The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-09-21 00:00:00

DYNAMITE ON THE RAILS.

The London and North Western Railway Company's
down Scotch express from Ruston at • quarter-past five
on Monday morning had a narrow escape from being
blown up by a quantity of dynamite, that had been
maliciously placed on the line, within • few hundred yards
of Bushey station. The deputy station-masters report
explains that platelayer 11. A. Heath, of twenty gang,
who was going to fetch the up distance signal lamps on
Monday morning at about ten minutes past seven a.m.,
found a parcel of some explosive material, of • reddish
colour, in a hole which had been dug by the side of •
sleeper at the jOillT. The two fish plates had been taken
otr, and an indiarubber tube, filled with gunpowder and
long gun-caps fixed at the end, was attached to it, A jemmy
about 18 inches long was also found Weide it. Heath
goys that I.y the appearance of the tube when 11., found
th it he thinks e ' 'jar "of the train must have jolted the
end with the gun caps in ntf the metals, thus avoid ng •
terrible explosion. The explosive sill stance was found on
the down line, The au.tionties placed extra officials along
the line on either side of Bushey station at close distance.
to each other. On Monday evening Allred Boddy, one of
the company's employes, went at the accustomed time—
about seven o'clock—to attend to the lights near the spot
where the explosive material was found, and there picked
up a portion of • lamp such as is used only by engine
drivem

On Tuesday the company's inspectors engaged in
the inquiry placed an infinitesimal piece of
the explosive substance on the rails, and watched the
result when a train passed. The detonation even with
this harmless portion determined all doubt as to the
mischievous power of a full charge. The position in
which the explosive was found is a specially mysterious
feature of an altogether mysterious occurrence. For
wrecking a train, if that were the purpose the
dynamite was intended to serve, the placing of the
charges on the rails would have been the 'implant and
the most horribly effective plan, unless the
perpetrators feared the guard Irons might knock off
the dynamite and clear the metals. It appears, however,
that the fish plates had been taken off the rail, and the
line thereby weakened, that the dynamite had
been placed two or three inches outside the rail in a
shallow hole in the ground roughly scooped out
apparently by hand, and that three pieces of ordinary
indiarubber tubing, containing gunpowder and
percussion caps, had connec,ml the parcel of dynamite
with th • rails. These preparations appear to imply a
somewhat impeifect acquaintance on the part of the
conspirators with the properties of dynamite.
The explosive was wrapped in a parcel containing
27 cartridge-like charges, with newspaper coverings.
The charges were all rolled together in a parchment
paper, and there was also an outer wrapping of rougk
brown paper, partially opened, but still held together
by a piece of string. In addition to the 27 whole
charges there were three or four broken ones. At the
spot where the discovery was made the line takes a
curve, and runs along a high embankment. Persons
tampering with the rails would, therefore, be screened
from view. The inquiries led to the suspicion that
there had been a design to blow up one of the Sunday
night express trains. James Hart, a man in the
employment of Rowse Brothers, coal agents, on hear-
ing of the discovery on the line, volunteered the
statement that there was a slight explosion on the line
on Sunday night. It is conjectured that a small
portion of dynamite left on the rail may have been
exploded by one of the trains going down, and that
the vibration caused by the train on the loosened rail
had shaken off the tubing. One of the caps attached
to the tube appears to have been flattened without
firing the powder. There was nothing carried I.y any
of these trains, so far as is known, to justify the wild
conjecture that it could have entered the minds of any
set of villains to wreck one of them for the sake of
plunder.
Late Tuesday night the suspici n that some dis-
charged servant or servants of the company were
connected with the outrage was .mining ground, and a
belief was expressed that arrests will shortly be made.
On Wednesday portions of the supposed dynamite
were given to Dr. A‘el.ng and an artillery officer for
analysis. The driver of the 5.15 on Mon !ay at .tee
that he noticed a stranger standing near the rails at a
short distance from Bushey. Later, a stran,„er was
seen coming from the direction of the spot, going to
London.

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