The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-24
ALLEGED FENIAN BOMBS.

Part of the Government omces In London
shattered by Terrible Dynamite Ex-
plosion-Alieged to lie 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 we're violently shaken tonight by a tire
mendous explosion.
At nine o clock precisely great defamation
was heard, followed by the crash of glass fall
ing from thousands of windows. deliber-
ate attempt had been made to blow up part OF
the Government offices, the part occupied by
Sir Charles Dixie and the local Governments
Board, in the immense building bounded by
Parliament street, Downing street, Charles
street and St James Pork.
The apartments in question front on Charles
street, aud are almostlevel with the pavement
The walls arc of great thickness and of solid
masonry, and the windows protected by mass
i've stone balustrade.
Oppo lite, fifty yards away, is the King Street
Police Station. Fifty feet away sentry guards
che Parliament street 'front.'
Charles street is dark and unfrequented af
night, which partly explains the extraordinary
fact that no lives were lost.
The dynamite was placed on the window sill
inside the baustrade, 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 runt to fragments, and the pave
ment shattered and ground to powder. A
wooden structure opposite was blown into
sphnters, and a mass of stone was driven
through the wall of the house beyond 1t. In
side the offices there remained nothing but
ILL.,.
asunder, and an indescribable scene of de-
struction. The street was completely covered
with the fragments of broken pllte-giasa
blown bodily out and shattered to atoms The
doors of the King Street Police Station wera
burst in by the blast of air and the detachment
present was Frustrated. Broken timbers and
masses of stone were sent flying into King
street. People crossing at Parliament street
were knocked down. A hanson and horse
were flung across the sidewalk against tho
front of the Whitehall Club, in which the
great plate-glass windows were driven in a
shower into the rooms.
Everywhere the greatest CONSERVATION pref
vailed People poured out of their housesi
the broken glass cracking under their feet
In the House of Commons the alarm was
general. Many members left immediately
The lobby was emptied, and people rushed out
of Westminster Hall.
o'ihS i"O hhlluiCu pOllCO
of the fire brigade took possession of Charles
street, and drew a GORDON around the building-
which no one but members of Parliament and
| public officials were allowed to pass
As the alarm spread thousands locked from
| all partstoward Westminster, and 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-
| n nlfr of fhn q 10 bod e.
| the Irish Invincibles as a matter of course,
| and is described as part of a Fenian plot, a
| threat and warning to the Government. One
thing only is certain-it was a deed Of frightfuI
| recklessness and atrocity, and only an mex
plicable good fortune prevented it from being
| attended with the most serious fatality.
The expo sion being the subject'of consider
| alton in the Commons, Harcourt, Home Secre-
tary, said he did not think il right 10 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 no 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 are making an investigation.
The explosion was undoubted the work Of
Fenians The adjacent streets are filled with
| myra1s of fragments of glass, and heavy
| p'ate-glas is lying in heaps on the ground. A
stone weighing two hundred pounls was pro-
jec ed against the King Street Pc ice Station,
making hole the size of a 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-
Ice station.