Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-10-19 | Page 1 | Bomb in a City Sewer

jBOMB IN A ! Italian Tenement District of New York Given a Shaking Up New York, Oct. 19 Somebody dropped drop-ped a powerful dynamite bomb Into a sewer excavation on Prince street. In the heart of New YorkV East Side Italian district, early today and the explosion which followed rocked the earth for a radius of several hundred yards as if the section was In 'lie grip of an earthquake. Two nearby tenement tene-ment houses were badly damaged, although al-though all the occupants escaped Injury. In-jury. Two hundred i windows were broken and damage estimated at 51-ftfto 51-ftfto was done to walls and store fronts. 1 The shock of the explosion was so severe that all the tenement dwellers ! in the two buildings, were thrown from their beds. Thov fled in panic to the streets, wherj the police reserves re-serves cared for them until order could be restored. ' No clue to the identity of the bomb thrower was found by :the police None of the tenement dwellers would admit having received threatening letters. I