The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-01-30
THE LONDON EXPLOSIONS.
Havoc Wrought by Dynamite in
the British Metropolis.
The Parliament Buildings and the
Tower Badly Damaged,

SO nearly successful and did such great
damage to life and property, that it created
unparalleled excitement throughout Great
Britain. From cable dispatches to the New
! York papers we mako up the following
graphic account of the scenes Immediately
succeeding the explosions and the damage
wrought by them:
London went wild with anger this after
noon over the most daring and disastrous at
tempt ON the public safety yet made by the dyn-
/ amlters. Three Internal machines at least,
and perhaps -four. were exploded-one in the
| houses of parliament, one or two in West
minister Hall, which adioins them, and one
in the tower of London, four miles away
down the Thames The explosions were evil
! IDENTIFY designed TO he simultaneous. They
actually occurred within a few minutes Of
each other, at about o'clock in the after
noon.
Saturday, when there is no session of Par
Lament, is the usual visiting day at the
! Houses of Parliament. As n rule there is no
crowd of visitors. There were more to-day
than usually come and the attendants recall
/ that the number Of women was unusually
large, and that many of the women carried
parcels upon which they seemed TO bestow
uncommon care The suspicion has arisen
that the seeming women were men in
I womcns clothes seeking an opportunity to
deposit Internal machines and leave them to
be fired Ivy time fuses
Mr.. Edwin Green, a civil engineer. was
visiting the houses OF parliament on sight
seeing trip with his wife and sister, who, bv
the way, are both Irish women They were
in Westminster hail. As they were about
going down the stairway leading to the
crypt, Mrs. Green saw a parcel that looked
like roll of clothing lying on one of the
stone steps. Smoke was issuing from the roll
Mrs. Green exclaimed
whats that: 1t looks like dynamtc!"
The party ran back, calling to the first
policeman they saw His name is Cole He
seized the bundle AMI ran up stairs with it,
meaning to carry it out of tn, building. Just
rs he reached the top step leading into the hall
lie dropped the bundle and it exploded The
ladies were thrown to the ground. bruised
and half stripped. They both tainted Mr.
Green was hurled dozen feet AMI dashed
violently to the stone floor. Several of his
/ ribs were broken. and his clothing was torn
to tatters. Policeman Cole was fearfuly
wounded, and anotherc1nst named Cox
who came to his assistance, was almost
equally injured.
! a large quantity Of explosive matter lad
hceg placed inside the great ornamental gates
leading TO the crypt under Westminster
Hail. Those gates were blown Off their him
yes and thrown to the ground. All the win
dows on the north and south sides of the inn
mense building We're blown to atoms. The
conclusion shook down from the grand oak
turic,. This i'll its downward movement
made such a dense cloud that the Off
GERS on guard became alarmed and dared
not enter the room. In the lobby the
splinters We're for time as thick as flakes in
a binding snowstorm They were propelled
in many cases with dangerous force. They
cut and ripped the leather from the seats and
tore out and scattered the horse hair stuilings
all over the house. \ man who happened to
be standing upon scailolding near the crypt
when the explosion occurred was knocked
forciby to the ground The great window
over the main entrance to Westminster Hail
was smashed to atoms.
Three minutes had hardly passed when an
other explosion completely demolished the
lobby of the house of commons in the para-
ment buildings adjoining and oDenin, into
Westminster hall Here the dynamite must
have been deposited under the peers gallery,
hack of the speaker's chair and to the left Of
it, Gladstone sits to the right of the speaker:
Bradlaughs favorite seat was to the left
The explosion came from under either the
peers gallery or the strangers gallery still
further to the left, and very close
to the seat usually occupied bv
Bradlaugh when he visits the
commons The lobby was completely wreck
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