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Scene at Wall Street Front of Morgan's Office
a Few Minutes After the Terrific Explosion
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920.
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TROOPS PLACED ON GUARD
IN THE BANKING DISTRICT
Employees in Offices in Neighbor- Tremendous Crowds Impede the
Ambulances Buildings Riddled
as if Subjected to Gunfire Hos
pital Reception Rooms Like Dress
ing Station on a Battlefield.
GRAPHIC STORY BY GIRL
OF TERRORS OF EXPLOSION
Dead and Injured
AND THE SCENES. OF DEATH
r
Miss Ella Parry, in Office Opposite
Morgan CBk Co., Narrowly Escapes
2 X111UX y cuiu. linio m vvuu x'xitiiLi
to the v Street
Mlsa Ella Parry, twenty-two years old, of No. 160 East B5th Btrwit, a
stenographer with A. Uolln ir Co., No. 36 Wall Street. almost dtreotly op
posite the ofllco of Morgan & Co., gave a vivid account of hor experience,
she narrpwly escaped lelnK cut by glass or caught In tho fall of. plaster
In her oUko.
"1 had Juwt left ray dsk," who paid, "and waa waahlni? my hands, when
1 heard tho explosion. Tim slaws of our windows foil Into tho ofllce and
uie celling fell all about tin. Whore I had Juat boon Bitting wna cov
- red with heavy plaKtor. I did not wait to get my hat, but with othurs
nishwl into tho atroet.
'It wa thH mom awful Round f had ever heard and I was turror
Mrlcken. All the women In the building, and the men, too, wont milting for
he door and I was pretty well In the lend. The glrln wnro screaming, in
uiror and I was among them. When we got to the door policemen wore
.here and they made tin stay back. . I looked down into tho Btreet nnd eaw
i lie reason. AVhat 1 Haw was awful.
"Thure were not Iobh than a dozen dead parson on theHldewal! tu
i ront of our building and tho Sub-Treasury. Home of thorn had their faces
lmot conipMely blown off, ami tbolr clothing had either been blown
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LIST OF DEAD.
JACOBS, mVIKO D., curt)
broker, No. SO Broad.
JOTCH "WTUjIAat olertc In ae
ourttten department J. P. Atorgan
& Co,
UNIDENTIFIED HOY. about
10, B feet 6, brown hair and oyei,
clothing blown from body; Old
81rp Pollco Btatlon.
UNIDENTI FIED WOMAN,
about 66, gray hair, blue eyea,
black waist, black aklrt, black,
laco nhoas, block Atocklngi, small
solitaire diamond ring on loft
hand.
UNIDENTIFIED, ArPAIt
ENTJjY JKWIHU MAN. about
, 48, 5 font 10. dark hair, brown
eyos, dork mitt.
THilNJuiip.
AinaJCANDIffH, WHiLJAM, No."
110 Convent Avomio, Jlronir, lao
firatlojiH of .hands and lrsj New
York DtHponnary,
ANDHItBON, AIITJIUU, No. (3
Ntwk Jtond, Jrrooklyn, Inooratlon
of huod, OM flip I'olloo Station,
ANDKEWH, MAItQAHHT, No.
1131 Hire Avunue, Jliunx; laoam
tions of urma and handvi Volun
teur Hospital,
AHULY, ANTJIONV, No. 1141
looatur Avenue, Ilronxi laooratwl
body! Uroad Wn Howpltal.
JtAKIl, .TOHKIlit, No. 14 Mar
jtjIh Avenue, Irvlntfton, N, V,,
Uceretions of iinTIi Old Hllp ln
linn Station.
HAOLI'JY. HhDItUXlE, Wuah-
"WAY DOWN KAUT
Vn nK m ft, ittii si. lt'Hn.Xt.
lngton. D. G; Voluntoor IloaplUil.
unniorAJN. JOBBPII, no od
drons;, TtroiLd Street Hospital.
BISHOP, MARY, No. 1040 Park
Place, Hrooklyn; cutn on face,
hands and lefl; Volunteer Hospi
tal. nOOK, TOED, No. 821 Eart 79th
Stroot, Voluntoor Hospital.
IJODOIjSICY, No. MA Doat USSd
.Street, lacerations of head; Old
Blip Polloo ,3tatlon.
BOND. JACK, No, mWertlllth
Street; head and handn out; Vol
unteer noopltal.
HOWlXtAN, VrniULAM, No.
iSouth Street, shook. Uroad fltreet
IIonpltaL
DROWN, GEO ROE HOWARD,
No. 187 Eaot 70th Btreot; face,
head, arms and body Injured;
Volunteer UcwpltaJ,
ffTlTONO, OUARLEH, no ad
drtyuu; Volunteer IlowptUl.
IILTRLIIURO, JOHN, LVo. 18(1
Eat 64th Htroet, lacerated neck
and hoad; Hrood Stroet Hospital.
ctAB5nii, jAanaa w., No. boo
East 167th Btreet, luaurated head.
Uroad Htroet Hospital.
CHILD, O, II., No. 110 Wt th
Btreet, fraolurM right arm;
Uroad fltreot Hoiipltal.
CIIUilON, AJUX, Volunter
noKpltal.
OONOORH, MMMMTT, No. U87
Dedford avenue, Jlrooklyn; Uroad
Btreet Hopjdtal.
CONWAY, JOHN V No. 460
Qreenwood Avenue, Klohmond
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hood of the Explosion Say That
Some of the Buildings Rocked as
If From an Earthquake U. S.
Troops Guard U. S. Sub-Treasury.
