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street while he visited a nearby
sivea in the car.
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Upon Stock Exchange Operaj
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pital from bums. He is included in
the list of thirty-three dead.
On the assumption that the Wall
Street explosion was the beginning
of a wave of Red terrorism, public
officials have been warned to employ
bodyguards. Picked men from
the police department are guarding
the homes of public officials.
Wall and Broad streets, the "financial
capital of the world," is like
an armed camp, with soldiers, policemen,
and special armed guards on
duty. The stock exchange building
\ and the great banks in the Wall
Street district are picketed. A new
police "dead line" has been established.
Every person who crosses
it is closely scrutinized, as well as
every vehicle.
A general police alarm has been
sent out for missing or stolen onehorse
trucks, such as that in which
the time bomb was carried to the
Morgan Bank. The broken parts of
the wagon, which was demolished by
the detonation, have ben pieced together
as well as possible, and the
police are now trying to find the
owner of it.
That the plotters have an efficient
organization with secret sources of
information is indicated by the fact
that the explosion occurred just
twenty-four nours after the special
bomb squad operatives of the police
department were withdrawn from
the financial district.
CHECK UP ANARCHISTS.
Lists of all the known dangerous
anarchists in the United States are
being carefully checked over by the
Government sleuths. "The Federal
end of the investigation is directed
by William J. Flynn, head of the
United States Secret Service, who is
ob the ground in person.
Poljce Commissioner Enright has
divided the police investigation
along the following lines:
1?Tracing the writer of the
warning letters which are now in
the possession of the police department;
2?Searching for the owner of
the one-horse wagon in- which the
bomb was carried to Wall street;
3?Hunting for an automobile
in which the men who drove the
wagon are said to have fled a few
foments before the explosion;
4?Tracing the source of the
clock which was used to set off
the bomb at one minute after 12
o'clock, Thursday noon;
6?Hunting for the source of
the "T. N. T." or other explosive
that was used in the construction
of the infernal machine:
6?Ascertaining where the bomb
was constructed and how many
persons were involved in the conspiracy.
LETTER OF WARNING.
The warning letter sent to
Lieutenant Arnaud did not arrive
through the mails. It was dropped
through the slot in the door of the
commission's offices at 65 Broadway
on Wednesday morning. The letter
was written with pen and ink and
opened with the word "Greetings."
It was contained in a small white
envelope. Lieutenant Arnaud did
not take the warning seriously. After
reading it he tore the letter into
bits, dropped It Into a waste paper
basket, and forgot all about It?until
after the Wall street district was
rocked bv the most ghastly explosion
In New York's history. Then he
secured the tatters, pasted them together,
and gave them to the
jin'ce.
The Jetter Intimated that "certain
persons who had grievances"
would get revenge by setting off a
high power bomb between 2 o'clock
and 1:30, but the exact date of the
explosion was not given. The writer
said he hnd the kindest feelings for
France and for the members of the
French Mich Commission, which accounted
for his warning He sugpested
that the commission's offices
be closed and that the officials
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Pharmacy, Market and Broad
s left the auto in front of 212 Wall
office. He said there were no explo900
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50 Feet From Center
Of Morgan Explosion
NEW YORK, Hept. 17?Within
fifty fret of th? scene of the explosion
is more than $900,000,000 in
gold bullion and coin, the greatest
amount of the metal in any one
place on earth.
This great store of gold is being
transferred from the Subtreasiiry
vaults to the newer and larger '
vaults of the new assay office which
adjoins the Bubtraasury to the east- (
ward on the north side of Wall ,
Street.
The transfer Is being made by i
means of a wooden chute which j '
spans the twenty-foot, alley between I
the two buildings, the gold bars, . i
each worth $6,500, being slid across |
in boxes on a traveling belt. j )
The fact this vast amount of gold ; ,
was near flashed ijito the minds of I j
many persons?particularly attaches ,
of the Subtreasury and as.say office : J
?-at the moment of the explosion I j
and was dwelt upon later when the 1
bomb theory was advanced. '
stay away from Wall street. i
The letter received by Mr. Ketchledge
was mailed from Toronto, i
Canada. Mr. Ketchledge at first re- t
fused to make It public, but latef 1
gave it out. The contents, which are j
brief, follow: I
"Greetings: Get out of Wall I
street on the gong stj-lke of 3 (
o'clock Wednesday, the 15th of s
September. Good luck to you, Ed i
Fischer." 1
PUT NO STOCK IN IJ.
"I knew Fischer well, but I did <
not put much stock ip hlB warning,",1
said Mr. Ketchledge. "He was a
lawyer by profession, but was un- 1
?ble to practice his profession for 1
many years on account of recurring 1
attacks of paranoia. He had been '
committed to institutions, but was 1
released as cured."
