| Show BOMB EXPLODED BEfORE AN AlTAR IN IH ST PEWS PETERS Historic Edifice Crowded With Wor Worshipers W Worshipers or but Fortunately No NoOne NoOne NoOne One Was Injured Universal Horror and Indignation Over the Outrage Explosive sive Intended for the Pontiff Rome Nov IS The local ocal police have been informed that several people who are in Ih the habit of ot renting windows along alon g the route usually tak n by royal per personages personages have hae been approached by mysterious persons who vho wish to rent not only windows but entire rooms for the day da when the tIie king of Greece arrives arr es here herd The police believe this evidence of an anarchist plot like the one at Madrid on the occasion of or the marriage of ot King Alfonso against King Victor Emmanuel and ana the king of Greece King George of ot Greece G reece la Is t expected here Nov 23 3 on a visit to the king of ot Italy Rome Nov o 18 ISA A bomb was exploded in St Peters today The edifice was crowded and an Indescribable scene of ot contusion confusion fol lot followed followed lowed There were no fatalities As soon as a the echoes of the tremendous tremendous tremendous dous roar had ceased a canon sought by reassuring words to quiet the peo people people pie but in vain They tIed lied in all dl di i r and a n number of women faint ed Women omen and children screamed and tried to protect their families in the i rush The church is so large luge however hat there was ample room for the crowd to scatter and no one was in injured Inured InJured No trace of ot the perpetrator of ofle ahe le he deed has been found f Since Saint who was or rc by Peter himself erected an or orf in 90 A D on the site of ot the f I present basilica to mark the spot where the remains of or St Peter are buried burl d no such suh dastardly occurrence is noted in inthe Inthe the annals of o the church Dedication Anniversary Today was the anniversary of ot the dedication of ot the basilica to St Peter an ai J it was beautifully bea decorated for br the theo 0 o Holy Hol relics were exposed and andT T large number of the faithful attended the services Cardinal for formerly merly papal secretary of state was imong mong those present He took part in ref service in the choir chapel The Thea Theat ii a at t mass mafS had just been concluded when 4 the Ule explosion occurred and only ont one who had not quite finished re remained remained at the altar of St Peter This liar Is at the end of right aisle and it near here the bomb had been beell As s th canon anon turn dtp tp bless the com corn cornI 11 I 1 ht ro was as tremendous roar hil echoed through 1 f arches arche 4 ft r f the Immense dome like a thunder At the samo sarn time a dense smoke smokes spread s 1 i this portion of the rod lUd a n strong tron stron odor of gun pow poV po pon n fr r filled t the air Panic at Once Prevailed and an panic at once seized It n A people The rh canon at the altar f ra cJ 10 w s stem tem the tide of fear He shouted out Do not be afraid it Is merely merel the noonday noonda gun His had little effect They The were re ye rethe Y v the smoke and the pungent nel of f powder and the people contin r 1 their headlong flight night Chairs were making malting the confusion contusion more Men Ien and women fled rag ln ir all directions the screams of and cries of oC anguish were wert 1 I rd on all sides and for tor a few mm ues US It Jt seemed as aJ though nothing could a grave disaster The rhe vast size sl e ef f I f f hurch however gave room for fort fore t e crowd to scatter and at the end of i a 1 J few pw moments the tile people oward oard the thi doors excited and nervous nerous Jt orderly R soon loon as RR s the smoke cleared away a 1 i lOty ty examination showed that nobody had bad been hurt in the crush rub and further furthermore more ore rp that no one had been wounded by byth th explosion Calm aIm was wa gradually re reel ret t 1 el et anti and some ome of ot the people returned ev tie the extent of the damage I r Bomb Under Scaffolding V was wa that the bomb had hadi i rn placed under urd r a scaffolding that d tj bev be ben n erected to facilitate repairs to tot toP t P 1 roof exactly exact over the celebrated to t tob nb b of Clement lement XIII by Canova which of a figure of ot the pope and tO lions and which is the most re I piece of sculpture in the ba ha bas s lea 13 1 ca This tomb ranks among the fin fine finC ct e C efforts of modern sculpture and by q c Canova established his reputation When the first gendarmes reached I 4 the tte spot the scaffolding was found to tot t 1 r but taut this fire was easily p The tomb was found to tol Jv IF l ur Injured and a d even en the pavement hows scarcely any an signs of the on n Il An examination for the remains of It the bombs bomb leads to the 1155 it was crudely prepared on pur purpose pose Jose to mislead that it was I ired In the country and brought into Kome Jome It Is believed that the bomb homb lid a n very long fuse fus in order to enable the criminal to gain the exit It has been beon Impossible to trace him and no noC C 1 has any an recollection of seeing a aan aan aan an who by b his