Work Of A Crank

A DEADLY BOMIi. Nkw York, Dec. 5.- Ru-sell Sace, the mülionaire broker, escaped death as by a m ráele Friday. The entire Kmpire building, in whieh was his office, was shaken to its very foundation by the explosión oí a dynainite boinb hurled by a crank, who made a deinand upon Mr. Sage for the immediate payment oi $1, 1250,000, the ultimatum being, in case oí refusal, the death oí the millionaire, the crank hiraself and those emploved in the office. Never in the history of the metropolis is it probable that an eent has ocenrred that for the time caused more excitement in Wall street and lower Broadway. Fnlly 60,000 people were drawn to the scène of the explosión, and for an hour the pólice were powerless to bring order out of the chaos. Those who were close at hand saw a man blown through one of the windows of Sage's office into Rector street A few minutes later Mr. Sage himself, with blood sireaining f rom his face and hands, was helped out into the street and taken to O'Connell's drug store, just below Wall street, on Broadway. There, also, was carried the man blown from the window. Within ten minutes after the explosión Dr. A. P. Munn, the physician of Jay Gould, was at the side of Mr. Sage and personlly attended to bis injuries, which proved to be not oí a serious nature. The hair and eyebrows of the millionaire were burned and his face and his hands hurt by small particles of glass and piaster, the result of the explosión. But one person was killed outright, supposed to be H. D. Wilson, the man that made the demand for money from Mr. Sage aud the one that threw the bomb. Benjamin F. Morton, who was thrown through the window, a clerk in the office of Mr. Sage, was removed to Chambers street hospital, where he died at 1:30 a. m. whüe under operation for fracture of the skull. Thedeeeased was a resident of Far Kockaway, L. I. Mr. Slocum, the chief clerk of Mr. Sage, is badly cut about the head. The safe was broken open and the eecurities scattered over the building and Btreet. The others injured are: 8. U. CalhouE. of 165 Dean street, Brooklyu. who was in Mr. Sage's office or near lt when the explosión occurred; badly burned on the Blde of the face, but otherwise uniujured. W. K. Laldlaw, Sage's clerk. leg lacerated and wounds about tbe face and body. Frank Robertson, a broker's clerk, 88 yettrs old, living at Bergen Point, N. J., bruiaed and cut about tbe abdomen; dangcrous. F. G. Morrison, who has an offloe in the building, bndly cut and bruiscd. C. W. Osborn, 52 years old, 196 Derkley place, Brooklyn, severe Injuries about body and faoe. Utica, N Y.,Dec. 7.- Hiram Wilson, who is mentioned as the crank who dropped the dynamite bomb in Russell Bages office in New York, is confined at the state hospital in this city.