OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2311, 28 January 1892, Page 3

OUTRAGE IN NEW YORK.

An extraordinary dynamite outrage was committed in New York recently in a six-storey, building filled with offices. About noon two men went into the Broadway office of Mr Russel Sage and'demanded a million dollars. He asked for time to consider the demand, but they declined to give him a moment. Then one of them took a bomb out of a black valise and threw it against the wall. In the explosion which followed the noise was deafening. The building seemed to shake as if rocked by an earthquake. Immediately there was a cloud of dust, which momentarily shut off the view. As soon as it cleared the wreck could be seen. All the windows on the second floor seemed to be blown out. Standing on the window ledges and in the windows ware several men holding their heads and frantically waving their hands for assistance. Their faces were covered with blood, and they presented a most pitiable spectacle. Inside the office after the explosion there was a sickening sight. lu the midst of wrecked furniture, desks and partitions, which were in splinters, were the remains of the bodies of at least three persons, while bits of flesh were scattered about everywhere. One man had had his head blown off. Down among the debris was a leg, apparently, belonging to a woman, but the rest of the body was not to be seen. A badly crushed head could be seen among the ruins, but it could not be told whether it belonged to a man a woman. One woman, believed to be a typewriter, was killed, and an unknown man, who was in the office at the time. No other occupants of the building, save those of Mr Kussel Sage's office, were injured, but the robbers brought destruction upon themselves. A later telegram says — '•' It seems certain that the man who threw the bp,mb was named Wilson. The head, severed from the trunk, lies at the Police Statjon. The dead number three and the injured six, two of whom are beyond hope of recovery. Mr Sage has identified the severed head as that of the murderer. The latter was an escaped lunatic, known to be possessed bj a suicidal mania.