Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1893 — AWFUL ANARCHISTS. [ARTICLE]

AWFUL ANARCHISTS.

Barcelona Bomb-Throwers at a Theater. Sixt*** People Killed Many Mangled and Cruihed In the Panic. The Anarchists of Spain are active. At Barcelona, Tuesday night, at the opera house, while tho play was in progress, two dynamite bombs were suddenly hurled from the topmost gallery into the midst of the stal's on tho floor of the house. One o/ the dynamite bombs exploded with a terrible report, which shook the theater to Its foundations, and which scattered death, wounds and destruction upon all sides. The second bomb, happily, did not explode, having fallen in the lap of a woman, from whence it rolled harmlessly to tho floor. The explosion of the bomb C3UJ.ed a scene of terror and confusion rarely witnessed in a theater. The whole audience rose to it* feet with horror and dismay, hardly knowing what had happened, the building ringing with shrieks of fear, cries of pain and exclamations pf vengeance. A panic resulted. There was a rush for the doors, and the weaker ones were crushed and mangled in a shocking manner. The stalls presented a terrible sight. The part where the bomb exploded was a mass of splintered wreckage, amid which lay a number of dead bodies, some of which were so terribly mangled as to be beyor.* recognition. When the wreckage was In some degree cleared away it was found that there were fifteen dead bodies, of which six were those of men and nine the corpses of women. It is believed that at least fifty of the injured will not recover. Special powers were given the police to pursue the miscreants who perpetrated tho terrible crime. The authorities of Barcelona have been censured by the government for their leniency toward Anarchist*, and for permitting the frequent outrages which have occurred in that city.