The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-05
OFFICIALS LAY CONSPIRACY
 AT DOOR OF THE 1. W. W.
Headquarters Of the Organization is Raided by Officials After the Ex- plosion-Haywood Was On ths Eighth Floor of the Building When the Explosion Took Place.

Chicago, Sept 4--Four persons were killed and more than 75 others -n- iured by the explosion of a bomb in | the crowded entrance to the federal 1 building at 3:10 o'clock this afternoon The explosion, the force of which
 was so great that 1t not only wrecked
 the entrance of the building, but shat-
 tered every window on the first three 1 floors Of two buildings across the street, was attributed to the I. w. w lby Phillip J. Barry, in charge of the
 local offices of the department of jus tice
 The lst of dead follows: William II. Wheeler. mail clerk; J B. Ladd, a sailor from the Great Lakes naval training station. whose home was in Salina, Kans.; F. R. Kolkov, a postal clerk; Miss Helen Michiki, of Chicago
 Raids on two headquarters or the II w w within fifteen minutes after the explosion resulted in the arrest of nine men. Several more we're taken into custody within the federal build ing and a woman whose name was suppressed was arrested in a nearby building Tonight more than 1 300 gov ernment agents and the entire city po- lice force was seeking the perpetrators of the outrage.
 The blast occurred directly beneath M Landis, where ninety five I. w. w.. leaders were recently convicted andl sentenced for obstructing the govern-' ments war program.
 William ID. Haywood, general sec-l retary of the I. W. w. and one of thosel sentenced to twenty years ir. prison, for his part in the conspiracy, was on the eighth floor of the building withI his lawyer. who was planning to seeIl writ of error in his behalf when thei explosion occurred He deplored thei outrage and while emphatically del nying that any of his men had commit-l ted the act. admitted that he helieveGi the l. w. w. would be blamed.
 'lPete" Dailey, of St Paul. Minn., who was placed on trial with the other, l. w. w. members but was later re- leased by Judge Landis because of his physical and mental condition was taken nto custody for questioning in connection with the explosion early tonight
 Haywood said that Daley practical ly had been dropped from the L w. w and that it was foolish to connect him with the explosion. The organization dropped Bailey, he said. when he re- gently entered the federal building de- Ispite an order of the government au- thorities that he remain away.
 The bomb, which is believed to have consisted of at. least three wire wrapped steel cylinders charged with high explosive, was carried into the Adams street entrance of the building during one of the busy periods of the day. Concealed in suit case and connected with time fuse the device was deposited behind radiator un- noticed by the passing throng. Nearly a hundred persons were in the corri- dor at the time. The force of the blast tore the radiator from it's fasten-
 ings and hurled it twenty feet into the street where it struck and killed q passing horse, smashed the desks, up-
 rooted great slabs of marble from the walls, and ground the wood work into splinters. Flying debris cut into shreds
 several war posters and canvas ban
 ners stretched across the front en-
 trance and filled the treet with plaster
 stone and broken glass.
 | The streets outside were soon roped
 off by policemen and firemen and am lbulances and requiaitioned automo-