Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-01
THE SI0NLEN POLODS.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE
DASTARDLY ACT.

A Train Guards Story of What He Saw
The Nature of the Explosives USED
Not Determined-The Excitement Still
0reat-O'Donovan Rosa Again to the
Front.
LONDON, Oct. 81, P. M.-No explosive
matter has yet been found at the Praedi
street station. An inspector from the
nome otfice this morning viewed the scene
OF the explosion there and afterwards ex.
amined the damaged train. He expressed
the opinion that cartridges, made of the
frst order of explosives, such as gun cot.
ton, were used by the miscreants. A
guard of the train states that while he
was looking out of the car window. lust
after the train left the Praedt street
station, he saw some sparks nearly under
meath the carriage and Immediately after
wards heard the explosion. The eX-
plOsive used at Charing Cross station was
small in quantity and not believed to have
been dynamite.
LONDON, Oct. 81, 4P. M.-The excite
ment over the explosions on the Under
ground Railway line last evening is very
great. A large number of policemen
under special inspectors were on duty all
night at the various railway stations and
guarding the line. A heavy force was
also employed watching the Houses of
Parliament and other public build
ings. The explosion at Charing Cross
occurred 200 yards west of the station.
There was no train there at the time. The
walls of the tunnel were battered, but the
rails were not misplaced. The windows
in the station were blown out. The roof
was not damaged. No person was hurt
there. At Praedt street station the force
of the explosion was terrible. Although
workmen have been busily engaged all
night in removing the debris they have
not yet finished their task, nor has the
damage at that place been repaired. The
tunnel there was not destroyed, but a
deep hole was eXcavated in the road bed.
Some brick work was blown out
and the gas pipes and telegraph lines
were broken. The refreshment saloon
was wrecked and the windows of the
other rooms of the station were smashed.
The explosion occurred Immediately under
the passing train, 40 yards west of the
station. All the persons injured were in
the last two carriages of the train.
Twenty-eight wounded were taken to st.
Mary's Hospital. Four of them are seri-
Ously hurt, but they are expected to re-
cover. Others were able to 90 to their
homes during the night. Both Of the ex-
plosions occurred about $40 O'Clock in
the evening. All the available detectives
of the Metropolitan police force are
engaged in searching for the perpetra-
tors of the Outrages, and the railway
officials are assisting them. The police
deny that any rocket cartridges have
been found near the scenes of the explo-
siOns. No traces have as yet been dis
covered of the nature of the explosives.
1t has been ascertained, though, that eX-
plOsions could not have been caused by
coal gas. No clue to the persons who
caused the explosions has been obtained.
Major Majendie, of the Board of Trade,
is making an examination of the scene of
explosion at Charing Cross station.
Trains are running as usual this morning.
NEW YORK, Oct. t.31.-ODonOvan ROssa
comes to the front, as usual, when any
damage has been done in England which
has the appearance of being the work of
design. He says the explosions which oc-
Cured yesterday in the Underground
Railway in London were the work of the
Fenian Brotherhood, of whose movements
he is apprised. The work was done by a
band of Fenians in London, who were in
constant communication with their COM
rades in New York. The WOOlwich eX-
plosion was only another sample of what
is being done. London would be in ashes,
he said, before long unless England gave
up Ireland. New developments might be
expected at any moment, for it was now
the purpose of the Brotherhood to push the
work rapidly forward and reduce England
to submission.
Investigations made by the scientific
advisers to the War Department have led
to the conclusion that nitro-glycerine in
some form was the agent used in both
cases. Later inquiries confirm the early
statement that large number of people
were injured in addition to over thirty
treated at the hospital. A large number
were attended by private surgeons.
The police warned the railway officials
three months ago that they had received
advices from America of threatened eX-
plosiOns. Precautions were then taken
to provide against them. The explosives
used last evening were powerful, but
were in limited quantity The holes
made in the ground and in the brick-work
were small.