The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-17
TELEGRAPHIG NEWS
THE BRITISH BLOw-UP.
The Irish Credited with the
Explosion.
Dynamite O'ROssR fakes
Credit For RG.
Taxes


Westminster explosion represent him
and his colleagues, President Galnghar,
John Dewey, Meeham snd P, j. Sheri-
dan, as minhfully incredulous as to its
alleged cause, but quite wary aud reti-
cent. Egan thinks 1t may have been a
gas explosion, but with our present IN
formation We can say nothing about it.
a reporter saw Patrick EgAn and
asked him what be thought Of the at
tempt to blow up the & 'vernment Offices
in London. "There are no persons under
the sun" said Egsn, $50 subject to panic
as The English people. Here q common
explosion of gas pipe or something oim-
liar occurs 10 the sight OF offices as it
might anywhere, but just because they
are the governmental Offices the cry Is
raised ''Oh, it's dynamite" Later they
turn it into Irish dynamite. 1t is Ire
land, of course. / dare say. If Sheridan
had been there, they would have put
him down az connected with It,"
"Do you upp nse the Land Lesgue fund
pSid for thls lew OutrsReS
Why do yon attach any political sig
nifcsT ce to this new OutrsgeW
"Wby do you attach any political
significance to it at al7 II it were the
House Of Parliament one M ght under
stand it, but these are merely the gov
ernment offices, at least 800 yards away
with blocF of buildings between. Now,
what politics can there be in an Office ex-
plosion?"
"Then you do not connect it with q
disturbance of any sortS"
"With our present information we can
say or think nothing about it. We can
discount the Fumor, ihat is all, and am
inclined tU think the first reports of its
being q mere explosion Of gas is the cor
rect one
When 0'DonoYan Rosa was asked
to-day whether the explosion in London
was caused By dynamite or was an
accidental explosion Of gas be answered.:
| We cguid not follow out our system un-
less We used dynamite, aud that is what
caused the explosion. There was no &C
cident about it. g.
Do you think it was intended to dee
strov the building only, or kill those
within?
Ii was intended to do ell the damage
possible, and it was done to show EGG
land she had better give Ireland her own
parliament. England is at war wi h
Ireland ard Ireland should be at war
with England.
Rosa showed the following dispatch
from Boston: {" l congratulate you on
the news from London this morning. |
can collect money NV in Boston.
(Signed) JOHN D DRIsC3LL."
Rosa said he hs1 received TO day
offers of money, and h Can obtain all
that is needed. La answer to q question
as to what would next be done, he showed
q letter advising him 10 publish in his
D per q declaration of war oD England.
Signel By representative Irishmer
When that was done it could net bt
claimed that their actio were dishon'
orsble. As for wesp ms .4ll available
ones should he used. This, he said, wal
his answer,
Patrick j. Sheridan, whose extraditioI
England has reque. ted, said the work i
that of Irishmen, sn1 is but the sdvanc
picket. Much more will follow. Eng
land will shortly see she must either fire.
Ireland or suff the consequences.
London, Is. IL . m.-There is 40 enor
nous crowd gathe ed At the scene Of th
explos on last night, in the local govern
meDt board eff .es in Westminster. Tn
government inspector has made an eI
smir alton of the portion of the buildio
damaged by the explosion and places th
loss st ga 600. The vessel which cor
tanned th explosive material was place
in the cellar Of the local gevernmeI
board Offices.
The Times Gays: II the Irish extren
/ lists are really going to reply with dyni
mite 10 any measure they dissppr0ve o
it is certain the day of remedial legisli
ton is oyer.
Later and closer inspection shows tt
explosion occurred from outside of Il
building.
No arrest Is yet made in connec IL
with the explosion. The police MOTTO
nothing suspicious about the building b
fore the explosion occurred.
The times, this morning, says,
Manchester, Liverpool and London Il
feeling of English workiDgmen towsr
the Irish people, once sympathetic, b.
become cold. It only depends on a fe
4 more cases Of dynamite outrsges to tul
this feeling into actual hostility, Whit
the authorities will find very difficult
control.
The Pau Mall Gazette Gays: In maj
maps OF London the local group Of boa
offices is marked as the home ofRoa. It
thought the attempt to blow up the 70
mer building was made With the i'd
: that it was the latter, Sir William Hs
> court, home secretary, being very obnO
ious TO Fenisns.
Peoria, Ill, 16.-In an interview wi
the dynamite fend, Pat Growther, Of II
e city, he processes great exultstion at 4
attempt to blow up the governme
building in London, but did n
q favor the means employed. He prefe
i the silent destructive fame of the tort
U to the detonstion of dynamite. His id
= is to place 200 or 800 men in the lsrg
cities of England, with a few barrels
petroleum, TO await windy night, 81
at q preconcerted signal make 100 CO
hagI atoms in as many cities. spread te
ror snd destruction throughout the Ian
and make the British lion howl
peace and sccede 10 any terms. Pat W
A.mbsvept while depicting the scenes
terror thus caused. He disclaims co
nection with the London explosion, b
rpjoiees at its effect. He knew nothil
: about it till this morning. u
thought Rosa might have been aware
the plot and thinks it undoubtedly t
work OF invincibles.