Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — MANY I. W. W.S UNDER ARREST [ARTICLE]

MANY I. W. W.S UNDER ARREST

OUTRAGE CONSIDERED REPRISAL FOR CONVICTION OF HAYWOOD IN FEDERAL COURT.. Chicago, Sept. 4.—Four persons were killed and more than seventyfive others injured by the explosion of a bomb in a crowded entrance to the Federal Building at 3:10 o’clock this afternoon. The dead included two postal clerks, a sailor and a Chicago woman. Pete Dailey, of St. Paul, Minn., who was placed on trial with the other L W. W. members, but was later released by Judge Landis because of his physical and mental condition, was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the explosion. The explosion not only wrecked the entrarfee of the. building, but shattered every window on the first three floors of two buildings across the street, and was attributed to the I. W. W. by Philip J. Barry, im charge of the locall offices of the Department of Justice. Raids on two headquarters of the I. W. W. within fifteen minutes after the explosion resulted in the arrest of nine men. Several more were taken into custody within the Federal Building and a woman whose name was suppressed was arrested in a near by building. Tonight more than 1,500 government agents and the entire city police force was seeking the perpetrator of the outrage. The bomb, which is believed to have consisted of at least three wirewrapped steel cylinders charged with high explosive, carried into the Adams street entrance of the building during one of the most busy periods of the day. Concealed in a suit case and connected with a time fuse, the device was deposited behind a radiator unnoticed by the passing throng. ’ Nearly a hundred persons were in the corridor at the time at the stamp windows, writing desks and letter registry division. The explosion came just as a bell in the dome of the building struck 3:10 o’clock. The force of the blast tore the radiator from its fastenings and hurled it twenty feet, where it struck and killed a horse, smashed desks, tore up great slabs of marble from the walls and ground the woodwork into splinters. Flying debris cut into shreds several war posters and canvas banners stretched across the front of the entrance apd filled the street with pilaster, stone and broken glass. Directly across the street every pane of glass in the first three floors of the Commonwealth-Edison and Marquette Buildings were blown in upon occupants of offices, stores and restaurants.

Many of the injured were cut by these flying fragments. Every person in the corridor where the explosion took place was hurled to the floor and their cries filled the building and halted the first panic-stricken rush of the uninjured to escape from other entrances.