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VOL. XXVII. NO. 17.
BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1891
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rho Terrible Alternative Offered
Millionaire Bussel Sage.
Give Up Twelve Hundred Thousand
Dollars or Die Fearful Results or
an Explosion which Fol
lowed the Demand.
New Yon, Dec 5. A terrific ex
plosion occurred at 12:25 o'clock yes
terday afternoon in the old Union
Trust building, at C9, 71 and 73 Broad
way. It U also known as the ' "Ar
cade." , It runs through to Trinity
place and is used for egress from the
Rextor-street Elevated railroad station.
The noise and shock was frightful, and
caused a panic in the entire lower part
of the city. It was caused by a dyna
mite bomb exploded in Russell Safe's
office. 'Mr. Sage was badly hurt, but
will lire. The man who threw the
bomb, and one of Mr. Sage's clerks
were killed. Several others were killed.
and many persons were injured.
The explosion was the work of a
fiend, whether insane or not, is yet un
known, who went to Russell Sage's of
fice with the purpose of assassinating
him. The story is that at 12:15 o'clock
a small, well-dressed man, apparently
about 83 years old, carrying a leather
bag, called at Russell Sage's office, on
the second floor of 71 Broadway, and
asked for Mr. Sage. lie was told "that
Mr. Sago was busy and could not be
seen. The man persisted and contin
ued to talk in a loud tone. Mr. Sage,
who was in an inner office, came out to
see what was the matter. lie asked
the man what was wanted. The man
said:
"I demand a private interview with
you."
Mr. Sage inquired with what he could
oblige.
The man with the satchel replied:
"We want,"- he said, slowly and dis
tinctly, 'Sl,20a,000. We want it right
here and now." .
Mr. Sage started back, but instantly
recovering his presence of mind, said it
was a great deal of money, and tliat he
would have to think about it He knew
that he was dealing with a crank, and
was sparring for time. But subter
fuges were in vain with this crank. He
had no time to wait, and he said so,
"We cannot wait. I told your clerk
our business was urgent. The money
ii wanted now. In this satchel I have
dynamite, pounds of it. Unless yu
hand over the money, up she goes."
Mr. Sage made one more attempt to
temporize. lie had not got the money,
he said; lus visitor might come again..
At the word the man made an angry
gesture and raising the satchel at arms'
length, "You will not?" he said, "then
here goes."
' An explosion followed which almost
raised the roof from the building, and
Mr. Sage was blown clear through the
doorway of his private office, and
across Vhe room,
of rubbish.
lie landed in a bank
fhe persons in Mr. Saere's office at
the time of the explosion were: Mr.
Sage, his brother-in-law, Col. Slocum;
C. E. Jamesj- of 7 Nassau street; B. P
Norton, of Far Rockawav, C. W. Os-
born, of Brooklyn, and Mr. Menzies,
attaches of the office; Frank Robinson,
of Bergen Point, a messenger boy and
the bomb thrower.
When the explosion occurred there
was a great rush of air from below
The building rocked and shook and the
floors seemed to rise up. Everywhere
the walls were cracked and big lumps
of plaster, loosened from the ceiling.
fell with a crash.
The panic in the upper stories was
something awfuL People ran over and
ttampled upon each other in their mad
haste to get down the stairways. There
were two elevators in operation, both
rilled with passengers at the time. How
the escaped death no one knows, for
the confusion was so great for half an
hour after the occurrence that no de
tails of the narrow escapes that many
must have had could be obtained.
The scene in the wrecked office of
Russel Sage after the explosion was
one of ruin and chaos. The large mam
office has a smaller office on each side.
The explosion apparently occurred in
the main office, and expended its force
westward toward the larger of -the
smaller offices, and through it to the
offices of the elevated railway. , In Mr.
Sage's main office .the furniture was
overturned and broken. The walls and
ceilincs were bared of plaster in great
patches; ahe little closet built under
the wash basin was wrecked; broken
ink bottles and other office implements
were scattered about, and valuable
papers were strewn over the floor.
