People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — DYNAMITE IN MADRID. [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE IN MADRID.

Explosion of a Large Bomb Near the Residence of the Ex-Premier—One Man Torn to Piece*. Madrid, June 21.— A large dynamite bomb was exploded at midnight a few feet from the house of Canovas del Castillo, ex-premier. The explosion was heard throughout the city. Tbe immediate district was shaken as if by an earthquake. Three policemen ran to the spot. They found the dismembered body of a man in the street and' eaught a man crawling down the street on his bands and knees. When arrested the man refused to say what he knew of the explosion, but complained that he was severely wounded. One of his legs was broken, his scalp was torn and his face was covered with blood. He was taken to a police station and was there identified by a servant empolyed in a house opposite the ex-premier’s as one of three men whom she had seen standing on the other side of the street just before the explosion. After the explosion she said she heard a man run away. Many houses in the neighborhood where the explosiop occurred were badly damaged. Windows were shattered and walls were sprung, but none of the occupants were injured. While the police were looking ovef the ground just after the explosion Canovas opened tbe door and began questioning them. He ordered out all his servants to help search for the limbs of the m&n blown to pieces by the bomb. One leg. the head and a hand were found 70 feet from the place where the bomb was set.