Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-06
Many Injured
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throughout the five boroughs to remain.
on duty until further notice. Men re-
porting for duty at midnight were held
in the station houses awaiting special
orders. prfl
A crowd Of more than 5000 filled
the streets in the vicinity of the ex-
ploSionS and taxed the efforts of $50
police reserves who sought to keep the
crowd back while firemen and subway
men searched the ruined stations for
possible victims of the explosions.
Edwin Bergdahl cashier in the
change booth on the Southbound side
of the 18th street station of the Broad
way line of the Brooklyn Manhattan
Transit company who was on the op-
poSite Side of the station from where
the explosion occurred, was knocked
from his stool by the force of the
blast.
Il was sitting in the change BOOTH"
Bergdahl said, "and there were two
women standing on the platform wait
ing for a train. There was rumble
and then deafeping roar, and I was
knocked off my stool to the floor.
When I arose the station was filled
with smoke and dust. It was several
minutes before I could see anything.
When the smoke cleared the two
what became of them. I think they
ran up the stairs and out of the sta
ton. When looked across the tracks
saw the station on the northbound
side was a mass OF Wreckage."
1Ioya
woman, who were injured in the ex-
ploSionS at 18th street and Fourth
avenue, were taken to Bellevue hospi-
tai. One of them, a man, was in a
serious condition with a fracture of
the skull. The head of screw was
imbedded in his head, doctors said.
The others were less seriously in
jured, most of them suffering from
shock, cuts and bruises.
One of the men less seriously in
jured was beaten by policeman when
he resisted arrest after the officer
caught him robbing store, the win
dows of which had been blown out by
the blast.
During the confusion a policeman
shot and wounded a man believed to
have been trying to rob passengers on
an l. r. T. train The train had pull
ed into the station shortly after the
explosion, the passengers we're in tur-
moil. A patrolman entered to quiet
them He sa with eman snatch
woman's pocketbook and run. He
called him to stop When the man
continued to run the patrolman shot
him.
Thomas P. Brophy, chief fire mar
shal in charge of the fire depart
ment's investigation would not commit
himself regarding the origin of the
explosions farther than to say that
they were apparently due to internal
machines"
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5 (P1--A ter
rifle explosion late tonight wrecked the
basement of Emanuel Presbyterian
church at And street and Girard
avenue, shattered all the windows in
the edifice and threw the neighbor-
hood into a turmoil Of excitement.
Police expressed the belief that a
bomb had been hurled through a base
ment. window OF the church, but said
this could not be definitely determined
until the wreckage was cleared away.
Fire followed the blast, which oc-
CURED about midnight, but the quick
response of a number of fire companies
quickly eXtinguished the blaze. No
one was injured.
A large hole was torn in the side
wall Of the church near the pavement
and the explosion shook buildings
within a radius of several blocks. The
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