The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-09-05
FEDERAL BUILDING
IN CHICAGO BOMBED
BELIEVED THAT /. w. w. SYM
PATHIZERS BLEW UP BUILD
ING FOR REVENGE

CHICAGO, Sept. 4.-(By Associated
Press.)-A bomb exploding in the en-
trance of the federal building this after
noon killed four persons and wounded
Is others.
The list of dead follows:
William H. Wheeler, a mail clerk.
]. B. Ladd, sailor from the Great
Lakes naval training station, whose home
was in Salina, Kan
E. R. Kolkow a postal clerk
Miss Helen Michike of Chicago
The blast was attributed to the In
dustrial Workers of the World by Philip
J. Barry, chief of the local federal in
vestigation bureau.
Raid I. w. w. Headquarters
While the city police were rushing the
wounded to hospitals federal agents
hurried from the building and made two
raids on 7. W. w. headquarters. Nine
men were bagged at these places and
woman was apprehended in a nearby Of
flee building Her identity is being kept
secret
The explosion wrecked the entrance
of the building and shattered every win
dow in the first three floors of two
buildings across the street. The court
room of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lam
dis, where o5 I. w. w leaders were
given prison sentences a few days ago,
is on the sixth floor of the federal build
ing
William D. (Big Bi1l) Haywood, "un-
crowned king" of the / w. W. was in
the building at the time of the explosion.
With his lawyer he was planning to seek
a writ of error to stay the execution of
the 20 years prison sentence given him.
He dep1ored the outrage and admitted
he thought the l. w. w. would be
blamed. bi1t denied emphatically that any
member of the organization had COM
mitted the act.
Haywood Appears Calm.
Haywood plainly felt the building
tremble, with detonation of the bomb.
and heard the glass crash in the dome of
the structure and the cries of the injured.
He anpeared calm and did not leave the
deputy marshal's office "It is unfor-
tt,nate that this thing happened at this
time" he said. ct know that the I. w.
w. will be blamed, but | am convinced
in nv own heart that no man OF my
organization was in any way connected
with this matter. 1t would be insane for
an I. w. w. to commit such an act at
this time"
Peter Daley of St. Paul, Mimi, who
was placed on trial with the |. w. w.
members, but was later released by
Judge Landis because of his physical
and mental condition, was taken INTO
custody tonight for questioning IN con,
nection with the explosion. Haywood
said that Daley practically had been
kicked out of the l. w. w. and that it
was foolish to connect him with the ex-
plosion. The organization dropped Mr.:
DALEY. he said. when he recently entered
the federal building despite an order OF
the government authorities that he re-
main away from the structure.
The bomb. which is believed to have:
consisted of at least three wlre-wrapped
steel cylinders, charged with high ex-
nlosiyes. was carried into the Adams
street entrance of the building during
one of the most busy periods OF the DAY;
Concealed in a suitcase and connected
with a time fuse the device was de-
posted behind radiator unnotlced by
the passing throng Nearly a hundred
nersons were in the corridor at the time,
at the stamp windows, writing desks and
letter registry division. 20
The explosion came Just at o:lU
o'clock. The force of the blast tore the
radiator from its fastenings and huried
# 20 feet into the street, where It struck
and killed a passing horse, smashed the
desks, uprooted great slabs OF marDie
from the walls and ground the WOOD &
work into splinters.