MORE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS AT THE WEST END. Full Particulars. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) London, June 6.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 60, 26 July 1884, Page 6

MORE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. TERRIFIC EXPLOSIONS AT THE WEST END. Full Particulars. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) London, June 6.

Ax outrage as fiendish in its intention as if. was distorted in its cruel effects on weak inoffensive person.?, many of them women, was perpetrated in London last Friday evening (May 30). Like other attempts of a similar dastardly nature, the scheme was of a compound character. Almost simultaneously, at 18 minutes past. 9 o'clock, three terrible explosions occuried, two in St. James's Square and the other at Scotland Yard, the head-quartersof the detective police. In the first case the object was to destroy or damage the Junior Carlton Club, u iich fronts Pall Mall. An explosive substance appears to have dropped down the area, and this exploded with teniflc force. Almost immediately afterwards this was followed by another and still louder explosion in close proximity, though apparently nearer the corner of George-street. Is'eai ly the whole of the Urge windows on the ground floor of the Junior Carlton Club, with many of the upper ones facing the square, were broken by the force of the explosion, and the pavement and road were thickly bestrewn with fragments. The doors and windows of the kitchens were blown to atoms, and some six feet of the footway, under which there were vaults, was blow n up. Adair House, in which the staff of the Intelligence Department of the War Office is located, and which adjoins fie Junior Cailton Club, and occupies the | corner site of St. James's Square, George street, and Pall Mall, also suffered. The lower -windows fronting the square and George-street were mostly blown out entirely, and the glass of the upper windows was broken. On the opposite side of Georgestreet the premises, of the Army and Navy Club sustained considerable damage to its windows, though the structure was«uniniured. No damage whatever seems to have been done to those portions of the Junior Carlton and Army and Navy Clubs which front Pall Mall ; but the windows of Sir Watkin Williams Wynns house in St. James's Square were shattered. Very few persons were in St. James's Square or George-etreet at the moment of the explosions, and this accounts for the fact that no serious injuries from the falling of the shattered glass are reported. An officer who was leaving the club to cross the road or square sustaf^d a severe cut upon his hand, and several of the servants at the Junior Carlton were hurt, and taken to Hospital.! Two men servants of Sir Watkin Wynn wore also injured. Both of them heard the report of the first explosion, and came to the door of Sir Watkins house, No. 18, St. James's Square. They had no sooner done so than the second explosion occurred, injuring them both. At Scotland Yard.

The explosion in Great Scotland Yard occurred almost if not quite simultaneously with the others, In the centre of the yard, Jooking from Whitehall, is a detached pile

( of buildings u&cd as tho Oetoctivo Dopartinout, and the oilico for issuing licenses to hackney carriages. On tho right of this are the police quarters, and on the left is a range of stables, with stores for clothing ovor them, and in the rear the Rising Sun, kept by Mr Duncan — a tavern frequented by persons having business in tho neighbourhood and in" Scotland Yard. At the north-east corner of the detached buildings is a public convenience, and tor some time this has been under obsenalion by the ; police, and on Friday night an ollicer "was on duty as usual. At the timo mentioned the occupants of the tavern, which included a cabman and coachman whose vehicles ■ w ero at the door, heard a report, at first a ' slight hissing noise, and then another one [ like the firing of a park of artillery in their midst, and in au instant all tho lights in , the tavern wore extinguished, and the large plate-glass -windows were shattered into thousands of pieces. For some seconds they were stunned by tho explosion and the noise caused by tho falling of immense quantities of biickwork from the end of tho police building opposite. Rushing into the road, they found the cab partially covered by a heap of bucks, and tho horse struggling to extricato itself from the ruin-. Close by was a horse and brougham, and that, too, was nearly covered with bricks and rubbi&li. Several men ■who had been drinking in the Rising Sun -weis groaning and

