Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-16
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THB WORK OP FRNIANS. Explosions in the Streets
 of London. THE CITY WILD WITH EXCITEMENT. People On all Sides Tremb-
 ling With Fear. THE STORY OF THE INFORMERS. | Shaped ia Advance by the
 GOvernment.
THE OLD WORLD.
Ireland.

Fenians at WOrk-Fir1ng Fuses fn the Office of the Government Bonrd-An Eff
 fort to Blow Up the Times Building. LONDON, March 16.-The city is in a state of wild excitement over what is believed to be most daring Fenian outrage. At 9 o'clock last night disastrous explosion occurred in the offices of the local government board in Charles street, Whitehall, causing large amount of damage, destroying all the win dows and completely shattering the basemen t of the buildings. The reverberation of the explosion was heard throughout great part of London and caused the greatest excite ment and consternation. No one was injured so far as is known now. It is sup posed that dynamite or nitro-glycerine was the explosive agent employed. The po- lice force in the district has been doubled and the troops at the different barracks are un- der arms. The houses of Parliament and the various government offices are now guarded by both the police and military. There is no clue whatever to the perpetrators of the outrage. An additional alarm was caused shortly after the first explosion by 8 desperate attempt to blow up the office of the London Tunes Soon after the lights on the ground floor of the Tunes building had been extinguished last night the watchman noticed 8 man loiter- ing in suspicious manner in the court yard On the watchmans going towards him the man suddenly disappeared in 8 most mysteri- ous manner. Immediately afterward a Ire. mendous explosion occurred in the court yard, brilliantly Illuminating all the surrounding buildings and terrifying everyone in the vicinity, but fortunately do- ing no damage beyond the breakage of few windows. A badly shattered tin box with fuse attached was found in the court yard, but not the slightest trace of the perpetra- tors can be found. The watchman will be unable to identify the incendiary, as owing to the darkness he got only brief glimpse of the man who fired the fuse. The feeling of consternation in the city is almost beyond description.
 The force of the explosion at the offices of the local government board ploughed up a large trench in front of the basement and threw down enormous masses of masonry and brick work. All the windows in the i'm mediate vicinity were smashed and in many cases the window frames were blown in. It is uncertain whether the explosive material was placed outside of the building between the balustrade and windows or in the cellars beneath, but the general opinion inclines to the latter theory. Several of the inmates of the building barely escaped with their lives and it is little less than in the structure at the moment of the explosion should have escaped death. The force of police has been doubled at all the government offices and the resi- dences of the members of the cabinet and other government officials are strongly guarded by special officers. The excitement increases with every hour. The guard at the Bank of England has been increased four times it's usual strength.