Year: 1870

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 On Saturday evening, March 9th, dabolcal attempt wss made to assassinate half a dozen persons by means of powder, The explosion was intended to destroy the residence of Emil Grizar, the Belgian Consul at San Francisco We condense the annexed account from the BuHefin of March 2Ist

 Mr. Grisari absent from the city on visit to Europe, and is eIpencted to return in a few days During his absence his residence has been occupied by six of his friends, who have employed their own servants and kept bach elor's home, eating and sleeping in the build ing. Their names are: Sylvian Calm, of the house of Lazard Freres, EuGene Dewey, Iheo- dore Leroy, and the three brothers, and Rap hael Syvan and Henry Wei. Tn additionto the main building, there is two-story frame pulling standing n the rear of the lot, some 50 CT 50 fact from the kitchen, and entirely disconnected from 1t. la this building there are sitting room and two or three lodging rooms There'ws employed about the hoosa a French woman as chief cook and house. keeper, young ChinamaE as her assistant and white man who has charge of the rooms in the rear building. At about quarter ;o s o'clock terrific explosion took place under the houSe. The six gentleman had just finish ed their dinner and left the diung table, and were in the rooms of the rear building, The woman and Chinaman were standing together at small table in the kitchen, and tbe white servant or porter was in tbe rear building All fortunately were out of the reach of dan ger. The explosion is believed to have been produced by the ignition of a can of powder In the immediate vicinity the shock was so great as to arouse the entire neighboorhosd, and at once draw an immense crowd to the damaged building At the distance of block or two the report was supposed to be that Of cannon fired from some steamer off North the kitchen stood about 24 feet from the eX- plosive centre with their faces towards 1t. TheySSsay the floor seemed to be suddenly raised in front of them with such force as to throw them backward nearly off their feet The ex- plosivs material had been placed near the rear of the parlor floor and within foot or two of .he front end of the dining room The con- cusson lifted up and shattered the floors of both rooms, making complete wreck of many of the timSers and nearly all the furniture in that part of the house The floor directly over the powder was badly shattered; the door between the two rooms was torn entirely from it's hinges the top of the door frame and the sides were split and broken; the washbOards, Is feet of were torn away, and one-half the floor of the parlor was raised from its position. In front of the building was porch about five feet wide and Is feet long This, although 20 feet distant from the powder, was more com- plete wreck than any portion of the floor within the building A street car happened to bearly opposite the house when the explo- sion occurred. One of the lamps in the car was extingaiShsd by the shock. As the earth was jared at a considerable distance and buildings shaken, the first impression on the minds of many was that an earthquake had occurred. Ofthe six gentlemen whose names have been given, neither has any idea that he has an enemy in the world who would seek to take his life, aPd the entire afairsls wrapped in mystery