Writhing from tho Injuries They Had Roceivecl ; whilst, {.ho inmates of the tavern, who had been cut and injured moie or less by broken glass, were in the darkness screaming loudly for help. Tlio greatest consternation prevailed, and it was many minutes before anything like order could bo restored. Happily, although tho gi eatost fears w ere at rlrst entertained that number? of persons had been injiucd, it was found that but a com pavatively tew had sustained anything beyond lacerations and contusions. The horses extricated fiom tho lubbish -were crushed and terribly frightened, and one of them is hkcly to loose the sight of an eye. On examination it was found that the urinal had been completely deployed, and that most of tho end cf the sonco building had been blown down. There is a gap forming a kind of arch, in height fully 20 feet, and in breadth \o feet, and exposing the iloors and their iron bindings to view. Across the loadway is lying the displaced •wall, a huge heap of brickwork. The entiic roadway was inches deep in broken glass, ivluch glittered and sparkled in the moonlight. It is evident that a paicel of dynamite and n detonator weic conveyed into tho public convenience, and lett theie, and that it \va; frem that structure, fixed securely to the as all of the building, tho CKplo-ion came with its disa^tiou" results. The miscreant must have approached either from JSTorthumberland-strcet or Whitehall Place, and have -watched the movements of Clarke, the policeman on duty, before he deposited his deadly charge. Clarke- was attended to by Dr. Urwick at Westminster Hospital, and when bi ought in was in such a state of collapse tliat stimulants had to be administered to him. Fortunately there were no occupants in the police building at the time, or their lives must have been sacriiiced. It is believed that the miscreant designed to destroy the men who have been engaged of late in unravelling the dynamite conspiracy in London, and to whose efforts Dr. Gallagher and tho others now in penal servitude have been brought to justice.

Attempt to Destroy the Nelson Columr While all this excitement was going on, some boys u hile passing near to the Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square, noticed a carpet bag reclining against the base of the pedestal, and a crowd collected. The bag, ■v\ith its contents, weie immediately removed to Scotland Yaid, and this, oJ course, did not tend to allay the consternation that pi e\ ailed. In the bag were found seventeen and a half cakce of uhat id believed to be dynamite, and a double fu;e, having attached to it another cake of the same deadly explosive. The cakes w ere w rapped in paper, and v. ere about four inches in length and two in breadth. Experts who have examined the explosive, and know the strength and solidity of the gieat memoiial, doubt "whether it would have suffered much. It certainly, they confidently a^seit, would have collapsed, but it is very probable thai splinters and fragments of the massive pedestal would have been scattered about the square, wounding and even killing many who might have been unfortunate enough to be ■within range. The discovery of the dynamite at the ba^c of the Nelsor. column Mas not the only find of unexplodec mateiial made in the coui.-e of the night, fi considerable quantify being also found ir. Scotland Yard, lying against the stables.

Supposed Clue to the Criminals, A cabman w ho w as on the rank at the reai of the Junior Carlton states that he saw o man of short stature, and carrying a light coat on his aim, bend down jn.st outride the club, and .strike what he took to be a fu-ce, as if for the purpose of lighting his pipe. The man at once ran away, and immediately after aloud concussion shook the neighbourhood, a flash of light wa> c seen, heavy masses of sulphurous.^moke iillcd the air, and theic was the noi^.c all round of shattered and falling glass. The horses in the cabs became restive and frightened, find it was with dilliculty that the animals were restricted from bolting. This prevented the man from following up tlio scoundrel, who rapidly ran round the opening by the Intelligence Department of the "War Office into Pall Mall, where Ire disappeared without leaving the slightest clue behind him. I Another report states that a man was seen I to drive oil in a cab, the number of which was taken down by the Hon. llupert Carington, M.P. It is also stated that just after the explosion two men were seen walking rapidly away— one from Scotland Yard and the other down Pall Mall. As regards these men, there docs not appear to bo much ground for suspicion beyond the certainly curious fact that while everybody in the neighbouring streets, especially in Pall Mall, where the loport was heard with startling clearness, hastened in the direction of the explosion, the mysterious individual in question was seen walking sharply in the opposite direction towards St. James's-street. The suspicions entertained of the Scotland Yard stranger — however, have assumed more tangible form, the police, it is said, having been furnished with descriptions of this man by two persons, one of whom saw him enter the urinal with a parcel of some kind in his hand, and leave it very quickly emptyhanded. As regards the plot itself, the official theory now is that however many scoundrels were engaged in its inception, its execution was carried out by noi more than two men, one of whom placed the explosives at the base of the Nelson column, and afterwards at Scotland Yard, while the other simultaneously deposited the infernal machino in the area of the Junior Carlton Club and Sir W. Williams Wynns mansion. The work was undoubtedly well arranged and skilfully carried out, and it has been conclusively established by the evidence of scores oi witnesses that the explosions occurred to all intents and purposes simultaneously between a quarter and twenty minutes past nine. Fortunately, the fuse attached to the dynamite placed against the Nelson column missed/ire,owingtosomefaultin its construe-

lion. With reforenco to tho man seen hurrying along Pall Mall in tho direction opposite to that in which everyone else was rushing,it is stated that fromsomosuspicion aroused by his movoraonts two porsons sowed him with a view of handing him over to the police, but four men suddenly made their appearance from a dark corner and released him, tho party then making off hurriedly.

