| Show PUPILS STRICKEN Twelve Hundred Fled to Streets As Result of Report RepOt of Threat Threatened Threatened ened Black Hand Outrage WAS TO BLOW UP BUILDING Children I Italian Many Narrow X It cupo In II Hushing Down Chicago April 25 Twelve hundred I WI of tho Iho Tenner foller Public Pct Jl lied lell to 10 the streets i a when a I report spread through he the hu that throe members mom bels of tho 1 Hand society had hod placed a I nl bomb In tho basement which us timed to go oft of at lt 2 Although 12 teachers In the 23 25 rooms lalo mol effort to form fro drill II und and to to the frantic children ns OM they thc rushed down thre I lights of stairs trampling over one In their Ien frenzy to 10 get out of the tl school house Several feell of oC tho smaller children narrowly larroll escaped serious iri In Jur lury In tho rush for the doors leading to the tho stairs Parents who hurried to the school to their the children from the tho expect expected ed Id disaster added to the tho confusion It I was only through th of oC tho thA and the I bravery braer of oC Engineer rank Smith and Janitor Leonard lonald Moore loore who stood at lt the main entrances of the thc building picking up those who were Iere knocked down In the tho rush for exits that no ono one was injured fatally 11 n the punIc panic For two hours after lter the building had cleared of the boys bos and girls parents crowded the thc streets around the structure waiting for th expected explosion threatening vengeance on the Hand society Not until a I squad of polo arrived in II espouse o to n call cal from Principal Fred Pred Frederick erick J Lane LIle was the tho crowd dispersed The fhe majority of the tho pupils ot or th Jenner school are II of Italian parentage A rumor had hll spread that three of th schools In that neighborhood to tobe be ue dynamited by hy the tho Black Hand Hund owing to the tho determined effort of the better hetter class cuss of Italians to do d IWUY iway with wih the organization It I Is as M totted that Italian residents hud re received more mOI than half a dozen letters leter threatening to blow up IJ the tho Jenner school tho Adams school and tho Two Twe Sisters school Italian educational In Institutions The letters It I Is said trans translated aro II as I follows The Tho Jenner school and two other schools will be ho blown to pieces at 2 today toca At A t tho bottom of these notes was the thI picture ot o a I black und and a a dagger These notes on to t the Ell Dates settlement house and anxious parents were Informed by h the seto mont workers that tho Iho letters probably pro ably were written by h hoodlums merely to frighten neighborhood tho residents of tho Italian |
