The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1920, Page 1

rt WALL ‘Si EXCHANGE CLOSED; ___ J.P. MORGAN'S OFFICE WRECKED | To-night’s weather—FAIR, Fr cirentation Books 1 Open to All.” | ~s Sa reomasooosaqronocrmeemens VOL. LXI. NO, 21 sake re Copyrights 1920, py The Prove Publishing Ce, (The New York World), NEW ‘YORK, "THURSDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER chal 1920. Post Office, New Scene at Wall Street Front of Morgan’ s Office a Few Minutes After the Terrific .__. TROOPS PLACED ON GUARD — ~ IN THE BANKING DISTRICT. | oY Employees in Offices in Neighbor- Tremendous Crowds Impede the hood of the Explosion Say That) Ambulances—Buildings Riddled Some of the Buildings Rocked as_ as if Subjected to Gunfire—Hos- | If From an Earthquake—U. S.| pital Reception Rooms Like Dress, Troops Guard U.S. Sub-Treasury.| ing Station on a Battlefield. ste josion in Wal Street, t f Broad, ‘ne tinmeat heat ot New York at oon tay ied sintcen mor | MARKLE, COAL OPERATOR, Feta wscad the 3 Movpantwokng none te settresy|~ CONVINCED THAT EXPLOSION - WAS WORK OF BOLSHEVISTS ami the Assay Office and caused property damage estimated at $1,- —_t>—- John Markle of the Hotel Plaza, the noted anthracite 000,000, Experts are in controversy over mining operator, was seen at the St. Vincent Hospital, whither he went with his mining engineer, A. B. Jessup, both having been cut by glass. “We were in Mr. Morgan's private office," 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 clerks were toppled from their seats to the floor, all of them = cut by the glass or otherwise hurt. 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 abansoned | jat 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 Jof noon. The horse was blown to pieces, but no trace had been found of the body of the driver. Department of Justice experis are of the opinion that no manufac: | 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 a i | of a collision between the explosives truck and an automobile. Mr. Morgan did not seem to be hurt, but Mr. Joyce \ Witnesses have been found who claim to have seen a truck marked| “** badly cut. “EXPLOSIV! near the scene of the explosion shortly before noon. | P “Both Mr. Jessup and I are technical men and we say There are also witnesses who claim to have seen a flash in an automobile} Positively that the sanixe of the explosion wpe an Gutoniee standing at the curb near the Morgan Bank, which flash was immediately bile in front of the office on the Wall Street side. I don’t | followed by the explosion, know what else went up, but the origin of the blowup was | FIND DEBRIS THAT SUPPORTS BOMB THEORY. | the automobile. And there is no question in my mind that In support of the theory that the explosion came from a time bomb,| it was the work of Bolshevists.” a chauffeur, says the ‘experts point to pieces of springs, window sash weights and pieces "| orem, ay Bayville, L. I., sheet metal found on the street near the remains of the horse. explosion in an automobile which was either tured’single bomb could cause the damage which was done, | GRAPHIC STORY BY GRL OF TERRORS OF EXPLOSION AND ThE SCENES OF DEATH Dead and Injured LIST OF DEAD. JACOBS, IRVING D., broker, No. 60 Broad. ‘ > ington, D, C.; Volu BAAKMAN, JOSEPH, no ad dress; Broad Street Hospttal, BISHOP, MARY, No, 1040 Park © Hompital cul Gaeaviee ata ciie (cis ie ase Place, Brooklyn; cuts on faoa One man, William Joyce, a clerk was killed in the banking house ot| | standing in front of the Morgan bank or moving slowly ourtties department J. P. Morgan ei ae ee tl oe Morgan & Co, J.P, Morgan is in Burope. His son, Junius Morgan,| eastward. He Ip the chauffeur for Winslow S. Pierce and & Co, \ | BOCK, FRED, No. 821 Past 79th was standing near his car in front of No. 40\Wall Street Street, Volunteer Hospital. waiting for his employer. “I was looking at the automobile,” said Davis. the onty member of the finn 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 roont on the second UNIDENTIFIED BOY, about 16, 5 feet 6, brown hair and eyes, clothing blown from body; Old Sitp Poltco Station. UNIDENTIFIED BODOLSKY, No, 166 Das, iad Street, lacerations of head; Old Blip Polloo Station. BOND, JACK, No. 2" Woat 111th bes | saw Miss Ella Parry, in Office Opposite’ Morgan © Co., Narrowly Escapes Injury and Joins in Wild Flight to the’Street. ; Miss Ella Parry, twenty-two years old, of No. 156 Bast 65th Street, a} stenographer with A. Iselin @ Co., No. 36 Wall Btreet, almost directly op- posite the office of