Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-03-29

S1aAIIerSO DY terrible Dynamite tx
Piosion-Alleged to he the Work OF Fe-
nians-Great Alarm and CONSERVATION
Throughout the City.
LONDON, March Is.
Svery 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 a rre-
mehdous explosion.
Anime clock precIselya great defamation
was heard. followed by the crash OF glass fall
ing from thousands OF windows. 4 deliber-
ate attempt haI been made to blow up part or
the Government offices, the part occupied by
Sir Charles Dixie ana the loca. Government
Board, in the immense building bounded by
Parliament street Downing street, Charles
dtrect and St james Park.
The apartments in question front on Charles
street, and are almcsr level with the pavement.
The walls are OF great thickness and of solid
masonry, and the windows protected by mass
i've stone ba ustrade-
Oppo lite, fifty yards away, is the King Street
Police Station Fifty feet away sentry guards
the Parliament street front
Charles street is dark and unfreGuented at
night, VIII ca parity explains the extraordinary
fact that no lives were los.
he dynamite was place on the window sill
inside the baustcade, where the fuse when
burning would be concealed from the view OF
am Cne passing
The force of the explosion was terrific. The
great stone baulStrlde was obiitored, the mass
i've masonry rent 60 fragments, and the pave
ment shattered and gr und to powder. A
wooden structure opposite was blown into
splinters, and a mass of stone as dri zen
through the wall Of the house beyond it, In
side the Offices there remained nothing but
splintered wOOG, broken plaster walls burst
asunder, and an indescribable scene Of de-
struction- The street was completely covered
with the fragments of broken Plate-Eiass
blown bodily out and shattered t. atons. Tho
doors Of the King Street Police Station were
burst in by the blast of air.and the detachment
present was prostrated. Broken tim6ers and
masses of stone were sent flying into King
street. People crossing at Parliament street
were knock ed down A hanson and horse
were flung across the sidewalk against the
front CT the Whitehall Club, in which the
great plate-glass windows were driven in u
shower into the rooms
Everywhere the greatest CONSERVATION pre-
vailed. People poured out OF their houses
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.
Some twO hundred police and a detachment
of the fire brigade took possession Of Charles
ret, and drew C len around the building,
public officials were allowed to PASS.
A S the alarm sDread thousands Hooked from
all pans toward Westminster, ard the most n
tense excitement prevailed, the port rapidly
gain ng currency that the House of Commons
had been blown up.
No one tonight pretends to exp'ajn the mo-
tive or purpose of the t. 1t is asc-ibed 10
the IRISH Invnciblcs, as matt of course,
and is described as part OF Fenan plot Il
threat and warning to the Government One
thing only is cert,in-it was deed Of frjg httuI
recklessnoss and atrOcity, and only an mex
plicable good fortune prevented it from being
atte lde5 with the most serious tally.
The exp OstOn being the subject OF consider
alton in the Commons, H trcourt, Home Secre-
tlry, said he did not think il right 10 say any
thing about tae m tier until an o:ncial inquiry
had been m de. He had heard an attempt had
also been made to blow up the Times office,
but no injury had been done.
he explosion was heard at a distance of two
or three mi es.
plosive material was found behind the Ttaes
Office, with, it is rumored, a lighted fuse at
tached
The police are making an investigation.
The explosion was undOubted Y the work OF
FeniaI S. The adjacent streets are filled with
myrads OF fragments Of glass, and h avy
p'ate-gla5 is lying in heaps on the ground. A
jec.e ed against the King Street Police Station,
making hole the size of q mans head
Two children sleeping in a house at the cor
ner of King street were thrown from their
Leds by the force of the explosion, and their
faces badly cut. They were taken to the po-
ice station.
Every pane Of glass in the vicinity was shat
tered.
a man was arrested at midnight on suspic-
ion of being concerned in tie explosion
+ a cou has had a 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.
The Times attaches little importance to the
explosion which occurred at its office. The
canister contained only a small quantity of
powder.
The Daily NesUs says: at 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 counsels Of
ODonovan-ROss4. 1t is impossible not to con-
meet the authors of this outrage with certain
phases of irish crime and the assass. n press
of America"
The Times says: ''The Fenian answer TO
Gl4dstOnes speech on the Land act is no.
long delayed. We are in the presence Of the
first attempt of the dynamite parry to carr,-
out the policy of bringing the war into fbe
heart of London. The explosion at our ONCE
occurred at 7:45 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-
creants." E.#
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NEW YORK, March IS.