Show ATTEMPTED assassination of win II 11 vanderbilt Vauder bilt and aud cyrus W field of new now york fly y W V U telegraph Telez raph to thel the lerald l april 29 A k dastardly dastardly y attempt was made loday today lo day by miscreants on the lives of win TI 11 vanderbilt and cyrus IV field by sending thern explosives through tile I mails nails fortunately tho the dari dangerous el ous character of the packages was discovered en route to tile post postoffice pos tonice office and BO so tile probable loss of lifo life was prevented the circumstances of tile case as related by postmaster pearson are as follows two missives camo came into the post postoffice office about in alio lie afternoon ono ii was ps posted in the office and the other was brought brou glit in by a collector a few ini minutes afterwards tho the last one was addressed tf t wm 11 II vanderbilt fifth avenue the first ono one was addressed cyrus IV field lexington avenue and arid street the packages were placed in the mail bag along with oilier other mail for tho tile uptown district put in the mail wagon and arid taken to the ad avenue elevated railroad station at tho the head of and then deposited on tho the front platform of ono one of the cars the train barted up town and before reaching the station at ninth street and third an explosion was heard from the mail ba bag and fire and was observed to issue from it when the train stopped at tho the station the burning has baa was hastily transferred to t alio t I 10 platform as the railroad people were afraid to transport it any furth further er on tho train it was taken down stairs placed on a wagon waon and taken to the posto 18 station at street and ad avenue superintendent mollier Mo slier who is in clargo there made a thorough investigation of the package that exploded tho the explosion was probably caused by the jolt of tho the cars I when lien roun dinga curve out of bower bowery I into ad avenue and but for which occurrence the packages I katos might have bave rea reached clied their adzi dzi destination s and exploded in the hands of parties to whom they were addressed the contents of the mail bag were nvere pretty well scorched clied by the explosion tile postoffice posto post ulce office officials arc ma making kinga a vigorous effort to t trace alie le packages to tho the parties who sent them and ana no ile stone will bo be left unturned postmaster pearson says to hunt down tile ruffians r who lio made the nihilistic attempts |