Show 1 r r 1 i r BLACKBAND NOTE IS FOLLOWED BY HEA Vi EXPLOSION Three Story Structure on West Second South Is Scene of Crime in Which Women and Children Chil dren Suffer Police Start Investigation ONE WENTY-ONE ONE persons were trapped in their beds and ten Injured vat at t T TWENTY TWENTY ONE o'clock this morning when a a. powerful bomb exploded on the second floor of ot the Standard hotel West Vest Second South street The Interior of the three-story three hotel was wrecked and many of ot the i Inmates who w were women and children hUdren were crushed and injured In Inthe the ahe t v vI I L V t V tf t i debris k v. v r 7 i- i i y y j. j i iThe The assassin Is thought by the police to have placed the bomb to be avenged on on Mary Bruno a partner with Angelo Anselo In hi the cafe beneath the hotel According to Information gained by the police Mrs Bruno had received a a letter which was was' unsigned but which which threatened terrible vengeance vens for some fancied wrong Mrs Bruno recently petitioned for divorce f from om Tony Bruno He lIe is said to have brooded over over the affair and to have borne his former wife much ill in will NINE INJURED BY BLAST The most seriously injured were Mrs rs Bruno and her two children Irma Irnia Irn Bruno 11 and Angelina Bruno Angelina Bruno 4 years of age who received puncture wounds woun wounds s which covered most of their bodies The Tile children were ere were literally swathed in bandages from head to foot by the doctor doctor The others injured were I Thoma 48 years of age abrasions abrasions to right arm and foot Tom Rose 83 ribs fractured back injured and lacerations of the scalp John 32 laceration over left eye and bruised foot Angelo Bianchini 42 numerous bruises Fred Cota 25 laceration of left hand and both knees left hip and t thigh injured r i. i Mary 30 slight injuries i TWO EXPLOSIONS REPORTED Residents of ot the west side were startled when the tremendous explosions rent the air According to inmates of the hotel there seemed to be bo two II distinct explosions The first shook the building with tremendous force and brought many to their feet The second blast hurled the panic stricken people to the floor bleeding and injured and covered them with debris and timbers Women and children screamed frantically for help In the darkness s while dazed and naked half-naked men struggled from beneath the wreckage Many found it impossible to force open the door of their rooms and leaped from windows and crawled through transoms In the meantime a dispatcher at the Denver Rio Grande office turn turned d din in an alarm to the fire department and Chief W. W H. H Bywater sent the apparatus apparatus ap apparatus ap- ap from several of the stations to the scene FIRE CHIEF DESCRIBES SCENE When we arrived window sashes and glass lay on the opposite opposite- side of the street said Chief Bywater I sent at once for the ladder truck In order to rescue the inmates on the upper floors Absolute p panic prevailed d. d Many of the gl guests ests of the hotel were dug out of ot the tho most unexpected places bewildered and bleeding The firemen mounted the ladders and carried men women and children children children chil chil- dren safely to the ground The majority of the Injured were rushed to the emergency hospital while wh le others were ere conveyed to the county hospital where heroic work was performed by doctors and nurses FIREMAN RESCUES CHILD When all the guests were apparently accounted for tho the attention of ot Captain Walter Valler S. S Knight of the fire department was at attracted by the cries cries cries' of ot a foreigner who pointed insistently toward the the wrecked building Captain Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain Knight could not understand the man but plunged into the wreckage Beneath several huge timbers he found little Imra Bruno 12 12 years of age bleeding and unconscious but alive He carried the child to the ambulance and she was rushed to the emergency hospital According to Chief Bywater the injured would have e been cremated In their beds if the electric light wires had been short circuited d by the ex ex- ex Chief Bywater was at a loss to to understand how this thin was averted The force of the explosion was up and down according to Chief Bywater A huge hole holo near the office on the second floor Indicated the spot upon which the bomb is thought to have ha been placed I 1 POLICE BEGIN INVESTIGATION The police were summoned soon after the explosion slon and commenced an Investigation of the affair It is believed the bomb was placed directly over the bed In which Mrs Bruno and her two children slumbered The blast tore the Joists of the building both above and below belo the the se second ond story and shattered partitions partitions par par- in every everyone one of the rooms T The e pudding building was of brick and according to Chief Bywater It was of solid construction Had It been less firmly erected It would have caved in on the occupants and many lives wo would ld have hav been lost according to the firemen GUNPOWDER US USED D IN BOMB The bomb Is believed by the police to have been constructed of gunpowder gunpowder gun sun powder as the rescuers stated that the they detected the odor of powder as soon as as' they ent entered red the building Vh Whether t er there were two distinct explosions explosions explosions ex ex- has n not t been determined but It Is certain that If such was the case tho the Interval between the blasts was but an Instant in duration It was terrible said John a a- miner who was trapped In his room The explosion plunged the tho house In darkness For a few seconds after It came everything was as still as If everyone was wal dead Then the most awful shrieks and groans rent the air A A baby cried shrilly and my hair stood on end I 1 groped for the door and found it forced tight by the explosion I t CRAWLS THROUGH THE TRANSOM I J beat upon the door with my fists Then I 1 thought of ot the transom transom i and managed to crawl over It The hall seemed blocked and I do not know how liow I 