The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-01-25

giving no directions as to destination.
| They had not gone far when the ex-
| plosiOn happened. The cabman hear
ing this, stopped the cab, when the man
and woman at once leaped out and
fastened quickly from the spot. The
cabinen went in pursuit of the run
| Always, who were soon oVertaken and
arrested by the police.
40 p.m.-The investigation so far
made leads to the conclusion that the
! explosives used i'll The attack on the
tower were handled by persons who
/ gained access TO the structure as sight
/ Seers. The ruins also show the ex-
! plOsiVeS operated from q point some
! where on the inner bastien, or in the
| esplanade nearest the Thames tower. 1t
! turns out that the police were unusually
prompt and successful in placing their
embargo upon all egress from the tower
grounds. But few persons had left
when the embargo was ordered. Extra
/ quarts have been posted about the
! walls. Every person within them Will
! be subjected to a personal examination.
The report made by the tower explosion
was terrific. TWAS heard for miles up
and down the thames, and az once at
| tracted an immense crowd to the scene.
The prevalent belief is that the de-
| StructiVe agent vas conveyed into the
House of Commons by some of the
Saturday visitors. - l'0Her inyestiga-
ton shows the extent Of the damage
was much greater than at first sup
| posed. The western extremity of the
House is total wreck. There is now
no doubt but the explosive was placed
under the Peers gallery on the govern
ment side of the House. All the wood
work in that part OF the building was
shattered, and wide hole was made
through the tile floor. The gallery was
displaced, and even the solid stone
work of the door-ways was either pull
verified or shifted from position. Every
pane of glass in the House was smashed
TO atoms. The gallery benches were
overturned and broken, and the gallery
was generally dismantled.
Later reports show the first stories
| about the damage to the White Tower
were somewhat exaggerated. The White
Tower building was not destroyed. 1t is
now said the structure was not very
seriously injured. These later reports
tended somewhat to allay the public eS-
element. If the explosion had really
demolished the White Tower the result
must have been immensely more seri-
ous.f for part of the building is used as an
a-mory at present for the storage of
rifles and often of large quantities of
ammunition. This fact makes the
popular indignation against the perpe-
traitors of the outrage indescribable.
A large number of children were among
| the visitors. Many of these little ones
had their faces and hands badly torn by
| broken glass and flying splinters The
| most piteous sight in the large crowd of
innocent prisoners tempOrarlI y detained
within the towers walls was afforded by
these little ones with their pale faces
and bleeding heads.
The crowd outside the walls has been
wrought up to a state of frenzy against
the perpetrators of the outrage. A lady
visiting the House of Commons at the
time of the outrage was seriously in
! jured. Immense damage was done on
the lobby. The masonry decorations
and sculpture were utterly destroyed.
The place is described as literally
blown to pieces. The shock was felt in
Pail Mall, and persons in the vicinity
| say the very earth shook.
! Sir William Vernon Harcourt, Home
Secretary, and the Marquis of
Harrington, Secretary OF State
! for War, are visiting the scene.
Another account of the explosion
says the explosion at Westminster was
more disastrous than at first anticipated.
Four persons were badly injured,
including two policemen fatally
wounded. A lady who was in the hall
spied an internal machine and called the
attention of Policeman Cole on duty at
the time TO it. Officer Cole rushed to
the spot, seized the machine, and
attempted to extinguish the fuse, but
was not quick enough. The fuse
| burned so rapidly and closed SC, quickly
upon the machine that the officer
dropped it and the explosion followed
almost immediately after. One half of
the hall was wrecked. The explosion
Commons occurred three minutes
/ later. 1t came from directly under
the strangers gallery and close to the
seat usually occupied by Bradlaugh,
when visiting the Commons. The lobby
was completely wrecked, the gallery
torn down, the Speakers chair destroyed,
| aud the massive stone-work displaced.
The glass roof of the House of Com
mons was completely shattered. The
clock in the house stopped at precisely
215 p. m. A heavy beam which formed
one of the supports to the gallery was
projected into the Speakers chair ,sseri-
ously injuring it. Gladstone's seat was
torn to pieces.
Another account of the explosion at
the tower gives the following details
The scenes in and around the tower are
Undesirable. Several children are
among the injured Their pale faces,
bloody heads and broken limbs reused
the great crowd congregated in the
vicinity to frenzy Yells are heard on
every side to Lynch the villains -
Roast the fiendsl'' All the prisoners
are still detained in the tower and will
be kept there until their antecedents are
thoroughly inquired into. Colonel
Majendie. chief inspector Of explosives
in an interview this afternoon. said the
explosion was due to nitro-glycerine
compounds precisely similar to those
used in previous outrages in this city
He believed that woman had charge Of
the explosive apparatus at Westminster
: Hall and the lobby of the House ol
Commons. 1t has been ascertained
that a large quantity of explosive
matter had been placed inside the grea
ornamental gates, leading to the
Crypt under Westminster Hall. These
? gates were blown clear off the hinges
and thrown TO the ground. All tn,
, windows on the north and south side O.
the building were blown to atoms.