movements might have roused suspicion Pope Pius Plus Horrified The pope was waa engaged in his regular roon hour devotions when the bomb bombI M went ent off He heard hear a sound hound I surprised by did tot rot alarm him Monsignor Us of hc the apostolic palace and Monsignor major domo dOllO of ot the Vatican Y at atone u once one hurriedly entered the th pontiffs chamber They were so BO pale that the pope Im Immediately mediately asked What has hap pred 7 Do not be alarmed holy father Cather t was as the answer A bomb has exploded ed In the t he basilica but fortunately there are no deaths to deplore and no noone noone noone one has been wounded The pontiff asked anxiously if It the church had been damaged Upon being reassured he fell upon his knees say sa saing ing lag he must implore mercy for the mis misguided misguided misguided guided perpetrator of ot the deed Scon after this announcement was made to him the pope went to the throne room where he admitted to private vaLe ate audience Monsignor Kennedy Kenned rec TC rector rector tor of the American college who pre presented presented presented to his holiness Mr r and Mrs rs Louis J I McCloskey of Philadelphia and andr Mr r Paul S King of ot New York who noticed that Hlat the Ule pope was pale and la ha labored labored bored under some emotion After Arter this reception the pope proceeded to the hall of the consistory where he received about persons including twenty five students of South American col college college lege hege to whom he delivered a short address addre s None of the persons knew anything about the explosion SIgnor Massimini Italian minister of finance was eating lunch at the Cafe Aragno when he heard the news He immediately took a cab and drove to St Peters where he met a number of or orthe the papal authorities including Count Camillo Peed Pecci a nephew of Leo XIII anti and commandant of the Palatine guard The explosion produced no alarm out outside outside outside side the basilica the sound being taken I by b every one for the noonday noonda gun oun but by b bI afternoon the news was known all IJ over Oer I the city and a stream of at people eople went ent through the church to view the result of the explosion slon Nervousness in Rome There Is a certain nervousness in the city and people are nrc apt to magnify magnU the I This waa aft noon when the explosion of a firecracker in the new tunnel above which stands the Quirinal caused considerable excite excitement excitement excitement ment and alarm people fearing another bomb outrage It was soon discovered however that the cracker had been set setoff setoff setoff off by b a boy bo as a joke Every Eer piece of the bomb that could be found was gathered up by b the police and carefully examined The bomb II evidently consisted of a larze large tin bos box I bound tightly together with wire of two sizes It must have contained more than I two pounds of gunpowder and three pounds of nails The nails were of ot three I sizes size some seven seen inches long and so heavy eavy that the force of the explosion them only a short distance The nails were enveloped in lit newspapers dated Nov IB 1 and 17 I proving that the bomb was prepared either yesterday or today toda Cardinal l Miry Merry lerI del Vat Val t tIle the th papa papal see sec of state slate was in the Borgia apart apartment apartment ment busily busH at work with his hI private I secretary at noon and aad did dat not hear th the explosion Intended for Plus Pius The rumor having ha spread t r rJ abroad that thai the pope intended to visit St S1 Peters to ta day da to pray pra before the tomb where the outrage c was committed drew an large crowd to the basilica This rumor was unfounded for only Cardinal entered with the procession A three days das service It nice of prayer pray r will be bc celebrated in all the churches in expiation of this offense off nse to religion This Thi bomb explosion makes the tile third anarchist out outrage outrage rage ra e in Italy In four tour days lays the other two being the murder of Professor Rossi In Naples yesterday and the explosion lon of ofa a bomb in front of o the Cafe Caf ano In I this city on Nov XO li It I Universal Horror The attempt of today toda has caused deep I I seated and universal horror and antI I tion on account of the locality selected I by the thc miscreants and the ille resentment of i the people is very great St l Peters is If th the greatest basilica in Christendom It took 2 O years ears oa in the building and stands today toda a result of the efforts of popes pOllet and the ge genius genius genius of Michael Angelo Bramante and Raphael The fhe commission of such sueh an out outrage outrage outrage rage In such a place nas has called forth nn limited condemnation and nail is ie I character as proving that the perpetrators of the thO th crime were actuated by b feelings worse than those which moved moed the Van Yan dais dals dal and the Saracens The theory theo is held that this attempt was not directed against the papacy but rather a challenge to society In general by b attacking religion the most sacred acred I Institution of or the people |
