Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-29
ALLEGED FENIAN BOMBS.

| Part of the Government Offices in Lonooh
| Shattered by Terrible Dynamite Ex-
| plosion-llIeS to BE the Work OF Fe-
| nianS-Great Alarm and Consideration
| Throughout the City.
! LONDON, March 15
| Every part of WeStminster the Abbey the
| II buses OF Parliament. the great structures
| OF the pubic Offices, tn clubs and dwelling
| houses were violently shaken tonight by Il ire
| nerd ius explosion.
| AT nine O clock preclselya great detonation
| was heard, followed by the crash of glass fall
| ing from thousan Is of windows. A deliher-
/ ate att 'mpt ha been made to blow up part OF
| The Government offices, the part occupied by
| Sir Charles Dixie AMI the Ioca Government
| Board, IN the immc sc building bounded by
| Parliament street Downing. street, Charles
| atrect 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, anu the win .ows protected by mass
| i've stone ia Strade.
| 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 unfrequented at
| night. VIII CHI partly explains the extraordinary
| fact that no lives were lost.
| The dynamite was place on the wind W sill
| inside the batu Strade. where the fuse when
! burning would be concealed from the view Of
| anv one passing.
| The force oftheexplosion was terrific. The
| great stone baulstr ,de was obitered, the mass
| i've masonry rent to fragm ents, and the pave
| ment shattered and or und to powder. A
| wooden structure opposite was blown into
/ splinters, and mass of stone was dri ven
| through the wall of the house beyond it. In
| side the offices there remained nothing but
| spiintered wooG, broken plaster, walls burst
| asunder. and an Understandable scene of de-
| struction. The street was completely covered
| with the fragments of broken pl lta-sIass
| blown bodily out ana Sh tttercd t. atoms. The
| doors Of the King Street Police Station were
/ burst in by the blast Of air,and the detachment
| present Frustrated. Broken tims5ers and
| masses OF stone sent flying into King
| street People crossing at Parliament street
/ were 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,
| 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 detachment
| of the fire brigade took possession of Charles
| street., and drew a CIR ion around the building,
| which zone but members of Parliament and
| public officials were allowed to pass.
| AS the alarm spread thousands fiocked rom
| all parts toward Westminster. and the mos: in
! tense excitement prevailed, the port rapidly
gain ng 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 a Fenan plot, a
| threat and a warning to the Government. One
! fprtl Hood frirr f,tc t.f
recklessness and atrocity, and only mex
| plicable good fortune prevented it from being
attended with the most serious fatality.
/ The'exp oson 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 matter 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 a canister containing OK
| plosiNe material was found behind the IIstcs
| office, with, it is rumored, lighted fuse at
| tached,
| The police are making an investigation.
The explosion was undoubtedly the work Of
| Fenians The adjacent streets are fillee with
| myriads of fragments of glass, and heavy
| plate-glasS 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 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 station.
| Every pane of glass i'll the vicinity was shat
| tered. HG
| man was arrested at midnight on suspic,
| ion of being concerned in the explosion.
| Ba"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 a small quantity of
powder.
The Daily Netrs says: ut is of course OBJ
vious that the explosion the result of a
prcmeditated design We are confronted with
the fact that there are in LOnden persons bold
enough to act on the widest counsels OF
ODonovan-Rossa. 1t is impossible not to con-
meet the authors of this outrage with certsin
phases Of Irish crime and the assass n prcss
of America"
The Timcs says: THE Fenian answer 20 |
Gladstone's speech on the Land act Is no. |
long delayed We are in 1.-THE presence of the |
first attempt of the dynamite par v to carry |
out the policy of bringing the war into fhc |
heart of London. The explosion at our Office |
occurred at 40 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."
An Early Start in Married Life
NEW YORK, March Is.
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