Show JOY TURNED TO SORROW Marriage of King Alfonso is Followed by Attempt on Life of Royal Couple Bomb Thrown From a Window and Sixteen Persons Killed While Many Others Are Badly Injured King and Queen Escaped Es-caped Injury Ma trlttTho public rejoicings over I the marriage of King Alfonso and Princess Victoria had a terribly dramatic dra-matic sequel at 230 oclock Thursday afternoon as a bomb thrown from an upper window exploded with deadly effect ef-fect near the conch occupied by the king and queen Providentially King Alfonso and Queen Vnclorla escaped when an electric wire deflected the bomb but at least sixteen persons most of them belonging to tho personal person-al nn4 military escorts were killed Many others wore Injured Tho explosion occurred just as the royal couple wcro about to enter tho palace Tho route of the cortege had been diverted from Arsenal to Mayor street owing to tho popular desires Tho procession had just passed through Mayor street and was about to turn Into the Esplanade leading to tho palace when an explosion shook i i i iMsit KINO ALFONSO XIII tho buildings In tho vicinity stunning a largo number of people and throwing tho cortege into Inextricable confusion confu-sion Time royal coach was brought to a sudden stop by tho shock officers and I soldiers of tho escort falling to tho ground about tho oquerry and horses that had bean killed Tho screams of tho terrified multitude mingled with tho groans of tho dying It was immediately im-mediately seen that tho royal coach was intact except as it had been damaged dam-aged by flying splinters King Alfonso a pJ PRINCESS ENA OP BATTENIIEHQ immediately alighted and assisted Queen Victoria out of tho carriage Then they entered another conch and were driven swiftly to the palace Tho place from which tho bomb was thrown is n boarding house Tho chamber from which the missile was hurled was taken May 22 by a man from Barcelona giving tho name of Moral When tho police surrounded tho houso tho man attempted to flee hut was captured Another man escaped es-caped over tho roofs of houses Tho Indignation of tho people over tho tragedy was very great Some French detectives wore almost lynched I merely becauso they had a foreign appearance ap-pearance After tho outrage a visitors vis-itors book was opened at the palace It was signed during the afternoon by tho foreign prltces envoys ullilomats ministers and officials of all ranks As a curious coincidence It is just j a year ago Thursday that a bomb wan thrown at King Alfonso In Paris As the king accompanied by President Ixiubet was driving away from a per formanco at the opera May 31 1005 an anarchist threw a bomb at tho royal carriage It struck a trooper ol tho curalsscr escort on the shoulder fell to the ground nnu exploded without with-out wounding the king or tho president presi-dent who continued their drive to tho Palais DOrsay |