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TROOPS
RUSHED TO GUARD SUB-TREASURY 1 N WALL ST REE
temporary gallery was Miiwhrt and unllnternd, and the enormoiw treasure
w far a material barrlrrs .were concerned wkle open lo the street.
The time of the explosion Is definitely fixed by the fact that the clock
Jfc the nub-Treasury stopped at 13.01 o'clock.
The only prominent financier Injured In the eplolon was Alvln W.
lrroi, Preeldent of tho Ktul(able Trust Co. fo was etrvak by broken
;. Blajw while sitting In his office and waa treated at the Broad Street Hos
pital.
, The explosion created more confusion In New York than even the great
Black Tom explosion. Tho business of (he whole financial district was
paralyzd for the rest of the day. The MWfttnns of tho Hlock Exchange and
Vhe'.'Giirb market were suspended. Hundreds of brokerage offlces closed,
4 1H aMItton to Buadreds at tiiewands who swartnftd to the narrow
nnpns of the financial dtKtrJot Immediately alter tho explosion others cfttno
froth all parts of the city, as news of tho disaster spread. In warch of
atilhjrcn or relatives employed In offices In the llnnnelal district, Tho
pceseure on the telephone service ivaa so great that it was almost Impoa
&)a to obtain telephone connection with brokomgo olTlcea and banks and
antlotfs persons nurrled downtown to make personal Inquiries.
The crowM was greatly augmented (by city ofllolals and county offl-
rials aud police offlolals nnd volunteer Inrestlgators. Tho District Attor
ney' ofie moved down to Wall Btreot almost, en muwe and began Issuing
statements to the press.
(Tho theory that a truckload of explosive went up in front at tho
Assay Office was strengthened late this afternoon by tho testimony of
Mpriia Whitman, a clerk la Barrtberger Brothers. No. 66 Broadway.
He w&s on JiU way to tho office after making a deposit In a bank. A
dynamite delivery wagon passed him movng 'westward In Wall Streot The
explosion occurred a fow minutes lator.
William J. Flynn, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Depart
mnt of Justice left Washington for Now York this afternoon. He will take
charge of the force whloh Is Investigating the disaster.
, Many of tho injured Will die. Bight who wore taken to the Broad Btroct
Hospital, for treatment died within three hours after tho explosion. Five
of the early victims were women. Tho terrific forco of tho explosion was
shown hy the nature of the wouryls initiated on tho dead and injured. Tho
bodies wore shockingly mangled.
i'lece of bodies were found on window sills and In orovlces of build
Jng hundreds of feet from tho sceno of tho explosion. Many of tho vic
tims suffered tho loss of limbs.
Following the explosion a cloud of smoke and dust ascended to a point
lilghor ban tho roofs of the surrounding skyscrapers. Buildings for a
radius of blocks were peppered by ploces of debris. The fronts of buildings
in tho Wall Street block between Broad and William Streets look as though
vliey had been subjected to ehellflre.
Owing to the shattered condition of tho buildings occupied by the
Sub-Treasury and the Assay Offioe, those buildings arc under the guard
of soldiers from Governor's Island with flxod bayonets.
It was reported lato this afternoon that pieces of debris flying from
-the fcxplorlon scarred tho walls of the Rqultablo Building up to tho
twentieth floor.
The Department of Justice agents In tholr opinion thnt a wagon load
.of explosives went off, are guided to amo oxUnt hy tho tilings of Frank
Francisco, an agent who has made a spoolalty of explosions. Ho said this
afternoon:
The walls of tho 8ub Treasury and In Mr. Morgan's office show great
damage. If on attempt were marie on the Morgan Institution tho destruc
tion would not have beon so powerful on tho otiher istde of tho street. All
prior explosion and attempts on life show that tho force dooa wot cover
an area of mora than ten or flftoen foot.
"In my opinion 5. would Indloate a quantity of explosives In the jnlddln
of tho street got Into a collision duo to reckless driving.
. "In all my Investigations 1 have never soon mich destruction, if an
attempt had been msdo on Mr. Morgan's office It -would have heen made
.at night, or some radical would havo eeeurod a position In the Institution
sad planted an Infernal machine Insldo the office."
Although police reserves wore ordorod to tho sceno from all over
Manhattan and from downtown Brooklyn, tho Immense crowds wero be
yond pollco control for more than an hour a(tor the explolsbn. At 2 o'clock
this afternoon a detail of soldiers from Governor's Island was ordored
to the sceno to guard the Sub-Treasury. and Aswy Offlco, tho windows or
whtoh were blown In.
Near the fragments of the dead horso Is tho wreok of an automobile
bearing the number "24,246 N. J." The automobile was close to tho truck
at the moment of the explosion. It Is bellovod tho occupants wore killed.
