, 1885-01-25
AT THE TOWER.
How the Police Corraled all the
Visitors.

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LONDON, Jan. 24-4:30 p. M.-All
persons known to have been injured in the
tower were visitors. The police, the mo-
ment they realized the nature of the e x
plosion, effectually barred all egress from
the tower and city. and are now subject
ing every person detained to a most rigid
search, upon the theory that the attack
was perpetrated by some person Or per-
IONS inside the grounds.
Surgeons were promptly summoned to
the assistance of the wounded. who are
now receiving all attention practicable.
The excitement increases as the news of
the explosion spreads. Crowds are flock
ing to the vicinity Of the damaged build
ings.
Investigation so far made leads to the
conclusion that the explosives used in the
attack on the tower were handled by per-
sons who gained access to the structure as
slghtseers. The ruins also show that the
explosives were operated from a point
somewhere on the inner bastion or IN the
esplanade nearest Thames tower. 1t turns
out that the police were unusually prompt
in placing their embargo upon all egress
from the tower grounds. But. few per-
sons had left when the embargo was or
dered. Extra guards were posted about
the walls. The report made by the tower
explosion was terrific. 1t was heard for
miles up and down the Thames, and at
once attracted an immense crowd to the
scene.
8 P. Matter reports show that the
first stories about the damage to the white
tower is somewhat exaggerated. The
white tower building is not destroyed. It
is now said the structure has not even
been seriously injured. These later re-
ports tend to somewhat allay public ex-
element If the explosion really demol-
ished the white tower the result must be
immensely more serious, for hat part of
the building is used for an armory at the
present for the storage of rifles and often
OF large quantities OF ammunition. This
fact makes popular Indignation against
the perpetrators Of the outrage indescrib-
able. A large number Of children we're
among the visitors. Many of these little
ones had their faces and hands badly torn
by the broken glass and flying ~splinters.
The most piteous sight in the large crowd
we're the innocent prisoners temporarily
detained within the towers walls, with
their pale faces and bleeding heads.
Another account Of the explosion at the
tower gives the following details: The
scenes in and around the tower were in
describable. Several children are among
the injured. Their pale faces, bloody
heads, and broken limbs reused the great
crowds congregated in the vicinity to a
frenzy. Wells are heard on every side TO
lynch the Williams" and roast the
iends." All visitors are still detained in
the tower to be kept there until their an
tecedents are thoroughly inquired into.
Col. Majendie, chief inspector of explo-
sives. in an interview this afternoon, said:
THE explosion is due to nitroglycerine
compounds, precisely similar to those
used in the previous outrages in this
CITY," He believed hat a woman had
charge Of the explosive apparatus at
Westminster hall and in the lobby of the
house of commons.
The long cloak ola woman, whose ap-
pearance was made to resemble that Of a
woman about to become a mother, was
seen among the visitors at the tower this
afternoon, shortly before the explosion
occurred. She was escorted by a tall man
with a military air. Neither of them
could be found after the gates we're closed
after the explosion and when the visitors
came to be searched the supposed woman
and escort had escaped during the rush
that occurred just after the explosion and
before the gates were closed. The i'm
potent action Of the police is generally
ridiculed.
An intense anti-Irish feeling is caused
by the outrage and it seems certain to n
favorably affect Irishmen employed or
seeking employment in England. Wig
lance committees and anti-Irish leagues
Of employers are talked of. 1t is esti-
mated that according to the course and
energy of the explosive employed in the
house of commons, hat if the house had
been in session, Gladstone, Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, Charles Bradlaugh and
200 others members would have been
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