Illinois: left side (2nd and 3rd down from top)
Posted on 05/03/2002 1:47:40 PM PDT by Aliska
All postal workers are being called in to their stations in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. If people see a mailman still delivering mail they are supposed to tell them to return to their post office. More to follow.
Bomb planted in mailbox injures postal worker
SAGEVILLE, Iowa - A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was seriously injured Friday afternoon when a bomb planted inside a Sageville mailbox exploded. Another bomb exploded in rural Elizabeth, Ill., and authorities discovered an undetonated bomb in a Farley mailbox.
Officials have not released the identity of the postal worker.
Around 12:30 p.m. the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Department was notified of the bomb explosion on Rupp Hollow Road - the mailbox of David Holl, 11803 Ledgewood Drive, according to neighbor Myo Boyer, of 11983 Boyer Road.
Boyer said she nearly opened her neighbor’s mailbox, but paused after she saw something suspicious inside.
“I saw a string, one of those 9-volt batteries, and a coil inside there. So I shut it up real quick,” Boyer said. “I didn’t know what a bomb looks like.”
Eyewitnesses at the scene said the mail carrier later opened the mailbox from the passenger side of a sport utility vehicle, and the bomb detonated. The explosion severely injured the mail carrier’s arm, eyewitnesses said. The explosion drilled a shotgun-sized hole in the door of the vehicle.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms were called to the site Friday afternoon, a Dubuque County Deputy confirmed. Law enforcement officials cordoned off the area, awaiting federal investigators.
Dubuque County Law enforcement officials confirmed another mail bomb in rural Farley. An official with the department said that bomb did not detonate.
Donna Millwright, a U.S. Postal carrier in Dubuque County for 22 years, stopped her vehicle on the side of North U.S. 52, when she heard the news of the explosion, waiting for official orders on how to proceed.
“I don’t want to get blown up,” Millright said.
“Nothing like this has ever happened,” Millwright said. “I’ve seen plenty of things in mailboxes, but never a bomb.”
“Let’s hope there aren’t anymore,” Millwright said.
Jo Daviess County, Ill., officials report a pipe bomb exploded in a mailbox in rural Elizabeth Friday afternoon. Officials were investigating reports of pipe bomb explosions in Carroll and Whiteside counties as well.
“We would ask that everyone use extra caution when checking your mailboxes and report any foreign objects in or around mailboxes,” said Jo Daviess County Sheriff Steve Allendorf.
What is out there enviro-wackos??
I wish I was a cheesehead too.
But it beats canuckistan!
And she did not report it immediately? Good grief...if you see something suspicious, no matter how minor, report it ASAP. This woman could have kept the postal worker from getting injured!
Knowing this part of Iowa and Illinois, probably it's some leftover Vietnam-era Trotskyite.
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