Morgan @ Co,, gave @ vivid account of her experience. She narrowly escaped being cut by glass or caught in the fall of plaster | her office | “[ had just left my desk," she said, “and waa washing my hands, when veard the explosion. The glass of our windows fell into the offce and e celling fell all about ua, Where T had just been sitting was coy ed with heavy plaster, 1 did not walt to get my hat, but with others ished into the street | it was the most awful sound { had ever heard and I was terror ricken. All the women in the building, and the men, too, went rushing for door and 1 pretty well fu the lead. The girls were screaming tn rror and 1 was among them, When we got to tho door policemen were | ere and they nade y buck. I looked down into the street and sav | reason, What} awful e were not les® than @ dozen dead persons on the’ wldewalk ta ront of our building and the Sub-Treasury. So thom had Weir faces aimoat completely blown off, end thelr clothing had either been blown (Continued 99 discond Hage.) WOMAN, blue cyes, black waist, black skirt, black lace shoos, black #tockings, small solitaire diamond ring on left hand. about 66, gray hair, by IDENTIFIED, APPAR- ENTLY JEWISH MAN, about 48, 6 foot 10, dark hatr, brown eyes, dark ault, THE INJURED. ALANA HR, WILLIAM, No” 110 Gon Avenuo, Bronx, lac- erations of hands and legu; Now York Dispensary, ANDERSON, ARTITUR, No, 6 Brooklyn, Inosration Ne MARGARET 1138 Rice Avenue, Bronx; lac Uons of arme and hands! Vo toor Hospital, ASHLY, ANTHONY. Dewatur Avenue, Lron body; Mroad @roet F RAB, TOME gylo Avenue, BAGLBY “WAY DOWN FANT Bou mo mee hdl Ot. Theatre Aden BLDRIDGH, Wash Street; head and hands out; Vol- unteer Hospital. BOWMAN, WILLIAM, No, 2% South Street, shock. Hroad Htreet Hospital, BROWN, GEORGE EDWARD, No, 167 Hast 70th Strest; face, head, arms and body injured; Volunteer Hompital. BUONO, THARLMA, no a4- Grows; Volunicer Hospital, BURLBURG, JOHN. Hast 64th Stroot, la and head; Broad’ Street Hospital. CASSEL, JAMS W., No, 590 Kast 167th Street, jacerated head Broad Btreet Hospital, CHILD, ©, F Btreet, ‘fracty Broad’ Atree CIRMON, Hospital CONOORS, EMMI , No, 1187 Redford avenues, Brooklyn; Hroud Street Hoepital, CONWAY, JOHN F,, Greenwood | Avenue, Y ‘0, 110 West sath wed right arm Howpital ALEX, 480 none (Continued on Third Page.) _ WAY DOWN Farr.” ° ‘Tivatre— Ai me WORLD, RESTAURANT ri Ln ihity | floor, which ts on the Broad Street ide of the building remote from the |scene of the explosion. The theory that the explosion was caused by a bomb inyan automobile which was either moving slowly eastward or standing at the curb in front |of the Morganbank is bulwarked by the testimony of at least two wit- |nesses who clai mto have seen the flash in the car. | Figuring prominently In the @ecident—or In the reports of the | alloged eye-witnosses—is an automobile owned by D, 8. Belden, who | owns a drug store in Nowark. The car was demolished and the ehaut- | four, Jerome H. McKean, was blown to pieces. Rolden was in an of- | flee at No, 62 Wall Street at the time of the explosion and sald he left his car at the curb a fow minutes before and there were no explosives tn It MAYOR WILL URG E REWARD OF $10,000, | Mayor Hylan afler a visit to the scene of the explosion sald at the Clty Hall that he will ask the Board of Estimate to-morrow to offer a rewant of $10,000 for Information which may lead to discovery of a plot ff there was a plot. The clty officla of the apinion that an explo- sion at noon In the street betw ¢ Morgan office and the Sub-Treasury } 1s a subject worthy of careful investlgathon, sie be Practically all the explosives used in building operations In New [to oate-kooplng during #tructural changes in the Treswury Buflding. The @ flash, immediately followed by a terrific explosion. sure a bomb exploded in the car.” ——E SSS York are furnished by the E. 1, Du Pont, Nemours Company. The firm: reports that none of its fons 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 would come from the type of truck which conveys 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 vere greatly interested in the story of Hiram Davis, a chauffeur, who laims 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 ¢ which, some witnesses say; was drawing the truck in which the explosion occurred, Letwoon the United States Sub Treasury and he Assay Office to the t a temporary structure waa erected recontly, This hds been used to transfor of $900,000,000 tn gold and bullion to the Asday Office jthield the eer ce reese 099 ee