Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-15
THE LONDON EXPLOSION.
The Detectives Unable to Offer Any
Explanation as TO the Origin
of the Explosion.
Thousands of People Visit the Bridge
and the Affair Becomes the Sole
Topic OF Conversation.
THE LONDON EXPLOSION.
no INJURY DONE 10 TnE BRIDGE.

No INJURY DONE TO THE BRIDGE.
LONDON, Dec. l4.-A careful i'm
spection Of tie London bridge was
made to-day. 1t was found that no
injury whatever had been done.
Nothing could be found about the
bridge TO indicate that AN explosion
had occurred, The police have dis
covered nothing likely to assist their
inquiries as TO the
ORIGIN or THE EXPLOSION,
The heads of the detective depart
m ent were comforting with the homo
ofiice during the entire day, The
absen ce of any clew Is paralyzlnR the
action of the police, who are unable 10
tell the nature Of the explosive used
IL appears that the explosion occurred
nearer the Surrey end of the bridge
than was at first supposed, and yet
most Of the houses damaged were
on the Middlesex side, where
THE WINDOWS WERE SMASHED
as far as the Billiug-gate market,
Several paues Of glass were broken In
the FehmongeTs hall, but otherwise
the building received no damage.
Several squares OF lofty glass screen
IN the Cannon street depot fell 70 the
platform with crash, greatly teTTify-
ing the passengers In the building al
though nobody was injured. The eX,
ploslon forms the staple topic Of
conversation, and thous ands OF people
| visited the scene 10 day.
| A PoLlCEMAR's TALE
! LONDON, Dec. IA "A policeman,
who ut the time OF the explosion WIS
standing on top Of the steps leading TO
the steamboat pier on the surrey SIDE
] Of the river with his back u the
/ stream, says that he saw binding
glare like . sheet Of lightning, which
was followed by
A TERRIFIC REPORT.
He was almost stunned. His nelmel
was blown some yards away by the
conclusion. He ran To The police sta
lion and gave the alarm. soon after
ward the river police were making ~
minute an examination as possible OF
/ the buttresses OF the bridge and
wbarves on each bank uf the river.
Their search, however. was fTuitless
DAYLIGHT showed that not =
single stone bad been displaced by the
shock. Taxing this fact into con-
Alteration, the experts are unanimous
ly Of the opinion that the explosive
agent used was thrown over the bridge
and exploded In the air or
on STRIKING THE WATER.
Towards noon. however, a wbariei
informed the police that few min
utes before the explo'ion be
saw boat containing Three
men under the arch on the SarreJ
side. He took no particular notice o
them, thinking that they belonged u
the diver police, and he did not see tb'
boat afterwards. IL Is supposed tina
they
PROCEEDED DOwN THE RlyEh.
The police this afternoon learned
that piece Of eharrtd eacking about I
foot aud half square bad ben foun'
on one Of the butiT' SIS, and hey 81
now OF the opinion that the exploslv
was placed there. They attribute ih
; smAllness OF the damage 10 the extra
2 ordinary Bir currents beneath IN
? span. No arrests have been made.
2 THE NEWSPAPER COMMENTS.
9 LONDON, Dec. II The newspaper
! throw no light on the explosion Mo-
Z all of the statements were surmises'
y The Telegraph say: +" The news
Fenian outrage falls lar below ila pr
deeees0rB In tuAl mischief Some Ne
Y sous Incline TO the belief that gui
!. powder and not dynamite was use'
tits noteworthy Of the fact that sAtu