1 reached the street Not until I was on the tha sidewalk did I realize tha that thai I had no clothes and sought cover It seemed I ds za s If help would never come and we could not reach the people on the upper Mrs Bruno came to Salt Lake Lako City from Standardville Utah rive five months ago Continued on page 1 j 4 j. j HUSBAND ANO OF F FW W WOMAN MAN I II S. S it I SOUGHT T j jI I jI I F police olice After Tony Bruno Brunoo to o Question Him in Regard to Explosion Which Injures Nine i 1 1 i Continued from page 1 1 SEARCH SEARCH FOR BRUNO allowing a a. complete examination of ot the wrecked building and interviews several foreigners in the vicinity the police commenced a vigorous s search arch for tor Tony Bruno husband huband of Mary Bruno Boarders at the Bruno restaurant aid td friends of ot the family say the relations relations rela rela- of ot the family have been anything b but t pleasant for several months Do- Do strife strite has brought the couple the courts several severa times and according according ac ac- cording to friends Mrs 1 Bruno visited a lawyer a-lawyer Wednesday for tor consultation in iii connection with her pending dl- dl THREATENED PARTNER Angelo partner of ot Mrs Bruno In the restaurant told the police po police polite po- po lice lite he had Incurred the avowed enmity of Bruno because of his business business business busi busi- ness relations with the latter's wife told the police that Bruno had threatened his life lite about two months ago lie He said he had accompanied accompanied accompanied Mrs Bruno and her two children chU- chU dren dzen to Saltair returning they met m-et a friend on the train At the depot th they y encountered Bruno he said The latter told according to his story to the police that he would kill him if he ever saw him with Mrs Bruno again BOUGHT INTEREST Several weeks ago says Bruno told his wife he was going to sell out the restaurant and turn her I out nut offered to give Mrs Irs Bruno the money to buy the establishment establish establish- establishment i ment and take a half Interest In the I business business' with her The offer otter was accepted accepted accepted ac ac- and paid Bruno the money took possession of the place and continued Its operation with Mrs Irs Bruno as partner occupied a room upstairs and Mrs Bruno and her two children slept in inthe the rear of the dining room below told the police that before Bruno left the city he broke into the place several times In the early carly mornIng morning morning morn- morn Ing hoping to find I and Mrs 1 Bruno together CONJE CONJECTURES TURES ON BOMB Chief J J. J Parley White who made an extensive investigation of the wrecked structure expressed the belief that the explosion was caused by several I sticks of ot dynamite It is believed the perpetrator attached a fuse tuse to the tho ax- ax explosive ex ex- II plosive lighted It and made mado his way from the building hurriedly Examination of ot the premises shows th that t the tho explosive was placed directly direct direct- t- t lyt ly over the spot where Mrs 1 Bruno a at ard d her two children were sleeping A As the tor force of a a. dynamite explosion Is downward more mor than a ton of plaster wood and mutilated furniture fell feU upon the bed below ROOMS WRECKED Where were six rooms on the second second second sec sec- ond floor and each one was almost totally wrecked Partitions were thrown outward from the spot where th the bomb was placed hurling them Into Ino the rooms where guests were sleeping The beds were broken and an twisted by the impact and virtually every piece of furniture in the rooms w was s shattered Every room in the 1 hotel ho hotel el was as occupied The escape of ot I many of the guests is held by officers officers oUi- oUi 1 cers to to be nothing less than a miracle The hotel is operated by Mrs A. A Falsetti who although covered with debris while sleeping In her bed escaped es escaped escaped es- es without injury She was rescued rescued res res- cu cued d from the building by being carried carried carried car car- ried down a ladder from a window b by firemen SAW BAW BRUNO IN TOWN Tom Rose a lodger who vho received slight ht injuries told the police pollee he saw Ton Tony Bruno no in to town n last Saturday a He lie I of the re restaurant taura as ib appeared it before the bomb bomb explosion today The upper 1 arrow indicates the spot over ovet which the bomb was placed on the floor above The lower arrow points to the position of the bed in which Mrs Mary Bruno and her two children were sleeping In fore foreground reading from left to right are Mrs Bruno Irma and Angelina Bruno and Angelo Ratting partner of Mrs Bruno in the restaurant This picture was taken only a few I days ago m me e a y t. t ti t iY 1 t v j aY t L a r r it s v p c 5 sr e iLy Lf BIG said ald he knew Bruno well welt and that he was positive It was he No others could be found by the police who had seen the tho husband of ot the woman against whom the tho plot was directed Ton Tony Costanzo a young Italian who was sleeping in one of ot the worst wrecked rooms gave a humorous account ac account account ac- ac count of ot the grim tragedy when questioned questioned questioned ques ques- by the police He said the floor loor of ot the room upstairs fell on him and the ceiling of ot the room roam downstairs downstairs downstairs down down- stairs gave way from under him HES HE'S THANKFUL When I woke up dat floor loor ees alia ally cover da bed he told tho the officers Da building he fall I sleep and I no can getta out I Iam Iam Iam am excite alta alia right I r no wanta st stay y dat place so I Jusa punchy hole een da da feest and come out eon cen hurry I losa losada losada losada da clothes but I still gotta da health The hotel building is the tho property of the Denver Investment company Denver Colo It was fully fulty insured for fire tire according to Hugh W W. Smith secretary of ot the company but as no fire resulted fro explosion he ho says It is improbable damages can be collected Mr 11 Smith estimated the tho damage at approximately |