Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-03-21

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The Local Government Offices Blown
up and the Parliament Buildings
Observation-Disclosures Presented OF
asComplete Ruin as Two Hours
Bombardment Would Effect.
A London dispatch of the 18th says: A
terrific explosion in the local government
board officers, Westminster, occurred at 8
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 of the galleries
and reporters gallery. 1t being the dinner
hour, but few members Of the house were
in the hall. The duke of Edinburgh 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 we! atioat The report
resembled the discharge of an eighty-tOn
gun. 1t is believed the explosion was
caused by dynamite, aud was deliberate
attempt 10 blow up the government offices
The explosion being subject Ct cOnsidera-
ten 95 IN ths house su ct 90 a I
right to say anything about the Ii after until
an official inquiry been mad.
He had heard that an attempt was
made to blow up the Times office,
but no injury was done. The ex plOsion was
heard at distance of two or three miles.
Yesterday evening canister containing
explosive material was found behind the
Times Office with, it is rumored, lighted
fuse attached. The police are making an
investigation The officials think the ex-
plosion was caused by gunpowder or dyna-
mite. The officers of the gas company de-
clare that they can find no evidence that it
was caused by gas. The force of the ex-
ploson shot large portions of masonry
across the street. The explosion was un-
doubtedly the work of Fenians. Adjacent
streets are filled with myriads of fragments
in heaps on the ground. A stone
weighing 200 pounds was projected against
the King street police station, making
hole the size of mans head. Nothing
will be touched until an inquiry is made to-
morrow. The full extent of the damage
cannot be eliminated until daylight. Five
hundred constables are guarding the scene.
The building has the appearance of having
been bOmbarded. There is a deep trench
ten feet by three in one rOom the floor OF
which has been literally plowed. Two
children eeping in house corner of King
street, were thrown from their bees
by the force of the explosion, and their
faces were badly cut. They were taken
to asspotice station. Every pane Of glass in
the vicinity was shattered. A man was ar
rested at midnight on suspicion ofbeing con-
cerned in the explosion. HarcOurt has had
a,conferrence with the chief Of police, at
which several witnesses were examined.
The conclusion reached was that the ex-
plosion occurred inside the room and not
outside the building. Af,er the explosion
the force of police at the house of parlia-
ment was doubled. The government offices
and residences of ministers was strongly
guarded. The Times attached little impor-
lance to the explosion which occurred at
this Office. The canister contained only
small quantity of powder The Daily News
says:
1t is, ofc5urSe, obvious that the explosions
was the result eff Fremeditated design. We
are confronted with thef4ct that there are in
London persons BOLD enough to get On the
widest couusels of O'DonOvan Rosa. 1t
is impossible not to connect the perpetra-
ton of this outrage with a certain phase of
Irish crime and the assassin press of Amer
lea.
The Times SAYS:
The Fenian answer to Gladstones speech
on the land act was not long delayed. We
are in the presence of the first attempt of the
dynamite party to carry out the policy of
bringing the war into the heart of London.
The explosion at our office occurred at 7:45
nnSHo hT1t ttp fAi of no
canister prevented any serious damage.
There is reason to believe that two attempts
of this kind were made by the same mis-
creants.
LONDON. March 16.-There is an
enormous crowd gathered at the scene of
the explosion last night in the Local govern
ment board officers in Westminster. The
government inspector has made an examin-
alton of the portion ofthe building damaged
by he explosion, and places the loss at
$4,000. Inspection shows that the explo-
sion occur ed from the outside of the build
ing. No arrests have yet been made in con-
nection with the explosion. The police
noticed nothing suspicious about the build
ing before the explosion
occurred. The Pail Mall Gazette
says that in many maps of London the To-
cal government board office is marked as
the home office. 1t is thought the attempt
to blow up the following building was
made with the idea that it was the latter,
SIR William Harcourt, home secretary, be-
ing very obnoxious to the Fenans. The
government offers reward Of 81, QUO for the
discovery of tie authors of the attempt on
the Times office. Any one not the ctual
culprit giving information into the origin of
the explosion will be pardoned.
1t is stated that a magistrate has unearthed
astounding evidence connecting O'Donovan
Rosa with a patriotic brotherhood conspi
racy. Sir Charles Dixie president oflocaI gov
eminent board, thinks the attempt was not
upon himself or officials of his department.
The evil doors intended to cause widespread
obstruction of property. He is of the opin-
ion that the plot organized with the mana
gers OF the skirmish tuDd. S;r William Har-
court and other home office officials believe
the attempt was directed against the crini-
nal inquiry department, which is adjacent
to the Offices of the local government board.
The guards have been doubled at the maya
zines and military centers. Dublin detec-
tiyes are assisting the London police