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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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Maj. Bill Jones, of the stat
investigative division, . by. feley.
phone this morning. 1 A arse wide fund for fu-
MOORE REPORTED they said! ner ral expenses and hospital dills
ithey were holding the two MeN. of the dead and all the injured
Ynvestigators of the Sixteenth in the church bombing and its
[Street bombing that killed four! sttermath Sept. 15° now has
‘girls have been at a loss as to reached more than $3,000. Re-
what kind of device was used to maining funds will be_ysed for
Fetonate a ‘package of approxereetordtion of damaged buildings.
mately 10 sticks of dynamite. The
bomb was placed under the steps
héar the rear of the church and
Killed the four’ girls who were in-
‘side @ dressing room just inside
the rear basement wall.
About 26 ‘persois _in . the
2: Church congregation were ‘hurt
“hy the blast. Two young Ne-
groes were shol to death as an
‘outgrowth of the bombing.
Ten days later two explosions.
one a large shrapnel bomb, were
set off in a Negro section on the
Southside. No ane was hurt but
pelice described the bombs as
“work of a fiéitt“—~~
AN EXPLOSION with the esti-
mated force of 10 sticks of dyna-
mite occurred beneath concrete
steps on the east side of the Six-
teenth Street Church at 10:22 a.m.
Sept, 15.
A the dead and injured were
_in the basement of the church.
.A task force of FEI officers,
‘including bomb experts, joined ,
local investigaters the next day
in a painstaking search of the
area.
Several hundred pounds of de-
jbris and other material have been
jsent to the FBI laboratory at
‘Washington for detailed cxamina-
tion and testing.
' A Justice Department spokes-
man said the FBI effort to track
down the bombers is the mest in-
tensive since the John Dillinger
manhunt of the 1930s.
A REWARD FUND already had
been started for arrest and con-
‘viction of a tear gas bomber who
‘injured more than 20 shoppers
‘and employes at Loveman’s sev-
al weeks earlier, ‘= >===*
3 Fhe ‘fund has risen to about
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