Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-31
A DYNAMITE REVIVAL.
LONDON SHAKEN BY THREE
SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS.

The Junior Carlton Club, the Army and
Navy Club and Scotland Yard the
Scenes of the Concussions-Half a
Dozen Persons Slightly Injured-Nc
Arrests Yet.
LONDON. May SO.-A sharp report was
heard at 9:20 O'Clock tonight outside Of
the Junior Carlton Club House. in Pail
Mall, resulting from a bomb thrown In
the basement of the club at the back of
st. James square. a cabman states that
he saw man light what was apparently
fuse and then run away. Immediately
after there was report, followed by
volume of smoke. After an inter-
val of a few seconds, the cabman saws.
another report occurred between the army
Intelligence department, which adjoins
the Junior Carlton Club and the Army
and Navy Club House, facing it on the
opposite side of st. James square. The
basement of the Carlton Club House was
shattered, and four female servants. who
were at work there, were severely in
Jured. The club house was crowded with
members at the time of the explosion.
several lights were extinguished. The
lights throughout the entire building of
the Army and Navy Club were extin-
guished and windows blown in.
SCOTLAND YARD SHAKEN UP.
Explosions of dynamite occurred out
side of the detective office in Scotland
Yard, London, at 9:35 O'clock this even-
ing. The corner of the building. which
was composed of thick brick work. was
blown of to height of thirty feet, taking
with 1t part of the side walls and revealing
an aperture fifteen feet wide. Many
caf loads of debris lying around attest to
the strength of the explosive. A
Brougham cab standing opposite the point
Of the explosion was wrecked and the
coachman was hurt. 4 policeman was
blown across the yard, and, striking
against the wall, was injured. Several
others were injured by receiving cuts
from glass, which flew in all directions.
The explosive appears to have been placed
IN urinal let into the wall at the rear
OF the large building occupied by detec-
tives.
WHAT SEARCH REVEALED.
LONDON, May 80, 1:14P. M.-Col. Me-
Jendie, Inspector of Explosives, examined
the scene of the dynamite operations in
ran Mall late tonight. The housekeeper
OF the Army Intelligence Department
AYERS that the second explosion in st.
James square was caused by a bomb
which he saw lighted with fuse a second
or two before the explosion occurred. An
averted by the failure of a fuse to burn.
The police found several cakes of dyna-
mite in the vicinity. Nearly all of the
houses in st. James Square suffered from
the force of the cencussion. A
later search resulted in the discovery of
more explosive materials. A canister OF
unexploded dynamite has been found in
Scotland Yard. The police authorities ex-
press the opinion that the attempts on the
two locations were intended to be simul-
taneous. The individual who lighted the
fuse In st. James square was pursued by
an indignant and excited crowd. but man.
aged to escape by jumping into a cab.
which had been in readiness and which
was lost sight of in the darkness of the
night and confusion. A policeman and
four others of those injured are pro-
nounced in precarious condition. Six
teen pockets of dynamite with fuses at
tached were found at 1890 O'Clock to-
night under the Nelson monument in
Trafalgar square.
The police believe that the dynamite
discovered under the Nelson monument
N trafalgar square is Of American manu-
facture,