Salt Lake Herald | 1900-11-27 | Page 1 | Infernal Machine Sent to Salt Lake Merchant

CHINE SENT TO SALT LAKE M MERCHANT Mailed raile at Versailles V France But It Never Reached I Its Destination Special to The rhe HeraldS Herald Chicago Nov 26 The discovery di overY of S what is to be he an infernal ma machine machine machine chine that had become ignited on 01 a n amail amail mail car last week created consternation consternation tion among the employees in in the Chi Chicago Chicago cago cage postoffice where the machine was sent C B Armstrong a clerk who wh opened the package e is disposed to doubt its deadliness but he is i an ex cx exception exception to the general belief that the parcel was meant to kill The box about eight inches long and four inches in height and width was mailed from Versailles France to a II merchant of Salt Lake City It was no po noticed first in a mail car cai between Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha and Ogden last Thursday by b the th clerks who saw smoke l coming from a amail amail mail bair bac The bag hag was opened and the package found to he be smoldering Through a ahole ahole ahole hole that had been burned in the top the ends of several metallic cartridge oases ses were seen and it was sent to the Chicago After a cursory examination the clerks here pronounced the box a new type of infernal machine and when Armstrong volunteered to open it they hastily withdrew to await the explosion explosion sion gion His investigation tion revealed rE noth nothing nothIng ing lag tangible as the contents of the package had been burned Each cartridge case had been wrapped separately sep in paper and no evidence of an arrangement for a sim simultaneous simultaneous explosion could be found The cases were filled with the aslies fues a of an unknown substance The mys mysterious mysterious mysterious package has been sent to Wash Washington WashIngton ash ington ton for chemical analytis