New-York tribune., 1884-12-15
TuE LONDON EXPLOSION.
so DAMAGE DONE 10 rlm BRIDGE,

..s sottas t0oKiNa fah oitw 10 thh fth7
WV pelsAloHs Oh lif OUTAGE
.oxoos peo IA policeman whe ~ the Tine
o,,he e,plos0n was standing on TIE ."p ei w"
s,a0s leadng to the steamboat pier on the surrey
.sa Of the river with his back to the stream, says
.a saw binding glare like sheet OF iehthhs'
~ ~, was followed by terrific report. lie was
W., .,unned and his helmet was blown some
.,s away by the concussion lie ran to the
,ios station aud gave the alarm. aud soon after
ward the river police were making as minute an eA-
s,,in.ton "A possible of the buttrcsses OF the
,-;1ce and the wharves on eac.. bank of the river
.rna,r search. however, was fruitless. Daylight
.hovcd that not a single stone had been displaced
hr the shock Taking this fact into consideration
eynerts are unanimously of the opinion that the
oynlosiye agent used was thrown over the bridge
and exploded in the air or on striking the water
WHAT wHARFER SAW
Toward noou however, wharfer informed the
.oI;ca that few minutes before the explosion he
saw a boat containing three men under the arch on
the Surrey side. He took no particular notice OF
them thinking they were river police. and ana not
see the boat afterward. He supposes that they
proceeded down the river
The police this afternoon learned that piece of
charred sacking about foot and half square had
been found on one of the butresses and are now Of
They attribute the smallness of the damage to the
extraordinary air currents beneath the span. The
heads of the detective department were conferriug
with the Home Office to-day The absence OF any
clew ia paraiyline the action of the police VINO are
even unable to tell the nature OF the explosive used
DAMAGE on THE BANKS OF TIRE RIVER
II appears that the explosion occurred nearer the
Surrey end of the bridge than was at first supposed
and vet most of the houses that were damaged were
on the Middlesex side where windows were
smashed as far as Bllngsgate market. Several
panes of glass were broken in Fishmongers' Hall,
but otherwise the building received no damage.
Several squares of a lofty glass screen in the Can
non-st depot fell to the platform with crash.
greatly terrifying the passengers in the building
although nobody was injured. River traffic had
luckily been suspended at the time of the explosion
owing to darkness. The outrage forms the staple
fopic of conversation aud thousands OF persons
have visited the scene to-day. he explosion was
heard ten miles outside OF London. AT Wo0Iwlch
the arsenal gates were shaken
The Observer says that the explosion seems 10
belong to the ordinary category OF dynamite out
RACES with which recent experiences have hla9e
Englshmen unhappily familiar. Ii was perfectly
useless crime and led TO no practical result beyond
destroying a certain amount of masonry. 1t was
not attended by loss of life yet IT is obvious that
the perpetrators must have anticipated the possl-
bility OF a number OF innocent human beings being
subjected to sudden and cruel death: The CRIME.
therefore parakes of the character OF murder III
is difficult to conceive what possible end or pur-
pose the authors of such ontrages hope TO attain;
The utter absence Of correlation between cause and
effect mainly confirms the theory that these crimes
are of Ilibernan origin.
The Telegraph says that "the newest Fenian out
rage" falls far below its predecessors in actual
mischief.
MYSTERIOUS STEAM LAUNCH.
Some persons incline to the belief that gunpovder
and not dynamite used II is noteworthy fact that
Saturday the seventeenth anniversary of the
tleikenweil explosion. The windows of The build
ings of Rollins 4 Co, American merchants. sur
fefed severely. A customs officer states that
after the explosion he observed small
steam launch carrying mast forward pass at high
rate of speed down the tlvet Strangely enuugh at the
tme ei the explosion an inspector ahd two cuhstahles
wpie watching the bridge FROM boat. . rip-
taniiuh which has been adopted nightly
bi, iWo vrais Thpr snW nothing Ia
ttss tho esinsitn 80 arouse ihat srstipltns, nnh
iaip minute search aiirivanl hhi could discover huth
iha of a suspicious character. FuMp WITNESSES tnW
thiap alsMtt nnshes. Several huisrs dthVina
heavy loads we're thrown to the ground ihshn dileis
siiiIig IA shed IA Cannon sl Weie blown iion ihtr
sealS
\ number 0f detectives recently Withdrawn ffnul
speoial duy have been ordered iO return 0 ludnn aht
resume her work The precautions AZ railway saiions
"a regard TO the receipt of parcels have been Resumed