No traco baa been found of the body of tho driver of tho truok.
At the moment of tho explosion Wall Street and the surrounding streets
were Jammed with people. Long before tho first ambulance nrrWed the
bodies of probably ten victim had been rolnovod In automobiles, and
-scores of wounded had also been taken away.
The Broad Street Hospital resembled a drosslug stutlon In the front
lines of a battle field In Franco. Tho Volunteer Hospital was also used for
the care of the Injured and temporary reception of tho dead,
Police and Firemen Gathering the Bodies
Of Victims in Front of J. P. Morgan Office
INJURED AND DEAD I AY ALL ROUNI
ON WALL AND BROAD STREE1
Daniel F. Nugent, a lawyer of the firm of Nugent nnd Nngenl. 2S
Ison Avenue, who wwi In front of the Morgan Building at the time eff
explosion, describes the scene of tho accident as follows
"I wae Just aibout to enter the Morgan' Building when the conous
knocked me down on tho sldownlk. I was badly Munncd from tho fall
arose after I had collected my thought and sw broken glass covorln
street. All about mo men and women were lying bleeding. About
foot down Wall Street thoro wae an unto in a maw of flatmM. Aero
Mreet from it there was a ehattcrod wagon and u horso lying drad 15
cvcral men cut almost In half from the large plate gla.M which fell
the building. No one was to be seen In tho dust covered etrci ts except
victims of tho explosion. A fow momenta later as I made my way up towl
Broadway thousand of people evidently expecting another cxploslo
follow swarmed on tho street from the buildings.
ENRIGH1 ISSUES
CALL FOR FACTS
ON EXPLOSION
AM. PRHSTR ATP I
NEAR WRECK SCENE,
SAYS POLICEMAN
Lieutenant on Street Nearby Gives
First Impressions of the
Disaster.
This story of an eye-witness came
from a I.loutunant of police, who de
alined to give bis name.
"I was walking down Wnll Street
between Broadway and Broad," he
nnjd, "when, suddenly, I heard and
felt a torrlllo explosion. My next Im
pression wai of flying streams of
ticker tapo and papers from the
upper stories of buildings around mo.
I ran down to Broad Htreot and for
a moment thought the street wus deserted.
"There was not n soul standing on
GRAPHIC STORY TOLDBYGIRL
OF NARROW ESCAPE FR0W1 DEATH
(Continued from First Fage.)
from their bodlos or burned off. Somo of them had their legs blown off,
and oh I It was awful. Tho pollco throw shcots over the bodlos as fast
as they could get them and whon they had tho bodies covered they let us
out of our building.
"Tho street was then filled with hysterical and screaming girls, and the
pollco did their host to quiet thorn. Thoro was at least half a foot of glass
on tho strcot and sldowalk, and I had to bo careful In walking to Nassau
street lest I cut, my shoos.
"I havo novor aeon auoh sights. Tho front of Morgan's was blown out
It. Then, when 1 oolleoted my sonaM,.u'd tho Interior was en awful looking wreok. In front of Morgan's offlco
8aw Bt:oroa of ""i'08 ',nK 011 he was a burning automobile, tho flames Jumping high.
"Windows on ovory side had been amaahod and tho buildings them
selves looked like wrecks, tho front of thorn having been torn out. At least
that is my recollection of what I saw, for 1 lost no time In getting into
Nuusau Strcot and away from the awful sights. Ambulances seemed to
come from evorywhere, and all tho emergency wagons In the city seemed
to be there while the fire engines and trucks came in from all sides.
"When I turned my hack on tho scones, the bodies of men were still
burning and the doorways woro filled with screaming girls. Some of them
scorned too frightened to leave tholr buildings, but others ran through
the police lines, they didn't seem to know what they were doing."
Miss Parry was still shaking from tho shock and declared her Inability
to writo hor own name. Then sho remembered that tho two new floors
which woro being put In in her building to fill up an alrshaft had crumbled
and gono to the bottom.
Thon when sho had told hor story Miss Parry went to a telephone and
to'd hor mother that she was safe. Her mother hadn't yot heard of tho accident.
Mlaalntr Mnll I'lnnr IMIiil I'imiikI.
HAN Fit AN' jSO), K. pt. 18 t'HOt
John L. Eaton. mlmiiK since last T'us
iny, when he left ltrno, Nev., eat
bound In a mail pluir, U alive and aafe
at Wiatar. Nev., according to advice
reeeUed here early to-day. Th brief
report of the airman' aafety .all he
and his plane were found fifty mliea
"Ulh of Mike, Nov.
Police Commissioner Inquires
Especially About Vehicles
Cirrying Explosives.