The safe lay in the midst of the sag
ging floor, agape with documents en
closed in stout manula envelopes.
The office to the east, a small one.
was not so seriously wrecked. The
plaster near the ceiling was knocked
off, and all the furniture was covered
with plaster. The office to the west
was nearly as badly wrecked as the
roaiu office. All the windows here, as
well as in the other two offices, were
broken, and the walls were in a large
part bared of plaster.
In the offices of the Manhattan Rail
way Co. on the same floor with Mr.
Sage's office, but farther in the rear
toward Trinity place, the shock of the
explosion was about as severe as in the
front W indow panes were blown out.
walls and ceilings were cracked and
everything thrown into confusion.
In the Manhattan directors' room.
which is in about the center of the
building, George Gould and several
other members of the board are said to
have been ' holding an executive meet
ing. They were terribly frightened by
the noise, but none of them were hurt.
Across the hallway is an unoccupied
room full of books. It looks out over
the well under the skylight. Ail its
windows were broken and a part of the
furniture was overturned while the
floor was strewn with books and other
debria Just to the east of the sky
light well, and across the hall from
Mr. Sage's offices aro the offices of
Uoassell & Ilicks, agents of the Con
solidated Coal Co. of Maryland. Tha
wladoivi hero were broken aad tfje
furcUare tossed alosV
Just to the south of these offices are
the offices of J. F. De Navarro. Tha '
office door is at least twenty-fire feet
irom Mr. Sage s omce. X evertneles3
the windows were all broken, and
everybody in the place was badly
shaken. De Navarro was cut in one
hand1y flying glass. The second floor
hallway, leading to Mr. Sage's office,
was badly shattered; the floor was cov
ered With debris. -
In this hallway, just outside the door
eading to Sage's main office, was found
the shockingly-mangled body, of a man.
The trunk and legs were in a statd
that would have made recognition im
possible, but the head, which the police
report as having been severed from the
body, showed few marks of the explo
sion. Aa the trunk and legs lay m a
net of rope brought by the firemen,
they looked like a bundle of
ragged old clothes, and were ab
solutely without human semblance.
The man wore a pointed
reddish beard. The face looked like
that of a man of education. The po-
ice from time to time brought little
clots of blood from the office and laid
them carefully . with the body. There
was blood on the wall close to the
door, through which the man had ap
parently been blowc. The remains
liave been recognized as those of the
dynamiter.
Russell Sage, after the explosion.
groped his way out of the passage.
His face and hands were dripping with
blood. He was almost unconscious.
Two men carried him down stairs and
across Broadway to a drug store. A
few minutes later Mr. Slocum, his
brother-in-law, came rushing down
stairs. His hands were bleeding and
there was a gash on one side of his
head. He was also carried to the drug
store.
Mr. Sage's clerks, with ringing ears
and bleeding faces, deafened, blind and
weak, covered with dust and blood,"
staggered out into the hall and fell,
rather than walked down the stairs.
They were cared for at the drug store,
as were others who were injured.
At lo clock a closed carriage drove
up to the drug store. Russell Sage, ac
compaied by two friends, got into it
and drove away. He refused to speak
of the accident, but one of the gentle
men said: "Mr. Sage's injuries are not
serious.'" Mr, Sage walked to the car
riage without assistance. His hands
were bandaged. He had his high hat
on, but although his face was blood
stained, it wore no bandages.
A telephone message later an
nounced that Mr. Sage is probably
much worse hurt than was at first sup
posed. It was necessary to carry him
up the stairs to his door. No one is ad
mitted.
At 1:30 o'clock Coroner Schultze, who
had" been notified" by telephone, ar
rived on the scene of the explosion.
He viewed the remains of the dead
gathered up in the net A few moments
later he gave orders for their removal.
