Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-06
Score Injured
as 28th Street
Area Is Rocked.
ENTIRE POLICE
FORCE ON DUTY
Stores i'm Rochester
and Chicago Also
Are Damaged.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. August 6.-Fvery
subway and elevated station in New
York was placed under heavy police
guard today in determined attempt
to prevent further activities OF bomb
ers-believed in some quarters to be
Sacco Nanzetti sympathizers - who
shortly before midnight wrecked
two subway stations in the Madison
Square district. tcrrorizing thousands
and injuring more than score.
The Federal Government took a
hand in the investigation this morn
ing. assigning Department OF Justice
agents to assist police OF the bombs
squad and Bureau of Combustibles
in their search for clues.
The two bombs were exploded al
most simultaneously in the Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit station at Broad
way and Twenty-eighth street. just
above the Flatiron Building, and the
marlborough Rapid Transit station,
at Fourth avenue and Twenty eighth
street, adjacent TO the site OF the
old Madison Square Garden,
The bombs exploded with such
force that walls of masonry were
torn away, holes were blown upward
through the sidewalk. kiosks at the
subway entrances were practically
demolished and windows OF surround
;,,rr h,,;l Fz,
stories up from the street.
Dozens Thrown From Seats.
BY fortunate coincidence a train
was in neither station when the ex-
plosion occurred. although in one in
stance train was approaching at
the time and the brakes were applied
so suddenly that dozens of passengers
were thrown from their seats.
The only clue in possession OF in
Vestigators this morning was small
iron box, smelling strongly OF nitro.
glycerine. found in the wrecked 4.
NJ. L. station. The box. locked with
brass paddock. was taken to police
headquarters for examination by
experts of the bomb squad
W hen the bombs exploded under
GROUND passengers and street crowds
Infown into immediate confusion
me lights went out in the subway
making more difficult the task IF
ponce IN ascertaining whether anv
one had been killed and i'm carrvinr
Inc injured to ambulances which
were rushed TO the scene from all
available hospitals. "''
All Officers Recalled.
foiice Commissioner Warren tbis
morning Cancelled all Vacations ns
policemen and recalled to duv al
nose on vacation who were within
reach- Uniformed men We're nlaced
on every station platform. and n,ain
."thes investigators were aSsienad
~ ''aFel on the trains and circi,late
cio"us on the platforms
dan,int ice -, Selgei year-old
charged with suspicion ~ i,r,I: ,Ul"F
tion in the bombing of tho ,r,,!a,.'
eighth Street Station of the 7 r ~
subway shortly before midnieht.
Asks Holding Without Rail
assistant District Attorney Rvan
VINO ls IN charge of the investigat;nn
OF Inc bombing of two subwaW So
IONS Iast night, said that he had ra.
t"nS'Th tfiat Seigel be held without
pan because of his unusual and
go "p'tIois manner, during question.
"s alter detective had stopped him
as he was attempting TO enfa, IN e.
fatflck $ Cathedral a few hours aftn,.
the bombings. "iIe
Ryan said Selgel acknowledged that
ne was an anarchist. saving thar he
iiad come from Russia ia years ago
.'ah oeclined TO say Just what mart
,7eisei was suspected of having taken
IN Inc bombing. combining himself In
general statements.
ascertained from Seigel," he said
mat he was arrested in Snokane
WASH, three years ago as a yaprant
| ior luflherlng an unconstructive
movement"
Seigel denied that he had anv
hlo"leoSe of the bombings or anv
interest IN the Sacc0-Vanzetti case
oeNond the fact that he did NOT believe
III capital punishment.
TWO men found in tho Esst c;d.
subway of the Interboroush RI xyora
taken INTO custody TODAY.
Both are Released.
one OF Them, who gave his name
as Stanley luke, 81. was found NV a
Hlotoffnan In track walkers dugo,,t
recess IN the walls. The motorman n
stopped his train and took him TO the
piattorm, where he was Joined bv n
ooihl'a mon. Chester Gablowsky. also
-. 1hey said they were residents of
scranton. Pa. luke said his hat had
! hiown off. while waiting for train
ana ne had stepped onto the tracks to
! retrieve it,
luke and Gablowsky were released
after being questioned two hours by
members of the bomb squad.
Oscar Teifer. who was standing on
me opposite platform Of the 3. nj. r..
station, at Broadway and Twenty
eiShth street, from where the ex-
piosion at midnight occurred. said.
IT seemed like the whole town" was
falling on him.
was waiting for a train and was
walking up and down the pla form" ;"
he said My wife had gone 10 the
, restroom. Before | knew what had
| happened there was a flash, and I
| was fiat on my face. 1t seemed like
| the whole town was falling on me.
| remember breathing some of the
| dust and trying to get up to find
my wife. Then I lost consciousness.
When woke up the station was
black. Not a light. ! groped to the
restroom and found my wife lying