Posted on 05/10/2018 8:08:37 AM PDT by NRx
In a plain pine box about the size of a small trunk an ingenious infernal machine containing one hundred pounds of dynamite was found on the pier of the Cunard Line less than one hour before the steamer Umbria sailed for Liverpool. According to Superintendent George E Murray of the department of combustibles the prompt discovery and immediate immersion in the water at the end of the pier by the detectives who found it was all that prevented the explosion of the dynamite and the destruction of the pier, with the many persons who had gathered to sail or bid friends and relatives goodbye. The black powder fuse leading to the detonating medium was found to be scorched, showing that it had been ignited. A second's delay in the extinction of the fuse would have meant the explosion of the whole charge. The discovery of the machine was due to the following letter, addressed "Commissioner Green Police Department City," which was received at Police Headquarters at 12:15 PM:
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TERRORISTS, 1903 style!
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ChroniclingAmerica is a great site.
:-)
Anitfa types
I’m 83 and I really wonder just how many others instantly knew just what an “INFERNAL MACHINE” meant. I haven’t heard that expression in way more yeaars than I’ll admit.
About once a month or so I go on Youtube to watch the 1952 World Series game 6 and 7 between the Yankees and Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in one game Red Barber says, “That noise you just heard was a jet going over, you hear them and they are gone!”
Kinda old news...........................
115 years...
Oh Well.
Well I didn’t post it in “Breaking.” Though I won’t deny a momentary temptation...
“...department of combustibles...”
Priceless.
I read “infernal machine” and thought of some contraption from a horror movie, like “Saw” or “Hellraiser” :)
Better late than never, I suppose..................
Bet you could find someone’s cousin in NYC is still drawing a salary for a do-nothing job in that department if you dug through their budget.
For some reason this reminds me of the capture of the bridge at Remagen.
Combat Engineers cut the lines to huge explosive charges and dropped them into the Rhine, knowing they could go off at any second.
Anarchists have been a problem for a very long time, haven’t they?
I recognized the expression, but only because I've read a lot of old books.
First thing I thought of when I saw “infernal machine” was my old Austin Healy bugeye Sprite.
Anarchists and communists, hand in hand. Then the commies win and the first ones they shoot is the anarchists.
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