Show WRECKED BY DYMTE Washington Hotel Is Destroyed De-stroyed By Explosion 9 MANY LIVES IN JEOPARDY Frank JtfcKic Who Lived at the Golden Eagle Hostelry in the National Na-tional Capital Attempts Wholesale Murder by Dynamiting tho Structure Struc-ture He Then Blows His Brains Out With a Revolver A Search of His Room Disclosed Explosives Enough to Destroy an Entire Block 1 Vashington Sept 25The Golden Eagle hotel on the corner of New Jerry Jer-ry avenue anil D street woe dynamited dyna-mited early this morning by Prank McKle who subsequently committed suicide Between twenty and thirty guests were thrown from their beda by the explosion but only the proprietor Lewis Brandt and his wife were Injured In-jured the latter seriously ROOF BLOWN OFF The roof of the building was blown off and the Tailing wreckage crashed through to the basement leaving the structure as If wrecked I t by a tornado Every pane or gloss In the building and the adjoining structures was broken The explosion called out the lire department IN LOVE WITH DAUGHT1DR I MeKle had boarded at the hotel for years and had been treated as a member mem-ber of the Brandt family which Includes In-cludes a daughter Sophie with whom McKle Is said to have beer In love Brandt denies that there was any misunderstanding mis-understanding between the two Mc Klo remarked last night that he waN going to wait until Sophie returned from Germany with her mother and wan then going to his old home In Philadelphia Mm Drandt nnd her daughter returned about S oclock last night The wholesale murder followed this morning HcKIc with a pistol In his hand wus Sten by an employee of a lunchroom opposite the hotel Just before the shots were fired lKIE A SUICIDE When the explosion occurred a alight blaze sprang from the debris but It I was quickly extinguished by the firemen fire-men Brandt and his wIfe were rescued before many of the thirty guests of the establishment had reached the port I of the building In which McKles Toom as located MeKlc with revolver Hutched In his hand was found lying 1 on the floor with his head In a pool of blood A bullet hole near the right car had caused Instant death I Brandt was bruised about the body and badly shaken up and received a severe cut on the left Ieg Mrs Brandt sustained bruises about the body and a cut hand handDYNAMITE DYNAMITE IX TRUNK I When the wrecked building was searched today enough dynamite was found In McKIes trunk to blow up a block of buildings There were six holP sticks and parts of two or three brolcen sticks together with a box oft of-t and a quantity of wire for long distance explosion He had at least I nine sticks of dynamite in his possession 1 posses-sion 1 MeKle was about 2S years of age He I was formerly of Philadelphia and had relatives in Chicago His brother Harry tIcKle was killed In Chicago last year according to a telegram fount In the dead mans room today McKle was a machinist In the navy yard here but resigned on Inheriting i upwards of 20000 about four years ago This amount he In said to have lost on the races and his act Is accredited ac-credited by some to this loss Detec tives are Investigating the case WAS DELIBERATELY PLANNED An uncle of MeKl < > who was located today In Philadelphia telegraphed to Major Sylvester the Chief of Police hat I he would come to Washington and taki charge of the remains of the dead man McKic Is known to have Inquirer In-quirer regarding the effect of the ex uloslviH and there seems no doubt that the explosion was deliberately planned |