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Show ' flTTEWIPT MADE TO '. BLOW UP BUILDING , f Bomb Thrown Through Window of the Consolidated Consol-idated Wagon & Ma- chine Company's Salesroom Sales-room by Persons Thought to Be Trying ito Avenge Death of Hillstrom. t .SPRY IS DIRECTOR OF CORPORATION Officers Who Hear Explosion Ex-plosion Find Window Shattered and Pieces of Gas Pipe and Smouldering Smoul-dering Paper Scattered About the Floor. H " A lead pipe filled with explosive was thrown through a rear "window of the . 11 Consolidated Wagon & Machine torn JS pany s building, at 146 150 bonth State street, at 11 ?n loo niolit The bomb strnek against the heavy wnlw easing and rpi4elwitha land report. Because Governor William ''pry 13 a heavy stockholder and director In tW concern it is believed by the po bee that members of the I W W or others attempted to demolish the structure to avenge the death of Joseph Jo-seph HiTlgtrom. J O Olsen, night watchman for the company heard the crash of glass and rushed to the loft-deck. On the floor lay scattered fragments of lead and smoldering newspaper Extinguishing these he ran to the street and called Patrolman T J Me-Dermott Me-Dermott The two men searched the alley back of the plant but there was no trace of the men. Outside of he window they found heavy bfiek Smudges of powder Underneath the window they found bits of glass and chunks of lead Great Damage Possible. Po ice officers familiar with explosives declare that had the bomb entered the building before It exploded It would have done great damage. The Conso Idated "Wagon & Machine company employs about eighty-one per sons in the State street plant. The build lng 1b separated Into the large ground Coot showroom contalnlns stock valued at approximately 1100 000 consisting of wagons and vehicles of all kinds Above this floor there Is a deck running around he building The business office and re Jalr department are on this deck. The w ndow through which the bomb was hrown opens off the deck. It is ap proached on y through an alley running directly west from the rear door of the Pekin cafe one or two doors south of the ding of the wagon company on State Street. The window Is equipped with unusually heavy g ass. The window Is about wo feet square It is be leved that the pipe struck the widow casing and ex p oded against the nine inch brick wall and ha on y a few pieces of the ma ch ne reached the inter or Officers Hear Explosion. De ec Ives Frank G enn and W S B own were eat ng in the Pek n cafe A when the sound of the exp os on rattled the d shes on the tables. The off cers ' ran a once to the al ey but no one was o be spen Char es Gee a Chinaman part owner of he cafe was working in the k tchen ' when the exp os on occurred He de a ed that he ran to the door bu that he ou dn t see in o he night because his eyes were b nded y the flare of his cook "loathed at he Hote Utah short y after hVexp os on Ge ge T Ode manager 7 he fa o y e ared hat he knew Vr no one who had anything aga nst him rinru v o he company P n,T ves James B Woodard and J i Fzbert a c wo k ng wit Detectives . and B own on the esse , sSon al ?er he e P os on Mr Ode 1 wept t H hu d ng He as re leved wheri u X ned ha e e dent purpose of he i 1 ha faied r have no dea of the motive of he I a ew e gas pipe th ough the JrL h sa d The thought occurred - " ha ma have been due to he " m k a e or Spry Is n eres ed In h ompan bu I rather th n that Is u hSifMKe is only .nom nal prac y Tbnrie m tact. I ton t be eve the ? ?J?. need was very powerfu How v cauSed a bad II |