"He had an intense hatred of Wall
street That was th? form his mental *
illness took. So far as I know, he
never suffered any financial reverses |
in Wall street I do not believe that 1
Fischer has any intimate knowledge 1
about this dreadful disaster. He was 1
not a member of any radical organi- 1
zatlon. It is probable that he was I
suffering from one of his periodic c
mental aberrations when he sent the '
warning and the fact that the explosion
occurred about that time *
was a coincidence." a
Fischer is said to have gone to r
Canada to attend a tennis match. 1
He has been in ill health recently J
and his parents were attempting to [
persuade him to enter a sanitarium. "
Eighteen of the dead in the explo- e
sion were taken to the morgue. Tney \
included four women and a boy. v
Medical officials who examined the ?
bodies reported to District Attorney "
Edward Swann and Chief Police In- v
spector William J. Lahey-that there 8
was no doubt death was caused by a r
bomb of tremendous power. It is be- d
lieved that the infernal machine a
weighed more than 100 pounds.
PIECES OF IRON IN BODIES. t
"In several of the bodies we found *
pieces of iron, and these have been t
turned over to the police," said Chief
Medical Examiner (Charles Norris. *
"They appear to have been made tl
from window sash weights that were ?
sawed into small pieces. There is no
doubt that a bomb caused the explo- tl
sion. The nature of the wounds t
shows that." j p
William J. Burns, whose detective a
agency in employed to guard the o
Morgan building, said he believed t
that the bomb mechanism was sim- a
ilar to that used in the McNamara ' f<
dynamiting cases, when cheap alarm tl
docks were used to set off the explo- si
sive. It was the Burns agency that;j<
ran down the McNamara dynamit- tl
era. o!
"The time clock was probably set k
for 1U o'clock noon In this Instance," rr
said Burns. "It Is possible that the
plotters hoped to stop their wagon
directly in front of the Morgan ri
bank, but were delayed by heavy if
traffic and were compelled to pull if
up in front of the United States sub- tl
treasury building across the street. J a
"There were great crowds in the '
street at the time, as it was in the sl
midst of the lunch hour. I believe \
the conspirators purposely chose w
this time, knowing that It would be j w
easier for them to escape In the^i
crowded street They could not have i tl
been far awsy when the hlast went rj
off. So far as we can learn, the j
wagon had halted only a few w
minute* before the explosion. Im- rr
mediately after the hlast the air fc
was filled with the fumes of picric t>
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View of Wall street five minu
burst.?The photographer took his
showing steps of the United States
The authorities have discarded j
:he theory that a robber baud hoped >
jo wreck the Morgan bank and the j
United States sub-treasury and loot |
he vaults under the cover of the !
general panic and excitement. It is j
idmiited, however, that such a plot, '
if successfully carried out, would |
lave yielded u rich harvest. There ,
vas $900,000 in gold bullion stored j
n the vaults of the United States
issay office, and $1,000,000 more in
he United States sub-treasury. The
itnount of gold bullion and coin in
;he Morgan bank and the nearby
Jankers Trust Company is not definitely
known, but is very largei
With dawn today the army of Investigators
on the scene of the catas:roph^"was
reinforced. Renewed ef'orts
were made to gain information
is to the identity of the terrorists
:hrough the horse and wagon which
lad carried the bomb. The carcass
jf the dead horse was minutely eximined.
It was found that the aninal
was newly shod and that it had
-ecently been clipped.
Detectives have l>e?n assigned^ to
:ahvas8 all blacksmith shops in New 1
ifork to check up the owners of
lorses shod within the past few
lays. Detectives are making a sim- j
ilar investigation on Long Island
ind at various places in New Jersey '
vbere anarchists were formerly I
mown to gather.
BOMB VEHICLE YELLOW.
The police department gave out
Jie following description of the
)omb vehicle:
"A one-horse affair of the 'rack'
rariety. The bed was enclosed in a
letwork of slender poles and rails.
It was painted yellow."
Regular explosive* wagons are |
tainted red, are entirely covered,
arry a red flag, and are emblazoned ;
vith big warning placards.
All of the injured who are able to !
alk are being examined in hospitals j
ind their horries by Federal and mu- j
ticipal detectives. They have been
ible to give information of some
-aiue, but most of them said they
lad noticed nothing until they were ;
nocked down by the earthquake-like
xplosion.
Those who were in the immediate
icinity of Broad and Wall streets
aid that the chiming of the clock in
Trinity tower had barely ceased
rhen a muffled roar like a blast of
trtillery broke forth. Buildings
ocked and the air was immediately
arkened by smoke and flying wreck&c
A sheet of flame leaped through
he windows of the Morgan bank and
he Sub-Treasury. This flame had
he appearance of coming from the
ank, and it was this phenomenon
hat led to the original report that
he explosion had occurred in the
lorgan bank.
