The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-23
BLOWN TO PIECES.

Part Of the Government Offiees in London
Shattered by Terrible Dynamite Ex-
plosiOn-Alleged to Be the Work of Fe-
nians-Great Alarm and CONSERVATION
Throughout the City.
LONDON, March Is.
Every part of Westminster, the Abbey, the
Houses of Parliament, the great structures
Of the public Offices, the clubs and dwelling
houses were violently shaken tonight by ire
mendous explosion.
At nine O clock precisely qrelt defamation
was heard, followed by the crash of glass fall
ing from thousands of windows. A deliber-
ate attempt hal been made to blow up part of
the Government Offices. the part occupied by
Sir Charles Dixie AMI the loca Government
Board, in the immense building bounded by
Parliament street, Downing street, Charles
street and St James Park.
The apartments in question front on Charles
street. and are almost level with the pavement.
The walls are of great thickness and of solid
masonry, and the windows protected by mas3-
i've stone ba ustrade.
Oppo site, fifty yards away, is the King Street
Police Station Fifty feet away sentry guards
the Parliament street front.
Charles street is dark and unfrequented at
night, which partly explains the extraordinary
fact that no lives were lost.
The dynamite was place on the wind sill
inside the balustrade, where the fuse when
burning would be concealed from the view of
any one passing.
The force of the explosion was terrific The
great stone baulstrade was oblitered, the mass
i've masonry rent to fragments and the pave
ment shattered AMI gr> und to powder. A
wooden structure opposite was blown into
spinters, and mass of stone was driven
through the wall of the house beyond it. In
side the offices there remained nothing but
splintered wood, broken plaster, walls burst
agunder, and an indescribable scene of de-
struction. The street was completely covered
with the fragments of broken plate-glass
blown bodily out and shattered to atoms. The
doors of the King Street Police Station were
burst in by the blast of airand the detachment
present was Frustrated. Broken timbers and
masses of stone were sent flying into King
street. People crossing at Parliament street
we're knocked down. A hanson and horse
were flung across the sidewalk against the
front of the Whitehall Club, in which the
great plate-glass windows were driven in a
shower into the rooms.
Everywhere the greatest CONSERVATION pre-
vailed. People poured out of their houses,
che broken glass cracking under their feet
general. Many members left Immediately
The lobby was emptied and people rushed out
of Westminster Hall.
Some two hundred police and detachment
of the fire brigade took possession of Charles
rect, and drew corlon around the building,
which no one but members of Parliament and
public officials were allowed to pass.
AS the alarm spread thousands fiocked from
all parts toward Westminster, aud the most in
tense excitement prevailed, the report rapidly
gaining currency that the House of Commons
had been blown up.
No one tonight pretends to explain the mo-
tive or purpose of the act. 1t is ascribed to
the Irish Invincibles, as matter of course,
and is described as part of Fenian plot, a
threat and warning to the Government One
thing only is certain-it was deed of frightful
reeklessness and atrocity, and only an mex
plicable good fortune prevented it from being
attended with the most serious tally. 5s.
The exp osion being the subject of consider
alton in the Commons, Harcourt, Home Secre-
tary said he did not think it right to say any
thing about the m tier until an official inquiry
had been made He had heard an attempt had
also been made to blow up the Times office,
but 40 injury had been done.
The explosion was heard at a distance of two
or three miles,
yesterday evening canister containing ex-
plosive material was found behind the Times
Office, with, it is rumored, lighted fuse at
tached.
The police az making an investigation.
The explosion WAS undoubted the work Of
Feniars. The adjacent streets are filled with
myriads of fragments of glass, and heavy
pate-glas~ is lying in heaps on the ground. A
stone weighing two hundred pounds was pro-
jected against the King Street Police Station,
making hole the size of mans head
Two children sleeping in a house at the cor
ner of King street were thrown from their
beds by the force of the explosion, and their
faces badly cut. They were taken to the po-
lice staff IN.
A man was arrested at midnight on suspic-
ion of being concerned in tie explosion
Ha court has had conference with the
Chief of Police, at which several witnesses
were examined. The conclusion reached was
that the explosion occurred inside the room,
and not outside tn building.
The Times attaches little Importance to the
explosion which occurred at it's Office. The
canister contained only small quantity OF
powder.
The Daily Ne,os says: "It is of course OBJ
vious that the explosion was the result of a
premeditated design. We are confronted with
the fact that there are In Londen persons bold
enough to act on the widest counseIs of
ODonoyan-Rossa. 1t is impossible net to con-
meet the authors of this outrage with certain
phases of Irish crime and the assassin press
of America
The Times says: '@rhe Fenian answer to
Gladstohe's speech on the Land act is not
long delayed. We are in Fthe presence of the
first attempt of the dynamite par to carry
out the policy of bringing the war into the
heart of London. The explosion at our Office
occurred atlas Wednesday evening, but the
falling of the canister prevented any serious
damage. We have reason to believe the two
attempts of this kind were by the same mis-