The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1920, Page 2

temporary gallery was smashed and licens and the enormous treasure Was so far as material barriers were concerned wide open to the street, The time of the explosion is definitely fixed by the fact that the clock tm the sub-Treasury stopped at 12.01 o'clock. The only prominent financier injured in the explosion was Alvin W. Krech, President of the Equitable Trust Co, Hoe was strvck by broken Glass while eltting In bis office and was treated at the Broad Street Hom pital. ‘The explosion created more confusion In New York than even the great Black Tom explosion. Tire business. of the whole financial district was paralyzed for the rest of the day. ‘The sessions of the Stock Exchange and the Curb market wore suspended. Hundreds of brokerage offices cloned, Th addition to hundreds of thousands who swarmed to the narrow canons of the finkncial district iminediately after the explosion others came from ail parts of the city, as news of the disaster spread, in search of children or relatives employed in offices in the financial district, The Pressure on the telephone service was #o great that it was almost impos- sible to obtain telephone connection with brokerage offices and banke and anxious persons hurried downtown to make personal inquiries, The crowd wae greatly augmented by city officials and county offi- Cals and police officials and volunteer investigators. The District Attor- ney’s Gfice moved down to Wall Street almost on masse and began issuing statements to the press. ‘The theory that a truckload of explosives wem up in front of the Aapay Office was strengthened late this aflernoon by the testimony of Morris Whitman, a clerk in Bamberger Brothers, No. 66 Broadway. He was on hid way to the office aftor making a deposit ina bank. A dynamite delivery wagon passed him movng westward in Wall Street. The explosion oocurred a few minutes lator. William J. Fiynn, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Depart. ‘Ment of Justice left Washington for New York this afternoon, He will take , Charge of the foree which is investigating the disaster. Many of the injured Will die. Bight who were taken to the Broad Street Howpital for treatment died within three hours after the explosion. Five of the early victims were women. The terrific force of the explosion was Police an THE EVENING WORLD, THUR BDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 19 R00PS RUSHED TO GUARD SUB-TREASURY IN WALL -L STREE d Firemen Gathering the Bodies Of Victims in Front of J. P. Morgan Office PED 4, ow Semis 3 i _ TAT, mt REN ie INJURED AND DEAD LAY ALU ROU! ON WALL AND BROAD STRE Daniel F. Nugent, a lawyer of the firm of Nugent and Nngent, 28 joon Avenue, who was in front of the Morgan Building at the time of explosion, describes the scene of the accident ag follows “I wae just about to enter the Morgan Butlding when the con knocked me down on the sidewalk, I was badly stunned from the f anose after I had collected my thomghts and saw broken glass coverin street, All about me mem amd women were lying bleeding. About feet down Wall Street there was an auto in a mass of flan Acta street. from it there was a #hattered wagon and a borse lying dead evera) Men cut almost in half from the large plate ginas which fell the building. No one was 4o be seen in the dust covered streets excep victims of the explosion. A few moments later as I Made my way up to Brosiway thousands of people evidently expecting another explosia follow swarmed on the street trom the buildings ‘ENRIGHT ISSUES | CALLFORFACTS | ON EXPLOSION | | — Police Commissioner Inquires Especially About Vehicles Carrying Exphosives. iF YoU SAVE OLICE COMMISSIONER | P ONRIGHT “esued the fal- $20°° (ON lowing statement from the | BED, AND. LOSE 290" (NIGHTS SLEEP, WHAT YOUR Morgan offices persons in. the vielnity of the explosion who can give any information, ne matter bow shown by the nature of the wounds inflicted on the dead and injured, The Might, vewatding Xho detain, Oe AYE bodies were shockingly mangled. pec ally about veh carrying Pieces of bodies were found on window sills and in crevices of butld- ings hundreds of feet from the scene of the explosion. Many of the vic- tims suffered the loss of limba. Following the explosion a cloud of smoke and dust ascended to a point explosives or the presence of any suspicious persons in the vicinity should communicate at once such information to Pos | | at the time | Nce Headquarters or the nearcet | higher than the roofs of the surrounding skyscrapers, Tulldings for a] 7 ets = “I have never seon such sights. ‘The front of Morgan's was blown out | police stat o1 he yadius of blocks were peppered by pieces of debris. ‘The fronts of buildings |ALL PROSTRATE Breyer Bere lear at Licata poveo eat oe im the Wall Street block between Broad and William Streets look as thouss | NEAR WRECK SCENE, | John L. Baton, , wstea. Aainandncts Guide Dew hand A Watbia none > Wher tend been subjented to stellfire. SAYS POLICEMAN | ind‘Ine age Plan “Uncle Reeding Speciatists tor 00 years Owing to the shattered condition of the buildings occupied by the at hatter, pbiroudach qulde and proprieter of ee | 26 Woat 40th BL, Mow York Olty Sub-Treasury and the Assay Ofice, those buildings are under the guard rt | ety | County, Sterday atteroaan'| hy ° f f of “oldiers from Governor's Island with fixed bayonets Lieutenant on Street Nearby Gives found Atty mile \; * 5 € nt, He was the | ———— ~ It was reported late this afternoon that pieces of debris fying from First Impressions of the , the explosion scarred the walls of the Equitable Building up to the Disaster, ° twentieth floor. This story of an eye-witness came (Continued trom First Page.) | The Department of Justice agents in their opinion that a wagon load | pom a Licutenant of police, who de- | of explosives went off, are guided to some oxtent by the filings of Frank! clined to give bia name. from their bodies or burned off. Some of them had their legs blown off, » Francisco, an agent who has made a specialty of explosions. He said this Re Bi yihai nd aire Wan spare and oh! it was awful. The police threw sheets over the bodies us fast | afternoon : mn Broadway and Broad,” he} f “The walls of the Sub Treasury and in Mr. Morgan's office show great | *Jd, “when, uddenty, 1 heard and |" they could get them and when they had thé bodies covered they lot us | damage. If an attempt were made on the Morgan institution the destruc-| {elt @ terrific explonion. My next im-|out of our building. tion would not have been so powerful on the other wide of the street. All tae a aed titel — ie “The street was then filled with hysterical and screaming girls, and the le pape 1 . prior explosions and attempts on Iife show that the force dows Det COVER) et aitiew of buildings around me, | Police did their best to quiet them. ‘There was at least half a foot of glass an area of more m9 eo or fiftoen feet. Mf sven in the migaie{ {TA 20% to Broad Strect and for] om the streot and sidewalk, and I had to be careful In walking to Nassau Fifth Avenue at 35th Street 4 “In my opinion & would indicate a quantity of explosives in the ©) moment thought the street was de-| street lest I cut my shoe: i ff of the street got into a collision due to reckless driving. sérted, ¥ eee Established 1879 If an attempt had been made on Mr. Morgan's offices it would have been made at night, or some radical would have secured a position in the institution pad planted an infernal machine inside the office.” Although police reserves were ordered to the scene from all over Manhattan and from downtown Brooklyn, the itrmense crowds were be yond police control for more than an hour after the exploison, At 2 o'clock thin afterncon a detail of soldiers from Governor's Island was ordered “In all my investigations 1 have never seen such destruction. “There Was not @ soul standing on it, Then, when I collected my senses, 1 saw scores of bodies lying on the sidowalka and on the street. With thom was a dead horse and an over- turned aw pile. All about them lay broken glass many inches deep. “The first sign of life | sow was when two mon lying near me got up and ran, ‘Then tho streets began to and the interior was an awful looking wreck. In front of Morgan's office was a burning automobile, the flames jumping high, “Windows on every side had been emashed and the buildings them- selves looked like wrecks, the front of them having been torn out. + At least that ts my recollection of what I saw, for IT lost no time In getting into Nassau Street and away from the awful sights. Ambulances seemed to come from everywhere, and all the emergency wagons in the city seemed | ' Offer Friday cA First-of-the-season Sale of to the acene to guard the Sub-Treasury.and Asisy OMoce, the windows of jail han. hen the nitcots began to) t be there while the fire engines and trucks came in from all sides. WOMEN’S NEW BI which were yan ell Cat aaa a aia aad ab een lanai buildings.” “When I turned