The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-16
Finding of Dangerous Explosive. with
Fuse Attached, Near the Building
Occupied by the Times.
The Authorities Claim to Have Sc
rious Evidence Against Egan.
Gladstone Denounced by the Catholic Clergy
A Proposed Alliance Against Social
Disturbers-General News.
THE DYNAMITE PLAN.
Attempt to Blow Up the Government onlces
in London.

| in London
| LONDON, March 15.-There was terrific gas
explosion in the local government board Of
ices, at Westminster, at o'clock tonight,
destroying much property. The report was
heard in the House of Commons, and caused
alarm. The conclusion was so great that it
shook the side galleries and the reporters,
gallery. 1t being the dinner hour, but few
members were in the hall. The Duke of
Edinburg was in the peers gallery and
seemed alarmed. The speaker rang his bell
and asked the cause of the alarm. No one
was injured. The widest rumors are ahoat
The report resembled the discharge of an
eighty-ton gun.
LATER.-It is now believed the explosion
was caused by dynamite, and was deliber-
attempt to blow up the government offices.
The explosion being the subject of consid-
Grafton in the Commons, Harcourt home
secretary said he did not think it right to
say anything about the matter until an
official inquiry had been made He had
heard an attempt had been made to blow up
the Times Office, but no injury was done.
The explosion was heard at distance of
tNO VI luTSS niles.
Yesterday evening a canister containing
explosive material was found behind the
Times office. with, it is rumored, a lighted
fuse attached The police are making an in
vestigation. The officials think the explo-
sion was caused by gunpowder or dynamite
The officers Of the Gas Company declare they
can find no evidence that it was caused by
gas.
THE WORK OF FENIANs.
The explosion was undoubtedly the work
of Fenians The adjacent streets were filed
with myriads of fragments of glass, and
heavy pate-glass is lying in heaps on the
ground. A stone weighing 300 pounds was
projected against the King-street police sta
ton, making a hole the size of mans
head. Nothing will be touched until in
| quiry is made. The full extent of the
damage cannot be estimated until daylight
Five hundred constables are guarding the
! scene The building has the appearance of
having been bonn mbarded. There is a deep
| trench, ten feet by three, in one room, the
| floor of which has been literally pummelled
Two children sleeping in house at the
| corner OF King street were thrown from their
bedding by the force of the explosion and
| their faces badly cut they were taken to a
police station. Every pane of glass in the
vicinity was shattered.
man was arrested at midnight on sus-
picion OF being concerned in the explosion
Harcourt 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 the building. After
the explosion the force of police at the
houses of Parliament was doubled. The
government Offices and the residences of the
ministers are strongly guarded.
The Times attaches little importance to
the explosion which occurred at its office.
The canister contained only small quantity
of powder.
The Daily News says: at is, of course,
obvious that the explosion was the result of
premeditated design. We are con-
fronted with the fact that there are in
London persons bold enough to act on
the widest counsels OF O'Donovan Rosa.
1t isimpossible not to connect the authors of
this outrage with certain phases of Irish
crime and the assassin press of America"
The Times says: THE Fenian answer to
Gladstone's speech on the land act
is not long delayed. We are in the pres
ence of the first attempt of the dynamite
party to carry out its policy of bringing war
into the heart of London. The explosion at
our office occurred at 7;45 on Wednesday
evening but the falling of the canister pre-
vented any serious damage. There is reason
to believe that two attempts of this kind were
made by the same miScreantsn