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Show I.W.W. S BLOl'l UP FEDERAL BUILDHIG III CHICAGO . Court Room. Of Judge K. M. Landis Was Bombed While Big Bill Heywood Was In The Building ' Chicago, Sept. 4. A bomb exploding explod-ing In the entrance of the federal building this afternoon killed four persons . and wounded seventy-five others. ' :'.., The blast was attributed to the I. W. W. by Phillip J. Parry, acting chief of the local federal Investigation bureau, bu-reau, t The list of dead follows: - William "H. Wheeler, a mail rler. T XK ladd, saflor from the Great Lakes naval training station, whoAO home was in Sallna, Kan. i 45. R. Kolkow, a postal clerk. Miss Helen iMichike of Chicago. While the city police were rushing the wounded , to hospitals, federal ugents hurried from the ouildlng And made , two raids on l W. W. headquarters. head-quarters. Nine men were bagged . at these places by office building. Their Identity Is being kept secret The explosion wrecked the entrance of the uilding and shattered every window -in the first three floors of two buildings across the street. The court room of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, Lan-dis, where ninety-five I. W. W. lead era were given prison . sentences a few days. ago. Is on the sixth floor of the federal building. William D. ("Big ill") Heywood "uncrowned king" of the I. W. W was in the building at the time o'f the explosion. With his lawyer he was planning to seek a writ of error to stay the execution of the twenty year prison sentence given him. lie deplored the outrage and ad mitted he thought the I. W. W, wouh' be blamed, but denied emphatically that any member of the organization had committed the act. ' |
