The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-27

sion. The district is now surrounded by
Gordon OF policemen, an d one OF the household
regiments of Guards have been called out aud
posted at convenient places all around to sup
port the police. London is In state OF great
excitement, and the most intense indignation
is felt at the utter disregard of innocent lives
manifested by the perpetrators of the outrage.
Three men have been arrested on suspicion.
[sEcoND DESPATCH
LONDON, Friday Night, Dec. 1873 O'clock
About four p. NJ. two men and a woman
brought barrel on a truck and psc I'd II against
the " all of the Clerkenwell House of Detention.
in Corporation row. They III a fuse, and a tre-
mendous explosion took place. The wall was
driven In, leaving gap sixty feet at the top.
men and the woman ran away, but were arrest
Ell. The house opposite was destroyed, and
nearly thirty houses adjoining are more or less
injured. while in the adjoining street an i'm
mepse amount of glass is broken. Forty per-
sons Injured, including women and children,
are In hospital; three are dying Firemen are
working in the ruins searching for bodies.
A large body OF police are in the prison yard,
and detachment OF guards In the prison. The
prison wall enclosed the yard where the pri-
There is little doubt that the object was to
liberate Burke and Casey, but to-day these
men were taken for walk in another enclosed
space consequently the attempt failed.
The report was heard at n great distance, and
the event has caused considerable excitement
and indignation at the reckless isregard of life
and property. At O'Clock p. M. thousands of
persons were attempting to get near the scene
of OF the Outrage. Al the approaches are kept by
The force of the explosion was so great that
masses oil bricks were hurled seventy or eighty
feet into the prison yard.
Full Particulars.
From the London Globe. mn edition. Dec. lS.
This afternoon about four o'clock the neigh.
borhood at the House of Detention, Clerken-
well, was thrown into a state of great alarm in
consequence of u terrific explosion taking place,
and which, for within radius of half mile,
termed tne Al Inc wlnaows were
sion prevailed at the time This diabolical out
rage is supposed TO have been perpetrated to
effect the release of the Fenian leader, Colonel
Burke, wno is confined In Clerkenwell House
OF Detention.
The cause OF the explosion is now ascertained
beyond q doubt. Before the catastrophe atten-
tion had been excited by the suspicious appear
class whcih represents Fenianism, loltering on
the outskirts OF the prison. The detectives
who had been engaged to watch the precincts
of the prison since Burke's Incarceration, and
who for some hours to-day watched the move.
ment of the suspicious parties, did not fail to
acquaint the officer inicharge of Burke and the
prison authorities of the occurrence. Soon after
3 o'clock one of the police ofncors went to the
bis attention being drawn to the suspicious
aspect of affairs, though no danger was at That
officer Tor q body OF consJables to resist
any possible attempt to rescue the Fenian,
Ss a 1s was ar oI1e t5a os 'ne
constables had arrived, the explosion took
place, with effects even more disastrous. we
lear Than above narrated. 1t Is said that three
persons were seen TO pass up the lane carrying
a barrel, the appearance OF which, however,
created no suspicion as TO its contents. The
men were seen TO place the barrel down, appa-
reptly for rest, against the newly built piece OF
wall, where an entrance had lately been used for
the purpose OF enlarging the prison One man
went away leaving the other in possess on of the
barrel. No one seems to have seen what took
place for few moments, when very violent
shock was felt. A great portion of the north
wall was blown up, and block of poor dwell
Ipgs, containing from twelve TO fifteen houses,
instantly became heap of ruins. Fortunately
the prison uninjured, except the glass,
which was mostly shattered, and thus the at
tempt to provide a means OF escape for Burke
proved futile. All the houses and uildings In
the vicinity were shaken to their foundations;
scarcely pane of glass, of whatever thickness,
remains entire.
People are reporting. some of them that they
were thrown upon their backs, others that they
were frightfully shaken. telegram from
London, dated Saturday morning, Dec. IA,
O'Clock A Nj, reports:-Forty-two persons are
now in The hospital and three are dead. II is
understood that the police had some informa-
tion of the attempt at rescue, and that one
policeman on duty was carried tnsensible to
the hospital. The two male prisoners decline
TO say anything. One of them states that his
name is Desmond. Their female companion
has attempted to commit suicide