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T T t I-t iS a Bomb I New York was i ted to a sensational sensa sousa- sensa I tragedy on ji th th by which four men lost lest their lve a and ad d others others wore were badly hurt hurt I The story is that at 1215 Friday afternoon a small smal well dressed dressed wel-dressed ap parenty about 35 years of age carrying a aleather a ft aleather leather loather bag bg called caled at Russell Russel Sages Sage's office on the second floor 1001 of No 71 Broadway and asked for Mr Sage age lie le was told that Mr Sage was busy and could not be seen The Teman man persisted and ana continued to t talk in a a loud ton tone Mr Mr Sage who was in an inner office came camo out to see what was the matter matier He le asked the man what was wan wanted td Th The Tha man said I demand a private interview with wih you Mr Sage inquired with wih what he ho could oblige e him hm The Tho than man man with the tho tle satchel re replied 10 ro- ro plied pled Wo We want want said eld ho be slowly and distinctly dis dis- dis and now We Ve want it Mr 1 Sage started back but Instantly recovering re no- covering his pr presence ce of mind said it was wasa wasa a a great geat deal of money and he would think about it I. I He knew that ho he was dealing with wih a crank and was talking for lor time nut Dirt subterfuges were vero in vain with wih this crank Ho He le had no no time to wait and he said soWe soWe so so We cannot wait I told your clerk our business was urgent The money is wanted now In this thi satchel I have havo dynamite dyna dyna- mite pounds mite mit pounds of it it Unless you hand over the money up she goes Mr Sage made madene one ne more moro attempt to torn tern He had not the te money ho he said i his visitor a again ain At the tho word the man made mado an angry gesture and raised the satchel at a arms arm's s 's length You will wi not noW he said Then here goes gocs An explosion followed which almost raised the roof of ot the tho building and Mr Sa Sage e was blown clear lear through the doorway doorway doorway door door- way of his private office and across the tho room Ho lie landed in a a bank of rubbish The stranger was thrown throw against the partition partition par par- and fragments of his bis body were af afterwards afterwards afterwards af- af found frightfully mangled The Tho persons in Mr Sages Sage's office at the tho time Ume of the explosion on Mr Sage his brother in law brother law Colonel Slocum C. C E. E James B. B BF F F. Norton ot of Far Rockaway C C. V. W. v. v Osborne of Brooklyn and Mr Menzies attaches of the tho office Frank Robinson of Bergen Point Point a messenger and the bomb thrower All Al of f these were either killed hilled or more moro or less severely injured Injured The wounded ones were taken to O'Connell's drug store across the their injuries were vere attended When the explosion occurred there was wasa a great geat rush of air from flom below The Tho building building build build- ing rocked i and shook and the tho floors seemed to rise up Everywhere the walls wals were cracked and big bil lumps of plaster loosened from flom the cell gf fell fel with a crash The panic in the was something awful People ran over and trampled up upon upon up- up up on each other in their mad haste baste to get down tho the stairways stairway The Tho office where the explosion occurred was terribly wrecked and the tho floor sa sagged ged six inches Russel Sage after the explosion groped his way out of the passage His t lace faco ce and hands were dripping with blood Ho lie was almost unconscious s. s Two men carried carrie him down stairs and across Broadway to a drug store A few fow minutes later Mr Slocum his br brother law brother law in-law came came rushing down stairs His hands were bleeding and there thoro was a gash on one side of his hi head He Ho was also carried to the tho drug store Mr S q hes ge's e clerks with wih ringing ears cad aha all R es st deafened blind and weak with dust and nd blood staggered out out into the hall hail bal and foil fell foI rather than walked down the tie stairs They were cared for at the drug store storo as were vere others who were injured I Almost by bYa a miracle Mr Sa Sage e escaped death and at night h he was vas reported as not I having been seriously hurt hart beyond a few bruises i The The dynamite fiend fend was blown to pieces his bis head hoad and legs being separated from his bis body He Hels Heis is supposed to have been Hiram D. D Wilson Wison a man who being driven to insanity by the loss of property has bas been incarcerated in several asylums Occasionally Oc 00 Oc- Oc he has been discharged as cured or has made mado his escape Upon these occasions occasions occasions occa occa- ho be has visited rich men and demanded demand demand- ed large sums of money threatening their lives if I refused R Russel Sa Sage e has lately received numerous threatening letters presumably from Wilson Wison who demanded B. B F. F Norton of Far Rockaway F. F J. J Menzies a clerk clerI for Sage and one other man were wore killed beside Wilson Wison One Ono or two other clerks will wi probably die |