The Indianapolis journal., 1885-01-25

AFTER THE EXPLOSION.
The City in a State of Frenzied Excitement
Notes and Incidents.
LONDON Jan. A.-The city is in frenzied
excitement The whole police force is on duty
and the troops in and around the city are under
arms. Police patrols have been stationed every
where in close proximity to each other, and a
Gordon of police has been drawn around every
public building. Chief Superintendent Williams,
of Scotland yard, personally inspected the scenes
of the explosions. as have also inspectors Liv-
| ingstone and Kelly.
! One of the wounded policemen is dying. Sew
eral men have been arrested, but are believed to
be innocent of any connection with the horrible
outrage A man who was taken into custody in
the vicinity of Westminster Hall is Canadian,
and apparently seafarer; he was thoroughly
searched, but nothing of an discriminating nature
was found.
The Queen has telegraphed for particulars of
the explosion to Sir VIM. Harcourt
Hundreds of rifles we're damaged in the
tower which was ignited and the fire suppressed
with great difficulty. The ancient armory was
destroyed.
An intense anti-Irsh feeling is caused by the
outrage and it is certain to unfavorably affect
decent Irishmen employed, or seeking employ
ment in England. Vigilance committees and
anti Irish leagues of employers are talked Of
1t is estimated, according to the course and
energy of the explosive employed in the House
of Commons that if the House had been in ses
sion, Mr. Gladftone, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, Charles Bradlaugh and 200 other
members would have been killed.
The search of visitors at the Tower, after the
explosion, occupied four hours.
/ The number of those injured by the explosions
is as follows: AT the tower six Injured serious
ly, and fourteen slightly; at the Parliament
buildings, four seriously and ten slightly. The
worst injuries were received by Constables Cox
| and Cole, and civil engineer named Edwin
Green who was visiting the Parliament build
| ings Over one hundred visitors in the
| House of Commons when the explosion occurred
| in Westminster hall most of them rushed out of
| the building, and thus many lives were saved.
| The Tower was fairly filled with visitors at the
moment the explosion occurred. and many per-
sons were seriously injured. One man had a
| leg smashed, and another had an ear completely
| severed from his head; two were taken to hos
| pital, where their wounds have been carefully
| dressed
Excited crowds still remain about the Tower,
| and cries for vengeance are heard on every
| side. The throng of people about the Par
! lament buildings continues as great as ever
| at this hour, and the crowd is tumultuous with
excitement. The policeman most seriously in
| jured by the explosion is sinking rapidly, and
all hope of his recovery has been abandoned.
Of the two persons arrested just after the ex-
| ploslon, as they were hurrying away from West
minister, the man is middle aged, somewhat
above medium height, and describes himself
Canadian seafarer and part owner of a vessel.
1t is generally supposed that the explosive
conveyed into the Parliament-houses and placed
| in position by women. An eyewitness of what
occurred at the Parliament houses Immediately
after the first explosion took place, says he en-
tered Westminster Hall and lent his assistance
in removing the wounded. He says he found
three constabes prostrated upon the stairs lead
| ing down into the crypt under the hall, all of
whom were seriously injured. Near by gen.
| tleman was lying stretched upon the ground,
completely prostrated. The hat of the gentle
man and portions of his clothing were torn to
ribbons and he himself had received severe in
juries.
| The locality of the explosion in the House of
| Commons is always in deep shadow, being di-
| rectly under the gallery. The person who &C.
posted the dynamite was thus much less likely
to attract notice than in almost any other part
| of the house woman who was visiting West
minister Hall at the time says she was descend
ing the stairs leading to the crypt when she saw
what appeared to be a burned dress; volumes of
smoke were issuing from the burning article.
| She then saw constable pick up the article and
| Immediately throw it from him. AS soon as the
thing struck the grouud it exploded with a
| frightful report.
The Pail Mall Gazette summarizes its account
| of the explosion in the House Of Commons in the
| following language: '"The whole interior of the
| House of Commons presents a remarkable scene
of devastation. Although there is great litter,
everything may be put right within weeks
time. Nothing is more surprising about the
whole dastardly outrage than it's utter failure to
effect any substantial injury"
/ The Canadian arrested on suspicion of COM
| plicity in the perpetration of the crime has
proved his innocence and been freed from Gus
| tody.
Police constabes Cole and Cox, who were so
seriously injured by the explosion in Westmin-
,ster Hail. are still unconscious and their recov-
Berry is considered absolutely hopeless.
| Wherever men copgregate, at the clubs, coffee
| houses hotels, the street, at home-every-
| where-the one topic of conversation through
| out London, throughout the United Kingdom,
| this evening has been this last instance of the
| dynamiter rs devilish work.
/ Remarkable force was shown by the explosion
in Westminster Hall. sIts force was downward
and holes were made in the ground large enough
to hold man. Into one OF the holes, so formed,
Constable Cox was violently thrown, and from
it was cxtricated in bruised and battered con-
dltion. Two other policemen, near the scene of
the explosion, were not 80 seriously hurt, but
they were thoroughly stunned by the concus
sion. Further inspection of the locality of the
explosion, in the House of Commons, shows
that the flooring was driven clear through to
the basement The floors through the building
| are Uttered with the debris of broken chande-
iers, glass and other objects of fragile nature.
| The gas fixtures were wrecked, and it was inn
possible for Colonel Magendia, chief of the de-
| partment of explosives. to continue his invest
cations for lack Of proper illumination. The