Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — VICTIMS OF A BOMB. [ARTICLE]

VICTIMS OF A BOMB.

Three Death* Result from an Explosion at a Church in a Town in Cuba. Havana, April 19. —The latest advices from the town of Alfonso XIIL as to the explosion of a dynamite bomb at’the Church of San Francisco de Paula Saturday night say that the explosion took place at the main entrance. The killed were Jose Larino, a sacristan, and Juan Grovas. Ramon Fondora, a child, was so seriously injured that he died soon after. Pedro Dago, a policeman, and Luis Perez, a child, were also wounded. The usually peaceful neighborhood was terribly frightened by the noise of the explosion, and the people crowded abont the scene, stupefied at first at the sight of the mangled bodies and the destruction wrought. The whole community is denouncing with the greatest indignation the perpetrators of this horrible crime.