A mysterious explosion In Wall Street, near the comer of Broad,
the' financial heart of New York at noon to-day killed nineteen or more
people according to the latest police reports, injured probably 200,
partlcally wrecked the J. P. Morgan banking- Iwuse, the SubTreasary
and the (Assay Office and caused property' damage estimated at 15 1,
000,000.
Experts arc in controversy over the cause of the explosion. Police
investigators are of the opinion that the damage was done by an In
fernal machine in a closed truck drawn by one horse which was abandoned
at the curb in front of the Assay Office, shortly before 12 o'clock and
that a timing apparatus set off a quantity of high explosive at the stroke
of noou The horse was blown to pieces, but no trace had been found
of the body of the driver. v
Department of Justice expert are of the opinion that no tnanufac
tured'slngle bomb could cause the damage which was done. They adhere
to the theory that a truck loaded with explosives blew up as it was passing
through Wall Street and was midway between the Morgan banking house
and the Assay Office. The explosion, they believe, was the direct result
of a collision between the explosives truck and an automobile.
Witnesses have been found who claim to have seen a truck marked
"EXPLOSIVES" near the scene of the explosion shortly before noon.
There are also witnesses who claim to have seen a flash In an automobile
standing at the curb near the 'Morgan Dank, which flash was Immediately
followed by the explosion.
FIND DEBRIS THAT SUPPORTS BOMB THEORY.
In support of the theory that the explosion came from a time bomb,
experts point to pieces of springs, window sash weights and pieces of
slieet metal found on the street near the remains of the horse.
One man, William Joyce, a clerk was killed In the banking house of
J. P. Morgan & Co. J. P. Morgan is in Europe, His son, Junius Morgan,
the only member of the firm who was on the ground floor of the build
ing was showered with broken glass, but claims to have escaped Injury.
Other members of the firm were in consultation in a room on the second
floor, which Is on the Broad Street side of the building remote from the
scene of the explosion.
The theory that the explosion was caused by a bomb Iiisin automobile
which was either moving slowly eastward or standing at the curb in front
of the Morganbank Is buhvarlced by the testimony of at least two wit
nesses who da! mto have seen the flash in the car.
Figuring prominently In the ifcddont or In tho roporti of tho
alleged eje-nltnesseti is an automobile owned by J). S. Helden, who
owns a drug store In Newark. Tho car wiut domolUhed nnd tho chauf
feur, Jem mo II, MoKenn, Has blown to plow. Itelilen nas In an of
flee at So. M Wall Strict at (ho lime of t ho explnnlon nnd laid he left
his cur at tho curb u few minutes bei'oro uud (horn norn no cxjlnslvoi
In It.
.MAYOR WILL URGE REWARD OF f 10,000.
Mayor Hylan afler a visit to the scene of the explosion sakl at the
City Hall that he will ask the Hoard of Estimate to-morrow to offer a
reward of 810,000 for Information which may lead to discovery of a plot
if (here was a plot. Tlw city olltelals are of the opinion that an explo
slon at noon In the street bet-ween the Morgan ollice and the Sub-Treasury
Is a subject worthy of careful Investigation,
i 'Practically all the exyjoslves used in building operations In New
MARBLE, COAL OPERATOR,
CONVINCED THAT EXPLOSION
WAS WORK OF BOLSHEVISTS
John Markle of the Hotel Plaza, the noted anthracite
mining operator, was seen at the St Vincent Hospital,
whither he went with his mining engineer, A. B. Jcssup,
both having been cut by glass.
"Wo were in Mr. Morgan's private off ice,' said Mr.
Markle, talking with Mr. Junius Morgan and Mr. Joyce,
one of the partners of the house, when the explosion oc
curred. After the roar of the explosion, glass fell in a
shower all over those in the office and outside clerhs were
toppled from their seats to the floor, all of them being cut
by the glass or otherwise hurt
"Mr. Morgan did not seem to be hurt, but Mr. Joyce
was badly cut.
"Both Mr. Jessup and I are technical men and we say
positively that the centre of the explosion was an automo
bile in front of the office on the Wall Street side. I don't
know what else went up, but the origin of the blowup was
the automobile. And there is no question in my mind that
it was the work of Bolshevists."
HiraqDavis of Bayville, L. I., a chauffeur, says the
explosion occurred in an automobile which was cither
standing in front of the Morgan bank or moving slowly
eastward. He f the chauffeur for Winslow S. Pierce and
was standing near his car in front of No. 40WaIl Street,
waiting for his employer.
"I was looking at the automobile," said Davis. "I saw
a flash, immediately followed by a terrific explosion. I am
sure a bomb exploded in the car."
York are furnished by the E. I. Du Pont, Nemours Company. The firm
reports that none of its wagons was in the vicinity of Broad and Wall
Streets at the time of the explosion. Pieces of the truck found at a con
siderable distance from the scene of the explosion are said by men em
ployed on the excavation for the Stock Exchange annex to resemble
wreckage such as "wouW come from the type of truck which convey
explosives.
Mayor Hylan, Police Commissioner Enright and his deputies, As
sistant District Attorneys Talley and Joyce and agents of the Depart
ment of Justice hurried to the scene soon after the explosion. They
were greatly Interested in the story of Hiram Davis, a chauffeur, vho
claims the explosion occurred in an automobile in front of the Morgan
building ,
As against this Is a hole in the street In front of the Assay Office.
This hole was not there prior to the explosion and It is close to, the re
mains of the Iwrse which, some witnesses say,' was drawing the truck in
winch the explosion occurred.
lletwuen tho United SUtw Sub Troasury andjfJt Assay Offioa to tts
uat a temporary utructuro waa erected recently, Thl has been used to
hUld the tranufsr of $1)00,000,000 in sold ami bullion to tho Assay Off Its
far tfftto-keoDlnK duruu; structural change la tho Treasury, Bull dine. Tha
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