have been In
vain ina regard to TINS preparedness
50 we are going to use a
little direction ON the 22nd, which Will
echo around the earth and show that
FRISCO really knows how aud that mil
Imrism cannot be forced ON us ana
our children without violent protest
VIII GO to Any Extreme.
Things are going TO happen TO
show that We viii 20 TO any extreme,
hc same as the controlling classes
10 preserve what little democracy We
3ilI have. Don't take this as o joke,
pr you win he rudely awakened
Awaken talcD, we have sworn to do
pur duty TO the masses and only send
TO those who are wise but
who are forced 20 march 20 hold their
obe. as we want to give only the hy-
1orritical Csicl patriots who shout
.or war bul never go, real taste of
war
"KindN ask the chamber of com
ncrrc to march IN q solid body If
hey want 10 prove they are no COW
lrds & copy has been sent to an the
papcrs. oar duty has been done so
ar
Force OF Bomb Astonishing.
Every possible preCautou. police
officials said tonight, was
aiken. but the inuoccut-looking suit
ase standing where a county visitor
# whom there were thousands, might
lavp set IL down, attracted no utten-
ion.
Tho force Of the bomb was ustonish-
ng Handouts of empty revolver and I
ifIc shells. blown through the crowd
~ the explosion. were picked mp IN
ne CUTTERS by souvenir hunters \
,icce of lead pipe was blown two
locks into the Northwestern Pacific .
waiting room iu the Ferry building a I
yomaus gold watch presumably be {
onging TO one OF the victims. was T,
down through the air and landed N /
fruit stand block and a half away /
Parade Did Not Halt.
Through this violence the parade /
gended without break. The veto
ans of the Grand Army OF the Re /
ubllc. waiting In Stcuart street to fan I
nto line, escaped death by a hair and /
roceeded with the march An amhu-
lnce, summoned 10 care for %
tintug spectator, stood across Stcuart
lreet when the explosion oc- I