DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. THREE SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS, ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE NELSON COLUMN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 3

DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. THREE SIMULTANEOUS EXPLOSIONS, ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE NELSON COLUMN.

London, May 30. A serious dynamite outrage was perpetrated this evening in St. James'b Square, Pall Mall. The facts, as ascertained, show that three separate explosions occurred almost simultaneously on different sides of the square, causing considerable damage to Beveral buildings in the neighbourhood. Those that suffered most weio the houses occupied by the Army and Navy Club and the Junior Carlton Club, the windows of both buildings being shattered to atoms. So far as is at present known, no one has been injured.

Midnight. Another outrage was committed at a late hour this evening in Scotland Yard, Whitehall, where a violent explosion of dynamite took place, causing serious damage to tho building, and injuries of a more or less severe character to several persons in the neighbourhood of the explosion.

May 31 (morning). Further particulars which have now been obtained regarding the dynamite outrages of last night show that by"the" the explosion in St. James's Square the kitchen of the Junior Carlton Club was completely wrecked, and that seven of the club servants were severely injured, though none fatally. It has also been ascertained that the explosion in Scotland Yard caused immense damage to the building occupied by the Official Criminal Investigation Department, and other premises in the neighbourhood. The dynamite had been deposited in a urinal. Four persons have been injured — one of them, a constable, very severely. Later intelligence has now been received showing that another outrage was nearly perpetrated lasteveninginTrafalgarSquare, Charing Cross, where there was discovered deposited at the base of the Nelson C«lumn sixteen cakes of dynamite, with a fuse attached. The discovery was fortunately made in time to prevent an explosion, which, had it occurred, would have destroyed the column. The news of last night's occurrences has caused great consternation throughout the metropolis. The explosions, and the attempt in Trafalgar Square, were, there is no doubt, the outcome of an organised plot, but, so far as is known, no clue has yet been obtained to the perpetrators.

\ Later Particulars. The first explosion took place at the Junior Carlton Club in Pall Mall, where an infernal machine was dropped down the area, and the explosion wrecked aU the lower part of the premises A second explosion followed soon a.fter, and injured the Army and Navy Club-house, the War Intelligence Office, and Sir Watkin Wynne's House. The clubs were crowded at the tfme, and great excitement prevailed. A third explosion completely wrecked the Detective Office in Scotland Yard, and fatally injured one of the constables on duty. Altogether twelve persons were injured. The explosions followed in quick succession, A constable found a parcel of dynamite, with a lighted fuse attached, at the foot of the Nelson column, and extinguished the fire in time to prevent another explosion.

London, Juno 1. There is still no clue to the perpetrators o! thi recent dynamite outrages.