American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-09-06


cagO Police.
A bomb exploding in the entrance
Of the federal building at Chicago
/ Wednesday afternoon killed four per-
sons and wounded seventy-fve others
The blast was attributed to the l.
W. W. by Philip ]. Parry. acting chief
Of the local federal investigation bu-
reau.
While the city police were rushing
the wounded to hospitals, federal
agents hurried from the building and
made two raids on l. W W. headquar-
ters. Nine men We're bagged at these
places and woman was grabbed in a
nearby office building Her identity
is being kept secret
4 The explosion wrecked the entrance
OF the building and shattered every
window in the first three floors of two
buildings across the street. The
courtroom Of Judge Kenesaw NJ. Ian
dis, where ninety-hve l. W. W cad
ers We're given prison sentences a few
days ago, is on the sixth floor of the
federal building.
Pete Daley of st. Paul. Mimi. who
was placed On trial with the other L
w. w. members, but was later releas-
ed by Judge Lands because Of his
physical and mental condition. was
taken into custody for questioning in
connection with the explosion early
Wednesday night.
The bomb which is believed to have
consisted of at least three wire-wrap-
ped steel cylinders, charged with high
explosive, was carried into the Adams
b street entrance of the building dur
ing one Of the most busy periods of
the day. Concealed in a suitcase and
p connected with time fuse, the device
was deposited behind radiator un-
noticed by the passing throng Near
: ly hundred persons were in the cor
e ridOr at the time at the stamp win
! dows, writing desks and letter reg
istry division.
{ The explosion came just at $40
r o'clock The force of the blast tore
the radiator from its fastenings and
h hurled it twenty feet into the street.
+ where it struck and killed a passing
b horse. smashed the desks. uprooteG
It great slabs of marble from the walls
d and ground the woodwork into splin-
T ters.
o Flying debris cut into shreds sever
d al war posters and canvas banners
e stretched across the front of the en-
It trance and filled the street with plas-
IS ter, stone and broken glass.
h Directly across the way every pane
ID of glass in the first three floors of the
y Commonwealth-Edison and Mar
r. Quette buildings was blown in upon
f. the occupants of offices. stores and
De restaurants. Many of the injured
ST We're cut by these flying fragments.
Every person in the corridor where
IN the explosion took place was hurled
at to the floor and their cries soon filled
at the building and halted the first panic
es stricken rush of the uninured 10 es-
ne cape from other entrances.
e- The streets outside were soon roped
X off by policemen and hremen and am
in balances and reQuisitioned automo-
Sc biles began the work of rushing the
victims 70 nearby hospitals Within
half an hour a detail of sailors from
the Great Lakes naval training sta
y ron and a detachment of home guards
fa- with liked bayonets took up the task
ne of keeping back the crowds.
ID This outrage, in my opinion. was
EN- inevitable as an act of reprisal on the
lse part of the l. w W." Mr. Barry de.
ta clared after a hurried investigation
ill following the sentencing Of nearly q
re- hundred of their members. We ar,
is certain that the T. W W committed
ars this deed I believe that the boml
he was composed of nitroglycerine. Sev
eral arrests have been made and We
The are questioning the prisoners as fas
er- as we can. All the persons known t.
ng be of radical thought viii be brough
Sc in for examination"
al, Dynamiter l. Under Arrest.
In the score or more persons az
Ia rested yesterday in connection viii
Ips the Federal building bomb outrage II
he which four persons were killed an,
an thirty injured. Philip j. Barry, actinl
m head of the local bureau of the de
IN partment of justice. believes that h'
he has either the culprit or one who ha!
he information which will lead to his ar
ch rest
ny He is said to have definite suspicion!
an with regard to one OF the men and {,
ity have obtained important information
from him.
ak The first effect Of the American
n governments action. state department
IN officials said. will be in the opening
of Of the way to furnishing much-needed