The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-06-04
Dynamite in London.
By cable to the n. Y. Herald. |

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LONDON, May 80, 1sS4-An explosion
of dynamite occurred outside of the de-
/ tectiYe Office in the Scotland Yard, Lon
don, at thirty-fFe minutes past nine
O'Clock this evening. The corner of the
building, which was composed of thick
brickwork, was blown of to height of
| thirty feet, taking with it a portion of
/ the side walls and revealing an aperture
| fifteen feet wide Many cartloais of
debris lying around attest to the strength
| of the explosive.
A brougham standing opposite. the
point of the explosion was wrecked and
the coaehman injured A policeman
was blown across the yard, and striking
against the wall, was injured. Several
other persons were injured by receiving
cuts from glass, which flew in all direc-
tions. The explosive appears to have
been placed in urinal let into the build
ing occupied by the detectives.
A sharp report was heard at twenty
minutes past nine o'clock tonight out
side the Junior Carlton Club House in
Pail Mall resulting from bomb thrown
into the basement of the club house at
the back of st. James square. A cab
man states that he saw man light what
was apparently a fuse and then run
away. Immediately afterward there was
a report followed by volume of smoke.
After an interval of a few seconds,
the cabman says, another report occur
ed between the Army Intelligence De
partment, which adjoins the Junior Carl
ton Club House and the Army and
Navy Club House facing it on the OPP
posite 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 injured. The Club House was |
crowded with members at the time of |
the explosion. Several lights were ex-
tinguished. The lights throughout the
entire building of the Army and Navy |
Club were extinguished and the windows
blown in.
Colonel Majendie, Inspector of Ex-
plosives, examined the scene of the dyna- /
mite operations in Pail Mall late to-
night. The housekeeper of the Army
Intelligence Department, AYERS that the
second explosion in st. James square
was caused by bomb which he saw
lighted with fuse second or two be-
fore the explosion occurred.
Another explosion in Scotland Yard
was ayerted by the failure of the fuse to
burn. The police here found several
cakes of dynamite in the vicinity. A
member of the Carlton Club House says
he detected strong smell of gunpowder
after the explosion. Nearly all the
houses in st. James square suffered from
the force of the conclusion.
A later search results in the discovery
of more explosive materials. A canister
of unexploded dynamite has been found
in Scotland Yard. The police author
tiles express the opinion that the at
tempts on the two locations were intend
ed to be simultaneous.
The individual who lighted the fuse
ia st. James square was pursued by an
indignant and excited crowd, but mana
ged to make his escape by jumping into
! cab which had been in readiness, and
which was lost sight of in the darkness
Of the night and the great confusion.
The policemen and four others of those
injured are pronounced in preearious
condition.
Sixteen packets of dynamite, with
use attached, were found at half-past
EN- tonight, under the Nelson monu
nent in Trafalgar square.
The police believe the dynamite dis
covered under the Nelson monument,
in Trafalgar square, is of American