| Show marriage of king alfonso is followed by attempt on life of royal couple bomb thrown from a window and sixteen persons killed valle many others are badly injured king and queen escaped injury the public rejoicings over the marriage of king alfonso and princess victoria had a terribly dra matic sequel at 2 30 clock thursday afternoon as a bomb thrown from an upper window exploded with deadly et feet near the coach occupied by the king and queen providentially king altonso and queen voctoria escaped when an electric wire deflected the bomb but at least sixteen persons most of them belonging to the person al and military escorts were killed many others were injured the explosion occurred just as the royal couple were about to enter the palace the route of ahe cortege had been diverted from arsenal to mayor street owing to the popular desires ahe procession had just passed through mayor street and was about to turn into the esplanade leading to the palace when an explosion shook the buildings in the vicinity stunning a large number of people and throwing the cortege into inextricable concu elon the royal coach was brought to a sudden stop by the chock officers and soldiers of the escort falling to the ground about the equerry and horses that had been killed the screams of the terrified multitude mingled with the groans of the dying it was am mediately seen that the royal coach was intact except as it had been dam aged by flying splinters king altonso PRINCESS ENA OF BATTEM ERG immediately alighted and assisted queen victoria out of the carriage then they entered another coach and were driven swiftly to the palace the place from which the bomb was thrown la a boarding house the chamber from which the missile was hurled was taken may 22 by a man from barcelona giving the name of moral when the police surrounded abe house the man attempted to flee but was captured another man es over the roofs of houses the indignation of the people over the tragedy was very great some french detectives were almost lynched merely because they had a foreign ap after the outrage a vis tors book was opened at the palace t was signed during the afternoon by the foreign princes envoys ministers and officials of all ranks As a curious coincidence it Is ji year ago thursday that a bomb thrown at king altonso in paris the king accompanied by loubet was driving away from a firmance for mance at the opera may 31 an anarchist threw a bomb at royal carriage it struck a troop the cural escort on tho shou fell to the ground ana exploded out wounding the king or the p dent who continued their drive tri dorsay |
