Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — BOMB BLAST ON FERRY [ARTICLE]

BOMB BLAST ON FERRY

Unknown Man Explodes Bomb on California Ferryboat. A man went into the lavatory of the ferryboat Berkeley just after it left Frisco for Oakland and exploded a dynamite bomb. He was blown to pieces and six other men in the room were badly injured. Tw oof them will die. One man had his right arm blown off while another lost both legs and is otherwise mangled. The other injured are less seriously hurt. The Berkeley carried about 2,009 persons, mostly commuters on the way home from business in the city. The explosion, which shook the vessel from stem- to stern, caused something of a panic, which quickly subsided when it w as found that the vessel was In no danger.