Show N THE Of A I ANSAS 11 Y NATIONAL BANI I KANSAS CITY Mo Jan 4 A A bomb exploded d in the basement of tho the magnificent stor marble building of the First National bank at It the corner corner corner cor cor- ner of Tenth an and Baltimore streets in the tho business s center a few minutes after af nf after ter the noon hour today and caused much damage The Tho force of the explosion was wag terrific Throe Three persons were injured one of whom it is believed belie fatally There is no clue to the tho person who placed d the bomb and set it off T The o injured Elbert Ward ne negro rn porter in bank condition serious Lo Logan an Wilson ilson bank bauk clerk rendered unconscious will recover J. J Donaldson bank hank clerk cut by hy falling glass not ber serious Tho The building building- i is is one of the handsomest bank buildings s in the tho United Stales States It is a modern steel edifice of classic style and cost more moro than Ionic columns support the roof the divisions between the tho columns be ho- hoing being hein in ing rally Jib of oxidized bronze bronco of a light green color Georgia marble was used lib Jib r. in the construction John F. F Pelletier superintendent of the fire insurance patrol who wa was in the banking rooms at tho the timo time the tho explosion took place and E. E P. P Swinney president of tho the bank arc are authority for Cor the statement statement state tate ment mout that the explosion was the result cf a bomb s set tiet et oil uli h by sumo some pcr person ou unknown unknown un un- known to them At first it was teas supposed to have hav un-I un resulted re re- from leaking eakin natural gas Neither Neith Neith- er was able to give gi any nuy cause caURO for the commission ion of the act Bank Was Vas Crowded The rhe bank lank was crowded with customers at the tho time the these c together with the employees employees em em- numbering nUl perhaps 20 jO 0 A panic ensued and there was a J. J wild scramble for the street door I ti In Investigation developed dl the tube fact that tho the bomb had bC been placed iu in a toilet toilet- room in the northwest corner of ot the tho basement twenty feet from front tho the main vault The toilet roust room was 18 8 by 20 0 o feet square Iuar and was separated d from front the tho adjoining room 1 by y a three inch inch pla plaster partition I i rh This 8 partition was as supported by a 1 I steel post The bomb struck this post j with such Much force that it bout Lut it t a foot I out of If position wrecked the partition und rind the tho plumbing and sent seat a cloud of dust t up tho the wide wido stairway leadill leading to tho the banking rooms roOm Half a dozen basement windows with the steel rods protecting them were weft I blown Yn out into Baltimore avenue r au and aud aco across s the tho street The Ibe building was wat shaken us as if b by an m earthquake and its force may be appreciated ap aJ from the fact that it was feltin felt in all parts tarts of tho the city Mr Ir Pelletier who was ms standing at the tho paying tellers teller's window when the tho explosion shook the building said hollowing Following ill tho the explosion there was wasa a great volume of ot smoke and dust which poured d up the stairway int into tho banking room The Tho bank was unusually we well filled with people At tho the moment I of tho the explosion the crowd turned and rushed for tho south fouth door leading into Tenth street I called out in a loud Joud voice voice for quiet shouting that there was I danger aud and rushed for tho thu stair- stair wily n I Whon S. lieu I i d reached the stairway pow pore pow pow-j dor id and nud smoke were Wel pouring no un the entrance ou- ou trance wa way I groped JH my nty way down I the stairs tair aud and a at t the thc i bottom found Ward tit tho negro n ro porter I I curried carried him upstairs where others took care of him hint and returning to th the e basement was wag soon able to make intake an all in in- at on The sine smell of powder and d the hole hoJo in tho the basement made by th tho o explosion made it certain that tho ex ex- explosion explosion had resulted from a bomb being being be he- ing lUg set sot o off II There wa was no trace of th the e bomb thrower and as yet t wo we havo hoes been et t unable ratable to find any allY tangible clue cl to th the e manner in which ho placed the mis sile siJe Logan Wilson another of the injured was in the basement ent at the time It Ii He Hewa o wa was blown clear across the tb basement basemen and probably through the partition partition a i distance of twenty feet When hen pick picked d dup tl d up ho w was lie Ile was removed re roo moved mo to the tho emergency hospital anso an anso and d so far has hafs not been Leon able to give o i an account account ac count of what happened |