my back on the scenes, the bodies of men were sti!! Near the fragmen' the dead horse \ ———— burning and the doorways were filled with screaming girls. Some of them bearing the pumber “24,246 N, J.” The automobile was ae to bang U. S. DETECTIVES seomed too frightened to leave their buildings, but others ran through N al at the moment of the explosion, 1t is believed the occupants were . the police lines, they didn’t seem to know what they were doing.” A E SKI R I S No trace has been found of the body of the driver of tho truck, At the moment of the explosion Wall Street and the surrounding streets were jammed with people. Long before the {iret ambulance arrived the bodies of probably ten victims had been removed in automobiles, and goores of wounded had also been taken away. The Broad Street Hospital resembled a dressing station in the front lines of a battle field in France. The Volunteer Hospital was also used for the care of the injured and temporary reception of the dead. CHECK UP RADICALS Estimate dThat Hundreds of Men Are at Work on the Explosion, WASHINGTON, Sept, 16.-—A cheok ing of all known radicals was started h we ft hi 0 Bre cc caction austasted to: the soane BupAreds,of thouapads of ottice! ere to-day after the explosion in the New York financial district, accord workers from downtown Manhattan, and when the first ambulances ar- ing to Government offictats. rived they were unable to proceed through the excited mobs, The early police reserves had to fight their way to the scene of the explosion and then charge the crowds with drawn clubs, driving them back to Broadway, William Street, Beaver Street and Pine Street. A cordon of police was eventually established around the financial district. A piece of iron weighing # pound broke a window in the office of 8. M. Swenson on the eighteenth floor of No. 61 Broadway, two blocks from the explosion. Many other offices in the upper floors of skyscrapers in lower Manhattan report pieces of iron entering their windows, welts r Scores of the injured appear to have sustained fatal burts, At the Broad Street Hospital Father Henry of the Mission of Our Lady tn Gtate Street ind Rev, Father H. Zwissler of Cleveland, who was near the poene of the explosion, were busily engaged In administering the last rites of the church to wounded persons who appeared to be in danger of death, ‘As soon 86 the location of the explosion was known Companies L. and M of the 224 United States Infantry were assembled at thelr barracks on Governor's Island, A detachment made up of the available men of the two companies was hurried over the ferry to the Barge OMce tn com- mand of Major Blumel!, with Lieut, Booth, comgnander of Company M. The soldiers were moved to Broad and Wall Street at double time as soon as they were disembarked and at once were thrown as a guard about the United States Sub-Treasury opposite the Morgan offices, The orders were rigid thar no one was to be allowed to approach the bullding, Police and city firemen were turned back os firmly as men whose prominence tn the street ordinarily made their faces pass through any ordinary fire line An investigation was at once set ynder foot to determine what damag« had been done to the building and whether there was any danger that the walls might fall or the safety of the millions inside be imperiled. Thomes J. Riley, took charge of all Red Cross work in the stricken area nurses at work on the spot and sent assistants to reli staffx of the Broad Street Volunteer Honpitels. Gene He had twenty be Arter, 107 Smoot Munie, 90 Liquid View “fh QUEDUCT ENTRIES. sl Director of the Disaster Relief Commission, |. | the overburdened | Although nothing has yet been dis- covered to show the work of radicals, the inveatization forees of weveral branches of govern- ment began co-operating in the checking up proceas on the theory that a pos#tble clew might be uncoy ered It in estimated that hundreds of Government detectives connected with the Department of Justice, Treasury explosion was FLYNN careers HERE | BY SPECIAL TRAIN Chief of U. S. Secret Service Or- dered to Make Immediate ltivestigation WASHINGTON, Sept, 16.— Federal will make an investiqn tion of the explosion to-day in New York, the Department of Justice an- nounced authorities Flynn, William J Chief of the United Stat Bervice left Washington in a sp 1 train for New York this afternoon, according to word received at the local offidts of the Dep artmient of Justice. 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