DARING DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. EXPLOSIONS IN LONDON. Attempt on the Nelson Monument.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1858, 3 June 1884, Page 3

DARING DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. EXPLOSIONS IN LONDON. Attempt on the Nelson Monument.

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[kkl nut's c vm.i:ut \m.J London, May 30. A REitions dynamite outrage was perpetrated tins evening in St. James' Square, Pall Mall. The f.icts, as ascertained, show that thiee. se|,ar<ite explosions occurred almost simultaneously on different sides of the square, causing considerable damage to several buildings in the neighbourhood. Those that sufFejed most were the houses occupied by the Army and N.ny Club and the Junior Carlton Club, 'the windows of botli buildings being .shattered to atoms. So far as is as present known no one has been iniurcd.

Midnight. Another outrage uas committed at a late hour this evening at Scotland Yard, Whitehall, where a violent explosion of dynamite took place, causing faeiious dan. age to the building, and injiuies of a more or less severe diameter to several persons in the neighbourhood of the explosion.

May 31 (morning). Further particulars which ha\e now been obtained regarding the dynamito outi ages of last night show that by the explosion in Bt. James's Squaie tlic kitchen of the Junior Cailton Club was completely wiecked, and that sc\cn ef the club sci \. ints were seveiely injuicd, though none fatally. It has also been ascertained that the explosion in Scotland Yaid caused immense danngc to the building occupied by the Official Cnmiual Investigation Department, and other premises in the neighbouihood. Tho dynamite h.ul been deposited in a urinal. Four parsons have been injured— one of them, a constable, ve.-y se\ orely. Later intelligence has now been received showing that another ou tinge was nt'.irly perpetiated last evening in Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, wlieio there was discovered deposited at the base of the Nelson Column sixteen cakes^of dynamite, with a fuse attached. The discovery wos fortunately made in time to prevent an explosion, which, had it occurred, would have destroyed tho column. Tho news of List night' j occurrences hascaused great con-stei nation throughout the metropolis. The explosion, and the attempt in Tiafalgar 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 peipetiatois. A Pi ess Absociation message says . — The firstexplosion took placeat the Junior Carlton Club in Pall Mall, where an infernal machine was diopped down the area, and the explosion wrecked all the lower pait of the piemises. A second explosion followed soon after, and injured the Army and Navy Club-house, the War Intelligence Office, and Sir Watkin Wynne's house. The clubs w ere crowded at the time, and great excitement prevailed. A third explosion completoly wrecked the Detective Office in Scotland Yard, and fatally injured one of the constab'es 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 tho Nelson column, and extinguished the fuse in time to prevent another explosion. [Received June 2, 11.3 a.m.] London, June 1. There is still no clue to the recent dynamite outrages.