Tho Scono at Daylight. Tho advent of daylight moro clearly revealed the extent of the damage done by the explosions, both in Scotland Yard and in St. Jmnes's Square. It at once rendored manifest tho fact that the eocond bomb must havo exploded against the residence ofSirWafckin Williams Wynn, M.P., adjoining tho Half-pay Department connected with the War Ollico. Tho iron railings at one point clearly showed signs of having been struck by tho bomb, which liually lodged against the stonework beneath ono of the iirst-floor windows. Thore was a huge- white frcicturo in tho stono, iricgular in shape, but fully four feet by three in dimensions. All the windows in the house are shattered, especially those on thcgiound iloor, and much damage, it is understood, has been dono to tho furniture. Tho havoc in the basemont is especially great. Not an atom of sound glass remains, and tho wood pannclling of ono of the doors has even been blow n away. The ground in front of the house, as well as tho Half-pay Department and the Duke of Clc\ eland's residence, is thickly strewed with powdeied glass, which picsents all tho appoarances peculiar to that produced by tho effects of dynamite when oxploded. When the bomb was thrown into tho basement at tho back of the Junior Carlton Club, facing the square, the door of tho small reception room just above the kitchen was open. The fire from tho bomb shot into the room was distinctly seen in the entrance hall by ono of the attendants. Immediately afterwards the loom was filled with smoke, which seomed to be strongly impregnated with the smell of gunpowder. As at Sir Williams Wynns house, &o hero, the damage in the basement is very great, and even in the cellar some bottles of wine were broken. Tho Club, ib is stated, will be closed for several days. In the neighbourhood of Scotland Yard nil the hoiT-cfe have more or less suffered. Colonel Ford says that, with the quantity of exploshcs deposited, it is a marvel that greater damage was not dono, and if it had all exploded it was impossible to surmise what the ellect really w ould have been. As it it, eighteen cases of dynamite ha\e been ■secured by the police, but tho experts have not yet made a t-cicntiiic examination of them to ascertain how it was they did not explode. This, however, will bo dono in due course, and in the meantiiro it is stated that the dynamite was of the "Atlas" manufacture, and of precisely the .same make as that used in tho recent outrages at the Paddington, Charing Cross, and other metropolitan railway stations. Altogether somo 300 squares ot glass have been broken in Scotland Yaid, and the immense force of the explosion may bo judged in many ways. Ju.st outside the urinal was fixed a large iron screen, and this has been blown across the yard and against the stable opposite, a distance of twenty or thii ty feet, where it lay tw isted into all manner ot shape?. The iron axle of a brougham, which was near the scene, was bent nearly double, and the body of another carriage which was standing clo^o by has been smashed.

Official Inspection. Colonel Majendic, chief inspector of explosives in connection u ith the Home CMh'ce, made a careful examination yesterday 0/ the precise locale of the two explosions in St, JaniCi's Square, and also of the wreckage, which had been left undisturbed for Ms inspection. His repoit will be presented to the Home Secretary, and until after this is done no details can be communicated for publication ; but there i^ reason to believe that the inspector has come to the conclusion that both explosions have been caused by tome compound of nitro-glyeeiinc— most probably dynamite. ! The local appeal an ccs are found to be piactically the same as in the case of the Underground Itailway explosions, and that which occurred at the olttces of the Local Government Board. No traces were found of anything in uhich the dynamite may have been enclosed, nor indeed was any discovery of tins kind expected, us it is believed that in the present .series of explosions no appliances w ere u>sed beyond a simple short-time fuse, just long enough to allow the cowardly v retches time to make their own escape unhurt, which, unfortunately, they succeeded in doing. With reference to the explosion at the club house, it should beadded that at the foot of thcilight of steps leading to the kitchen and cellar* there was a second iron gate, which is only unlocked when the bell is rung, so that the outrage-mongers could only get to tho giound level by climbing over this gate, and in that they uould doubtless have been observed. It is therefoie assumed that the evil-disposed stranger, if only ono man carried out this paifc of the plot, must have either concealed himself near the top of thcfctcps w ithin the upper gateway, or leaned over the railings from the street and dropped the dynamite into the area. The police authorities have satisfied themselves that this was possible, as a string let straight dortn from the pavement would just touch the hole left in the area by 'the down ward force of the explosion. The report of the explosions was so loud that it is said to have been heard as far as Chelsea and even Brixton. In the more immediate neighbourhood of "Clubland " there was extreme alarm, and many members of the Carlton, Reform, and other clubs hurried out to inquire what was wrong. At the National Liberal Club at Charing Cross the whole building seemed to be shaken by tho forco of the explosions, and it was the almost immediate inference that a dynamite explosion had taken place, as in the neighbourhood of Westminster people may now almost be said to have become painfully accustomed to such events.