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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 11
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MOORE REPORTED they said.nerat expenses and hospital bills
ithey were holding the two men.of the dead and all the injured
Investigators of the Sixteenth/in the church bombing and its
IStreet bombing that killed four.aftermath Sept. 15 | now has
girts have been at a loss as to reached more than $3,000 Re
Whal kind of device was used to, maining funds will bi
Betonate a ‘package of approxregtoration of damaged ities.
tnately 10 sticks of dynamite. The
b_ was placed under the steps
neat the rear of the church and
killed the four girls who were in-
‘side a dressing room just inside
the rear basement wall .
About 20 persons in _ the
church congregation were ‘hurt
the blast. Two young Ne-
Broes were shot to death as an
souigrowth of the bombing.
Ten days later two explosions,
one a large shrapnel bomb, were
set off in a Negro section on the
Southside. No one was hurt but
police described the bombs as
“work of a fie
AN EXPLOSION with the esti
mated force of 10 sticks of dyna-
mite occurred beneath con
steps on the east side of the Six
teenth Street Church at 10:22 a.m,
Sept. 15
All the dead and injured were
in the basement of the chntch.
A task force of FBI 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 mater have been
sent 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 most in-
tensive since the John Dillinger
manhunt of the 1930s,
A REWARD FUND already had
been started for arrest aud con-
viction of a tear gas bomber who
injured more than 20 shoppers
‘and employes at Loveman's sev-
pane
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