The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-20
THE CZAR's ESCAPE.
DalIiRnce with His Mistress
Saved His Lie.
Additional Particulars of Ehe
Winter Palace Explosion

London, 1S.-Vsrious sovereigns hay
sent congratulations to TIE Gar on tt.
escape OF his majesty and the imperia
family from the atrocious attempt OF
their lives in the Winter Palace. Londol
and continental journals unite in expires
sing horror at the plot IN which it i
generally believed some employees of III
palace were concerned No additiona
details Of the affair have been received
Grand Duke Nicholas will leave Paris
J to-day for St. Petersburg.
! New York, 1S.-HeTdld'S Paris: Priv,
ate dispatches received this morning give
consecutive story of the attempt tC
blow up the Winter Palace at st. Peters.
burg. II appears that when the Gar is
at the capital he dimes at 6 O'Clock. since
the return Of the Empress dinner has
generally been postponed for half an
hour. Quiet as is the Emperor in ordin-
arS life it has been quieter lhsn ever
during the past month. He had little
appetite for lunch at II, and after staying
all the morning cioseted with his secre-
tary, he returned at once to receive the
visits of his ministers. His afternoon
drives, for which the people used to wait
in expectant crowds along the quays,
have been altogether abandoned. His
dinner has occupied even less time than
of old.
La France asserts that he happened to
be in the apartments of the Princess
Delgeronky at the moment the explosion
took place. 1t is well known that the
Empress has recently given her complete
sanction to the presence Of this lady, who
Is the only person at court that can ap-
prosch him in his moross moods, which
are now his normal coalition, and which
are believed 10 be premonitions of soften
ing of the brain. To the Cars long
stay in the princess apartments it is be.
ieved he owes his life, as well as that of
the imperial family.
EutT1e, however, asserts that the EN-
peror was busily discussing with Prince
Of Bulgaria, the politics of
the Balkan provinces, when dinner was
announced, but being deeply engrossed
they were first aroused by the terrible ex-
plosion. The Gar was perfectly calm.
and an hour later sat down quietly to
dinner beside the great gap in the floor.
The Empress was asleep in her room and
heard nothing Of the explosion, Express
orders were issued that she should be
left in ignorance Of the event.
st. Petersburg, IS.-The official in
luiry into the cause of the explosion at
The Winter Palace develops the fact that
The mine was composed of dynamite and
gun cotton, and has been traced to the
fuel cellar in the inner court. Since the
inquiry commenced, workmen who were
engaged in the room Immediately be-
meath the guard room, the scene Of the
explosion, have fed. The cause of the
delay Of the Czsr in entering the dining
ball was owing to his reception of Prince
Hess, who had just arrived to take part
in the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
Cars accession to the throne.
London, 19.-The Times, commenting
On the explosion in the Winter Palace
1t st. Petersburg, says: The central
Of the Gar must be Upheld, if /
that order is to be maintained which is
an indispensable condition of progress. /
like this must be pun ished
with sufficient severity to crush them,
but if in conjunction with these necessary
the Gar pgrsues q course of
gradual reforms, he may entertain rea-
Ionable hope that these horrors will pass
away.
st. Petersburg, 19.-The arrest of some
iorty inmates Of the Winter Palace ON
Monday, is believed to be connected with |
lie explosion on Tuesday.
Gen. G0urko, governor general of st.
Petersburg, was engaged .at the Winter
Palace the whole night of the 18th, in
vestigating the explosion. The dyna-
mite was fired by an electric battery.
Several pounds Of that explosive must
nave been used. The cellars Of the
palace have long been used for storing
and appear to have been occu-
pied by four workmen, three of
whom are under arrest. The fourth is
missing. Many arrests were made in the
Winter Palace and immediate neighhor-
hood.