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Show II EXPLODED IN HI0STOFTHROHG SIX KILLED AND FORTY-FIVE INJURED IN-JURED BY INFERNAL MACHINE AT 8AN FRANCISCO. Explosion Occurred During Preparedness Prepared-ness Plrade, Blowing Gap Through Crowd, Maiming Men, Women and Children. Ban Francisco. Six persons were killed and forty-four were injured by the explosion of a timed bomb at the oorner of Stewart and Market streets, Saturday afternoon, during the preparedness pre-paredness parade. The deed Is generally attributed to a mind unbalanced by arguments for and against preparedness which have occupied attention here lately. Frank Josephson, a lodger in a sail-on' sail-on' boarding house, has been arrested arrest-ed on suspicion. When arrested, he cried: "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." The bomb, concealed, in a suitcase packed with cartridges, bullets, gas pipe, (lass and scrap Iron, blew a gap through the crowd, blasting men, women, children and babies. The one-story building against which the suitcase stood was wrecked. The holiday throng, cheering a contingent con-tingent of veterans of the First California Cali-fornia Infantry of the Spanish-American war, became a shambles. The blare of fifty bands and the roar of drums drowned the cries of the injured. in-jured. "Two women standing beside me were blown to bits," said one woman, Mrs. Kinsley Van Doom, of Oakland, who, with her two children, was injured. in-jured. The police say it is possible that some bodies were blown out of existence. Every possible precaution, police officials of-ficials said, was taken, but the innocent inno-cent looking suitcase, standing where a oountry visitor, of whom there were thousands, might have set it down, attracted at-tracted no attention. The force of the bomb was astonishing. aston-ishing. Handsfuls of empty revolver and rifle shells, blown through the drowd by the explosion, were picked up in the gutter by souvenir hunters. A piece of lead pipe was blown two blocks into the Northwestern Pacific waiting room in the Ferry building. A woman's gold watch, presumably belonging be-longing to one of the victims, was blown through the air and landed in a fruit stand a block and a half away. Through the violence, the parade wended, without a break. The veterans veter-ans of the Grand Army of the Republic, Repub-lic, waiting in Steuart street to fall into line, escaped death by a hair, and proceeded with the march. An ambulance ambu-lance summoned to care for a fainting faint-ing spectator, stood across the street when the explosion occurred. The patient pa-tient had his leg fractured and a man aiding the attendants fell with a fractured frac-tured skull, but the ambulance steward stew-ard was uninjured. He placed both men and some other victims in his ambulance and rushed them to a hospital. hos-pital. All the newspaper offices in San Franoisco on Friday received a communication com-munication written in Roman scrip with an indelible pencil, many of the words being heavily underscored, warning them that "things are going to happen," but the warning was regarded re-garded as a hoax. |
