| Show ED IN OF SIX KILLED AND FORTY FIVE IN BY INFERNAL MACHINE AT SAN FRANCISCO explosion occurred during preparedness parade blowing gap through crowd maiming men women and children san francisco six persons were killed and forty tour four were injured by the explosion of a timed bomb at the corner comer 0 of stewart and market streets saturday afternoon during the preparedness pa redness parade the deed is generally attributed to a mind unbalanced by arguments for and against preparedness which have occupied attention here lately frank josephson a lodger in a sailors boarding house has been arrested on suspicion when arrested he cried 1 I do it I 1 do it the bomb concealed in a suitcase packed with cartridges bullets gas pipe glass and scrap iron blew a gap through the crowd blasting men women children and babies the one story building against w which aich the suitcase stood was wrecked the holiday throng cheering a contingent of 0 veterans ot of the first california infantry of the spanish ameri can war became a shambles the blare ot of fitly fifty bands and the roar ot of drums drow drowsed lied the cries ot of the injured two women standing beside me were blown to bits said one woman mrs kinsley van doom of 0 oakland who with her two children was injured the police say it is possible that some bodies were blown out of 0 existence every possible precaution police officials said was taken but the innocent looking suitcase standing where a country visitor of whom there were thousands might have set it down attracted no attention the force of the bomb was astonishing Hand stuls ot of empty revolver and rifle shells blown through the crowd by the explosion were picked up in the gutter by souvenir hunters A piece of lead pipe was blown two blocks into the northwestern pacific waiting room in the ferry building A womans comans gold watch presumably belonging to one of the victims was blown through the air and landed in a fruit stand a block and a half bait away through the violence the parade wended bended without a break the veterans of the grand army of the republic waiting in steuart street to fall into line escaped death by a hair and proceeded with the march an ambulance summoned to care lor for a fainting spectator stood across the street when the explosion occurred the patient had his leg fractured and a man aiding the att attendants fell with a fractured skull but the ambulance steward was uninjured ile he placed both men and some other victims in his ambulance and rushed them to a hospital all the newspaper offices in san francisco feancisco on friday received a communication muni cation written in roman scrip with an indelible pencil many of the words being heavily underscored warning them that things are going to happen but the warning was regarded as a hoax |
