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Aftermath of the bomb thrown during an anarchist meeting in Union Square, 1908.

The bomb, meant to be aimed at police, detonated early. It thrown by Selig Silverstein, a 21-year-old member of the ‘Anarchist Federation Union’, who claimed to have two children and a wife in Russia.

Questioned while waiting to enter emergency surgery, he claimed at first that he had made the bomb himself and planned to throw it in revenge for a beating received from the police a few days before, though later he claimed the order came from higher up.

A companion of Silverstein’s, Ignatz Hildebrandt, was killed almost instantaneously, with parts of his body found upwards of 50 feet away.

Silverstein himself was severely injured by the bombing, with both his eyes gouged out, his chest ripped open, his legs broken and the hand that held the bomb ripped off with the explosion. He died a month later, though his death was attributed to consumption. The only other injuries were on the part of the police, and these were slight.