The list of the dead and injured so far
as now known is:
BEAD.
n. W. Wilson, alias Lo.'d, the thrower
of the bomb, frightfully mangled and
torn.
B. F. Norton, of Far Rockaway. SO
years old; died in Chambers-street hos
pital. Unknown man, head and fragments
of body picked up on floor and walls of
Russell Sage's office; supposed to be a
clerk to Mr. Sago.
Unknown man, portions of whose
mutilated remains were found in the
hallway outside Mr. Sage's office.
MISSIKO.
F. J. Menzies, 25 years old, type
writer and. stenographer to Russell
Sage, said to have been blown up by
the explosion, may be one of the un-
kown dead.
INJURED.
Russell Sage, millionaire broker and
investor, bleeding from many cuts on
the head; partly conscious.
Col. J. J. Slocum, gashed and cut
about the face, but not seriously; able
to walk away.
C W. Osborn, cashier for Russell
Sage, cut, gashed and bruised from
head to foot and probably internally
injured. Will probably die.
Wm. Lalor, Wall street broker; cut
about the face and head and bruised.
At the hospital suffering from shock.
W. R. Laidlaw, at the hospital suf
fering from many injuries.
Samuel C Calhoun, telegraph opera
tor, badly bruised and dazed.
Frank Robertson, broker's clerk,
badly lacerated and cut; may die.
Unconscious man, supposed to be
Samuel Biern, of Hiawatha, Kas.; iden
tification -assumed from documents
found in pocket
The fragments of bodies were taken
to the morgue.
A TRIPLE WRECK.
Several Fenoni Killed by a Week of Three
Trains at East Thompson, Conn. An
Open Switch Said to be Responsible lor
. the Accident.
Wooxsocket, R. I., Dec. 5. Tele
phones reports give meager details of a
terrible accident on the New York &
New England railway at East Thomp
son, Conn. The steamboat train, bound
east, and two hours late, ran into a
freight train at a crossing, and five per
sons were killed outright Another was
burned to death in the smoker, which
took fire, and several others were
seriously hurt, including at least one
fatally. The passenger engineer is
among the killed. All ti-affic is blocked
A wrecking train from Norwood with 103
men has gone to the scene of the acci
dent, as has also a special train with
physicians from Boston. The Long
Island express was passing on the
other track at the time and all three
trains were piled up. The engineer of
the Boston train and his fireman were
reported killed. The wreck almost im
mediately took fire and doctors have
been summoned from near-by points.
The accident is said to have been due
to an open switch.
The long unprecedented drought in Texas h
been brought to close by a perfect delnga of
rain. Tha last rata that visited Dslsoa aad
vicinity wm September Z sines which time
flxsst riSsri&f from want 0? TTt?r by stwfe ba
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
The Crops.
Nashville, Dec. 2. Dr. Godwin, Com
missioner of Agriculture, has issued his
Crop report for November. Nearly all
of the corn Crop has been housedi th8
yield isffrery large, being now estimated
at 98.6 per cent of a full crop. Cotton
picking has progressed well, and fully
four-fifths of the crop has been gathered.
The yield is larger than expected, tha
estimate being now 72.8, an advance of
8.5 in the last thirtrday. The acreage
is not bo large a9 last year. Th yield
of this crop does not even come up to
the expectation of a month ago. There
is complaint that the crop did not ma
ture well. The yield is placed at 51.3,
or a little over a half crop. This does
not mean, however, that the total yield
will be half as much as last year, since
the acreage if feiderably less than lo
1890.
Only about one-tourth the counties
show a greater acreage in wheat than
last year, and by far the greater number
show a decrease. Of the counties which
show an Increased acreage the largest
number, proportionately, are in West
Tennessee. In reply to the question,
"Is the stand of wheat good, bad or
medium?" 307 replies were received, as
follows: 163, medium; 89, bad; 50, good.
The crop was sown very late.
3!ce Points of Law.