Pt) 1. 1 C K COM M ISMON Kit
BNIUOHT MUwl the fol.
lowing statement trm the
Morgan 'offlcca:
"Ml persona in ttw vicinity of
the explosion who can give anv
lnfonnatlon, no matter how
slight, irgardlng the details, es
pec ally aHxut vehicles carryln
expioalveM or the presence of anv
suHplrlou pei-Mus in the vlolnltv
at the time, should communlente
at once mirh Information to l'o.
lice Headquarters or the nearert
police atat on."
Zfntcil Adlrnudnck (.tilde Drml.
aLOVISK8VIL.t.R. N. Y., 8p 1C
"Uriels IMve" Rturicea, widely known
Adirondack Kulde and proprietor of tho
Hturges Hotel at Speculator. Hamilton
County, died there yesterday afternoon
at .he K of fifthly-right He waa the
lait of a family of well-known guldea.
I OBBwraHj'I A ii ma "wmxi
ii i h BHwaaMiaH
rww? "sr.
FRANK A. HALL & SONS
n44ni aattletUtt lir SO r
so win asm SI., New Vera City
aldawoJkx and on the street. With
them was n dead horse and an over
turned automobile. All alwntt them
lay broken gloss many lnchaa deep.
"Tho first sign of life I saw was
when two men lying near me got up
and run. Then the streets hegnn to
fill with people rushing from the
buildings."
U. S. DETECTIVES
CHECK UP RADICALS
Bstiinrtie dThat Hundreds of Men
Are at Work on the
Explosion.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. A cheek
ing of nil known radicals was started
tier. tsi.flM V uMar Mm AVdlnalm. In 1 1. ..
Tho explosion attracted to the sceno hundreds of thousands of office New ywk fllliuufm, llu,lrUlt( ncC(ira.
Ing to Government officials,
Although nothing has yet been dis
covered to show the explosion was
worn of radios In, the Investigation.
forces of several branch of govern
ment began co-operating In tho
checking up proeens on the theory
that a possible clew might be uncov
ered.
It Is estimated that hundroda of
Government detectives connwted with
tha Dopartmnt of Justlee, Treasury
OeiHirtment, INwt Offioe and Bureau
ef Immigration were workir cn ttic
oxplosion.
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workers from downtown Manhattan, and when tho first ambulances ar
rived they woro unable to proceed through the excited mobs. The early
police reserves had to fight their way to the scene of the explosion and
then chargo tho crowds with drawn clubs, driving thorn back to Broadway,
William Street, Ueaver 8troet and Pine Street. A cordon of pollco was
eventually established around the financial district
A piece of Iron weighing a pound broko a window In tho offlco of 8. M.
. siw'enson on the eighteenth floor of No. 61 nroadway, two blocks from tho
., explosion. Many other offices In tho upper floors of skyscrapers In lower
Manhattan report pieces or Iron entorlng tholr windows.
Hundreds wero Injured In the ofllces In the Wall Street block which
stpo.d tho full forco of the oxplosion. Soventeen employees of Morgan 4 Co.
wpre Injured to such an extent that they required assistance In leaving the
building.
. f oorea of the Injured appear to have sustained fatal hurts. At tho
'Broad Street Hospital Father Henry of the Mission of Our Iady In State
atreenCnd Rev. Father H. Zwlaslcr of Cleveland, who was near the scene
,of the explosion, wore busily engaged In administering tho last rltos of tho
VlUrV l" -wounded pontoon who appeared tb be In dungor of death.
As soon as the location of the explosion was known Companlos I. and
I of the SM United States infantry were assembled at their barracks on
Governor's Island. A detachment made up of the available men of tho
two companies was hurried over tho forry to the Ilarge Office In com
mand of Major Dlumell, with Meut. Uooth, commander of Company M.
The soldiers were moved to II road and Wall Street at double time as
soon as they were disembarked and at once wero thrown as a guard about
tke United States Rub-Treasury opposite the Morgan ofllees. The orders
were rigid that no one was to be allowed to approach the building. Polloe
and stty firemen were turned back as firmly as men whose prominence In
the street ordinarily made their faces a pass through any ordinary fire line.
An Investigation was at onee set under foot to determine what damage
baa been dou to the building and whether there was any danger that tho
walls might fall or the safety of the millions Inside he Imperilled.
Thomas J. Hlley. General Director of the Disaster Itsllef Commission,
took eharge of all Red Cross work In the stricken area. He had twenty
nursas it work on the spot and sent assistants to relieve the overburdened
staffs af the Hroaa Street Volunteer Hospitals.
Chief of U. S. Secret Service Or
dered to Miike Immediate
Investigation.
WASHINGTON, Sept. IB. Federal
authorities will make an Invest laa
tlon of the explnwtnn to-day In New
York, the Department of Justice an
nouneed'
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