The echocs of the blast rang
hrough the canon-like streets beween
the towering buildings. A
all of thick, oily yellow smoke arose
s the streets rattled with the crash
f falling glass. A great shout arose
rom the panic-stricken people. Men
nd women, aroused to frenzy by
ear, began .running aimlessly
1 rough the streets, and above their
houts rose the screams of the injred.
In the excitement no one
"lought to look for the perpetrators
f the outrage. In fact, it was not
nown at that time that an infernal
lachine had caused it.
SAW WAGON PASS.
At 11:45 a. m. yesterday a wagon
psembling that described as figurlg
in the disaster passed the huildig
being erected three blocks from
le scene of the explosion at William
nd Cedar streets, according to John
, Meehan, superintendent of connection
at that building.
Meehan said the drive* of the
agon exchanged some spirited
ords with one of Meehan's truck
len because of a slight traffic jam,
>e driver evidently being in a hur- '
f to get to his destination.
There was a second man on the
agon, Meehan said, and both this
lan and the driver appeared to be
>reigners. There was something on
i? wagon covered with canva?, Mee- .
*n'k workmen declared. I
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List of Dead
In New York
Explosion
Alrxaadrr, Mildred, !?w York
city.
Aubfbnry, Joseph, fwrnty-wvtB
year*, 18 Skeraaaa avenae. the
Bronx
Dlrklamra. Ml? Cirallu, forty
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Itonovnn. Joka, of Brooklyn,
buna.
I>rn*7, .Margaret A., tweaty years,
atrnorruphrr, Brooklyn.
Kllaworth. Kr Kin a Id. West Or nirc,
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Kllaworth, Worth Biflrj, 1*38
Gerard atrffl, Waahlnrton. D. C.
Qllle>. W. K, of Pelhnm, N. Y.
Haarahaa. Charlea, aereateea
yrara, meaaeajrer. Brooklyn.
Ilutehlnaon. YVIlllaia T, Gardea
f'i?7. L. I. broker, with offlees at
12? Broadway.
Johaaon, Jolin, dfty-flTe yeara, ,
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Hrkaltt, Joaeph. thirty ycara,
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'ALMER IN N. Y. TO TAKE
CHARGE OF BOMB PROBE
attorney General Will Take Personal
Direction of Investigation Into
Morgan Bank Explosion.
Attorney (Jeni ral Palmer has (fonc
) New Vork and will take personal i
harge of the investigation the
'all Street explosion. It was learned
t hi* office today.
The Attorney rjeneral had planned
> leave for his home in Stroud*- j
jrg. Pa., last night, but changed
Is plans and took an early morning
#in for New York.
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to lunch. Many of the victims were
building when the bomb burst, sendi
however, lived for a few minutes.
U WASHINGTON
MEN DIE IN BLAST
| Colonel Neville and W. B.
Ellsworth Killed?Two
Others Are Injured.
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before the explosion took place and
Is thought to have been on a sightseeing
trip through lower N*w York
before taking the train for thin city.
His mother via Informed of his inJury
and immediately telegraphed to
the boy's father, who wan in Philadelphia
in connection with his work an
superintendent of service, Postofflce
Department. Mr. Kllsworth went on
to New York last night. He announced
the death of his son by telephone
this morning.
I^eo K. lirury was employed as a
loan clerk in the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company. 50 Cedar
street. New York. He was leaving
ithe building to go to lunch when the
explosion occurred. He was taken to
the Post Graduate Hospital, where he
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and banking houses on their way
! directly in front of the Morgan
ng them to instant death. Some,
was joined by hi* mother, who wa* In
New York at the time. His father
left last night for New York.
Young Urury attended school at St.
John'* College, this city,' and at Mt.
St. Mary's College, Kmmltsburg, Md.
He enlisted in the Students' Army
Training Corps, from which he was
discharged about four months affo.
Uwrence L. Koberts l?, connected
with the Newcomb Printing Company,
of New York. He had been in one of
the banks In the explosion zone anJ
was leaving the building when the
catastrophe took place. He was in- )
jured by a falling stone, which shattered
his leg below the knee.
Roberts was prominent in Washington
athletics. He was well known
a sa baseball player and was in the
Union Printers' Hareball League for
a time. tA the outbreak of the war
he enlisted in the engineer corps,
serving for about a year, after which
he was transferred to the officers'
training corps at Camp Gordon.
OPEN SCHOOL CAFETERIA.
AKRON, Ohio, Sept. 17.?A cafeteria
will be opened at West High
School this Fall. All equipment has
been installed, supplies purchased and
cooks hired. All food will be served
at actual cost of preparation, school
officials announced. Pupils will b*
employed to aid in serving.
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