Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-17
BLAST IN new YORK
worst IN DECADES
Outrage One Of Many That
Have Been Perpetrated in
Last Fifty Years
SOME PLOTS NATIONWIDE

New York, Sept. II. THE explosion
in Wall street yesterday was the
eleventh great disaster that hos oc-
CURED in this city in the last fifty years.
The Staten Island ferryboat westfeld
disaster, in which eighty two persons
were killed or drowned and 125 injured,
probably holds first rank for fatalities.
1t occurred July 30, 1871. when the
boat had about 225 passengers on boartl
and was receiving more to make an ex-
cursion.
Next in number of lives lost was ''the
Park Place disaster" of Saturday, Au-
gust %, 1891, in which sixty one per
sons were killed and property damage
amounting to $500, 900 resulted from a
mysterious explosion at 6S to IA Park
place. 90 o..
The first great explosion within the
last decade occurred December 10, 1910,
when the building Of the subway caused
an explosion In front of the Murray
Hill Hotel. Five were killed. The prop
erty loss was estimated at 81 $50, 900.
The next big explosion which rocked
New York followed less than two months
later, February 1, 1911, when forty tons
Of dynamite exploded at the Communi. =.
paw terminal of the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey. Thirty were killed and
the property damage was estimated at
more than $4,000, 900.
Then followed the Black Tom eXplo-
sion of July 30, 1916, in which only
three were killed and ten injured. but
damage amounting to more than $780,
000, 900 resulted.
The "Kingsland" explosion, in which
the plant Of the Canadian Car and
Foundry Company was wiped out. jan
uary II, 1917. with property loss. ot
$1,000, 900, was the last big explosion
Of the war period. ...
Notable Bomb Outragcs
In the Inst decade there have been
seventeen notable bomb outrages in, the
United States. They are as follows:
October 2. 1910-Los Angeles
(Calif.) Times Building, blown up with
loss Of twenty lives. J. b. McNamara
and Milton A. Schmidt sentenced to
life imprisonment. and John j. Nc
Namara to fifteen years imprisonment.
lighted fuse found in front of Center
street court, this city, near magistrates s
bench no arrests.
February /. 1913-John Paul Farrell
confessed to having made and sent the
bombs which a year earlier had killed
Miss Grace Walker. of 103 West Sew
cnty seventh street; Mrs. Madeline
Herrera. Of 1913 Fulton avenue. the
Bronx, in 1913. and one which wrecked
the library of Judge Otto Rosalsky's S
home. Gil West 10th street. severely
injuring an inspector of the Bureau OF
Combustibles. Farrell was insane.
October 13, 1914-Bombs exploded at
st. Patricl's Cathedral and the rectory
Of st. Alphonsus's Church. this city.
March =. 1015-Frank Arbano and
Carmine Carbone arrested by the bomb
squad as they We're placing bomb in
st. Patrick's Cathedral. Both were an
archists. They were convicted and sem
fenced to indeterminate prison terms OF
from six to twelve years.
May 4. 1015--Five pounds of dyna :
mite exploded in front of the Bronx
Justice Weeks, who had sentenced white
slavers, was believed to have been aimed
at.
July .. 1915-Bomb exploded in the
Capitol at Washington. doing consider
able damage. Later Frank Holt. who
committed suicide in the Mineola Jail,
after having made an attempt upon J.
7. Morgan, confessed to this crime also.
Police Headquarters Attacked
July 5. 1915-Bomb wrecked the
doorway of basement of New York po =
lice headquarters; supposed to have
been the work Of anarchists no arrests.
July %. 1J1G-Preparedness Day pa =
rade in San Francisco was the occasion
Of the explosion Of an Internal machine,
causing the death Of ten persons. Thom :
as Mooney was sentenced to death for
the crime. but his sentence subsequently
was commuted to life Imprisonment.
October 25, 1916-Bomb wrecked
subway station at Lexington avenue and
10th street. Three labor agitators were