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Show JOY TURNED TOMORROW Marriage of Kin? Alfonso is Followed by Attempt on Life of Royal Couple Bomb Thrown From a Window and 8lxteen Persons Killed, While Many Others Are Badly Injured King and Queen Escaped Es-caped Injury, Malrld. Tho public rejoicings ovor tho mnrrlago of King AlfonBo nnd Princess Victoria hnd a terribly dramatic dra-matic sequel nt 2)30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, as a bomb thrown from an upper window oxplodcd with deadly effect ef-fect nenr tho coach occupied by tho king and queen. Providentially, King Alfonso nnd Queen Vnctorla escaped whon nn electric wlro deflected tho bomb, but nt least sixteen persons, most of them belonging to tho porson-nt porson-nt nnd military escorts, woro killed. Many others woro injured. Tho oxploslon occurred Just as tho royal couplo woro about to enter tho pnlaco. Tho route of iho cortcgo had been diverted from Arsenal to Mnyor street, owing to tho populnr desires. Tho procosslon had Just passed through Mnyor Btrcot and wns about to turn Into tho Esplnnndo leading to tho pnlaco when nn explosion shook KING ALFONSO XIII. tho buildings In tho vicinity, stunning a lnrgo number of peoplo and throwing tho coitego Into Inoxtrlcnblo confusion. confu-sion. Tho royal coach was brought to n suddon stop by tho shock, officers nnd soldiers or tho escort falling to tho ground nbout tho equerry nnd horses thnt hnd been killed. Tho screams of tho torrlfled multltudo mingled with tho groans of tho dying. It was immediately im-mediately seen that tho royal coach was Intact, except ns It hnd boon dnm-aged dnm-aged by flying splinters. King Alfonso rniNCEas ena or uatteniikuq. Immediately allghtod and assisted Queen Victoria out of tho carriage. Then they entered nnothor coach nnd woro drlvon swiftly to tho palaco. Tho plnco from which tho bomb was thrown Is a boarding houso. Tho chamber from which tho nilssllo was hurled wns taken May 22 by a man from Darcolona, giving tho namo of Moral. Whon tho police surrounded tho houso tho man attempted to flee, but was captured. Another man escaped es-caped over tho roofs of louses, Tho Indignation of tho peoplo over tho tragedy was very great. Some French dotectlvos woro almost lynched merely becauso thoy bad a foreign np poaranco. After tho outrngo a visitors' vis-itors' book was opened at tho palaco. It was signed during tho afternoon by tho foreign princes, envoys, diplomats, ministers and officials of all ranks. As a curious coincidence it is Just a year ago Thursday thnt a bomb was thrown nt King Alfonso In Paris. As tho king accompanied by President Loubet was driving nway from a pcr formanco at tho opera, May 31, 1905, an anarchist threw n bomb at tho royal carriage. It struck a trooper of tho cural8scr escort on tho shoulder, fell to tho ground nnu exploded without with-out wounding tho king or tho president, presi-dent, who continued their drlvo to tho Palais D'Orsay. |