Show DYNAMITE DEVILTRY I A Daring Attempt to Blow Up the English Admiralty Office Complete Wreck of the Assistant Secre tarys Itoom Gun Cotton or Dynamite Supposed to be the Agent Employed An Alarm in London LONDON April 23At 11 oclock this morning an explosion occurred in the basement of the Admiralty building The building was badly damaged and many persons injured among them some head officials of the department The explosion was undoubtedly caused by gun cotton or dynamite GREAT EXCITEMENT Is caused in the Admiralty office by the explosion The firemen and police were promptly summoned and all gates of the Admiralty building are closed Special guards were at once posted and no person allowed to enter or depart from the premI ises until a thorough examination could be made It is supposed that the explosion I explo-sion was caused by the IRE UTURl DISCHARGE OF A PROJECTILE Which had been sent to the Admiralty for examination W LONDON April 23lhe explosion badly damaged the room in which it occurred and set it on fire The officials and firemen fire-men soon extinguished the flames Cabinet Cab-inet Ministers were immediately informed by telegraph of the explosion and furnished fur-nished with all the facts in connection therewith ascertainable at the time At first it was reported an explosion caused by dynamite and that it was the outcome of a plot hatched up by EITHER DYNAMITERS OR NIHILISTS For the purpose of hampering the war preparations of the government An inspector in-spector after a cursory examination expressed ex-pressed doubt as to whether the explosion was caused by gas gunpowder or dynamite dyna-mite The explosion occurred in the Secre tarys department Mr Edward Swain son AssistantSecretary received a severe scalp wound It is said other officials are also injured but none seriously It is now believed that the explosion was not accidental but CAUSED BY DYNAMITE It is now regarded as certain that either gun cotton or dynamite was used to cause the explosion The room in which the explosion took place was made a complete wreck The adjacent corridors are very much damaged while all windows win-dows fronting on the Horse Guards parade par-ade were blown out No arrests have been made up to this hour l LONDON April 3lt is supposed l that the explosive was thrown over a wall iu the rear of the Admiralty building and Facing the Horse Guards parade The explosion occurred close to but not in Swainsons room as stated in the earlier reports The staircase leading to the board room which is located in the southwest I south-west corner of the building was demol shed The iron railing of the staircase was wrenched from its fastenings anil he windows within fifty yards of the spot where the explosion took place were I noken TWO MEN WERE NOTICED By several persons reconnoitering yesterday yester-day and this morning The same men were seen to enter the garden in front of Swainsons house from the direction of he Horse Guards parade ground ONE OF THEM VRRIHD A TIN CAN Which he placed in the recess of the passageway leading to the offices TUG movements of the two men attracted but little attention at the time owing to the act that several surveyors and a number of workmen had recently been engaged in measuring distances etc on the grounds and those who saw the two men believed them employed by the government govern-ment engaged in the same work Two fficials of the government took such notice of the men that they claim they can identify them even if placed in a crowd with other men LONDON April 23The police hold now to the theory that the explosion was due to personal malice directed at Mr swainson who was personally disliked by a large number of employes |