NAenviLLE, Dec 2. An interesting
case was decided by a magistrate here
today. The Tennessee Brokerage Asso
ciation having become indebted, in a
business transaction, to W. II. Thompson
Ar. fV,.. of Waco. Texas, on June 13, 1891,
deposited the amount of 8325 with Sax's
Bank of this city, and the bank on tho
same day wired Thompson & Co. of the
deposit. Thompson & Co. drew upon
the bank for the amount deposited.
When the draft arrived hero the bank
had failed, and they refused to honor it
Thompson & Co. then applied to the
Tennessee Brokerage Association for
payment of the amount, and were re
fused. Suit for the amount was brought
against the association by Thompson &
Co. Justice Everett, in delivering his
opinion in favor of the brokerage asso
ciation, held that defendant would un
doubtedly bavo been liable to Thomp
son & Co. for the amount duo them and
lost by the failure of the bank had not
said association put in the plea that it
was a gambling contract, which, under
the laws of Tennessee, it has tho right
to do.
The Convicts.
xriciviTir. Dec. 1. There was a
moeting today in the Governor's office
regarding the eonvict trouble. Besides
the Governor and the three Prison In
spectors, tho Treasurer, Secretary of
State, Comptroller, Superintendent ol
Prisons and WTarden were present The
status of affairs was discussed and the
Superintendent authorized to employ
100 men at Briceville and 100 men at
Coal Creek for guard duty, should that
many be required. Nothing was- done
in regard to Oliver Springs, but the
same number will probably be allowed
there. It is pretty certain that it is the
Governor's intention to create a militia
guard of at least 75 men at each stock
ade. As soon as the stockades are
finished the recaptured convicts will be
mnrf.hpd into them against wnatecer
opposition may be offered. Their cap
ture has already cost the otaw j.ojj.
Miscellaneous.
Tt ts rumored that C. P. Huntington,
tho railroad king, has purchased the
Hartsville Branch and all the franchises
of the original projectors of the road,
and will extend it to Cartbago at once;
bridge tho Cumberland at that point,
join the Crawfords in pushing the Nash
ville & Knoxville o: ease irom
Cookeville to Knoxville, and lurnlsn
Nashville with a competing line by run
ning into that city on an extension of
the Chesapeake & Ohio iromuauaun.
A white woman, claiming to bo a doc
tor, has been swindling the colored pop
ulation of Jackson out of several dollars
tho past week. She would take their
money and tell them the diseases would
leave them when she put tho money
into running water. She left town be
fore her operations became known to
the police. She is believed to be in
Memphis.
The following Tennessee postmasters
were appointed last week: J. M. Mar
tin, Coulterville, Hamilton County; Mrs.
J. Dillard, Leadvale, Jefferson County;
pi V. Brooks, Rough Point, Jackson
County; G. Gernigon, Carlista, Robert
son County; W. F. Wall, Pleasant Point,
Lawrence County.
James Caset, while finishing up some
work oh the now iron bridge being built
by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
over the Cumberland river at Clarks
ville last week, fell a long distance to
v rnclrv bank below and received fatal
iniuries. Casey is the third man who
fall g n from this bridge in the past
two or three months, receiving fatal in
juries.
Chancellor Allison, of Nashville,
last week set a3ide the ante-nuptial
contract made by K's. Margaret Al.
Knnrlock with her husband, the late S.
Smirlock. The estate is valued at
$100,000, and Mrs. Spurlock will receive
nnfi-third and all the personal property
Under the terms of the ante-nuptial
contract she was given only a life in
terest in the home place.
T.evebt Kimball, a 'prominent law
yer, died at Chattanooga last week after
a lingering illness of some five months.
Mr. Kimball went to Chattanooga about
four vears ago from Mississippi. He
was buried in the Confederate cemetery
by N. B. Forrest Camp, Confederate
Veterans.
The Tjlaninfr mills and entire manu
facturing establishment of U.R. llearncr
& Co., of Jackson were burned last week.
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cbinery and lumber amounts to 11,030;
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