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tho bomb--and he was strongly of the
opinion that it was bomb.

l.. l.. Summers, chief technical expert for
j. p. Morgan & Co. when they were p,lr-
| chasing agents for the allies before the
| United States entered the war. and after
that timo chief technical expert for the
| War Industries Board. MIR. Summers told
in The World yesterday his reasons for
believing from observations made inn
modintely after tho explosion, that INT
! had been the agent. Yesterday MIR. Sum-
mers went into greater detail, saying:
''The magnitude of the explosion
| showed that il could not have been caused
| by a hand-carred bomb The fact that no
| building walls were disturbed, even though
| they are very heavy buildings and the
| fact that the window sashes were not in
general carried out with the glass, would
| Indicate that the effect had been produced
| by n charge less than that of heavy air.
plane bomb and greater than that of the
average high explosive she'll In other
words, | should guess that the charge was
less than $50 pounds, but in excess of
80 or 100 pounds. The bomb would prob
ably have made up a bulky object of
perhaps six inches in diameter by about
two feet in length. From the fact that it
could not have been hand-carried bomb
it may be fixed that the bomb was fired
from a vehicle.
NOT AN INDUSTRIAL ENPIoElNE.
''This damage to surrounding buildings
from the exploxion itself shows that ii
had metal contents and therefore that il
was not an industrial explosive Even
tin container could not blow up that way
and make these indentations ON the build
ings. Consequently, it could not have been
an industrial explosive which does away
absolutely with the accident theory.
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arc further corroboration that the bomb
was fired with deliberate and criminal
intent
''The basis of the smoke was black
densely black, rapidly turning to yellow,
and flame charged. Quite aside from the
possibility of carrying an lnilammable
mixture which the bomb may have had
inserted in its charge and which would
not have been in domestic explosive, the
presence of the flame and the black smoke
would indicate the hydrocarbon base
rather than a glycerine base.
SIN other words, it was INT, or picric
acid, either of which could have produced
the spectacle of the Wall street explosion
and have wrought the damage of that
explosion"
With the death yesterday of John A.
Donohue, accountant in the export de-
IdFLlittlt vi y. 4 NlbIEdil W tt.t tha tAt
second of the employees of that firm to die,
the number of dead in the Wall street ex-
plosion stands at 35 Donohuc had left
the Morgan building just before the ex-
plosion, and a few moments later was seen
running by the entrance at the corner of
Broad and Wall streets with his clothing
afiame. 4 doorman helped extingulsh the
flames and rushed the injured man TO the
Broad Street Hospital. Later he was trans
ferred TO Bellevue, where DIR. Henry W.
Cave, personal physician of T.. X. Stet-
tinius. member of the Morgan firm, at
tended him. William T. Joyce, a clerk,
was the first fatality in the Morgan Office.
He was killed at his desk az the time OF the
explosion.
The National Surety Company, which
carries many policies protecting brokers
and banks against loss from stolen or lost
securities, announced yesterday that the
market value of stocks and bonds reported
lost in the panic which followed the ex-
plosion at Broad and Wall streets was
s2l2, 900, with face value of more than
$500, 1000 OF these all but S2l, 900 worth
have been recovered.
MYSTERY IN FIscHER's WARNINGS.
Edward II. Fischer, the New York
accountant who wrote warnings 10 the
French High Commission and Others
telling them TO beware Of explosions in
Wall street and forecasting Thursdays
horror. was arrested in Hamilton, Ont,
and committed for the time being TO the
Ontario Provisional Asylum. There he |
rs alleged TO have declared his hatred
for the Morgans.
Whether the man was raving when
he wrote his warnings or whether or not |
he is irresponsible, the relationship |
between his letters and the actual dyna-
hitting of Wall street is so close rs 20 |
prompt the New York police, the De
partment Of Justice and District Attorney
Swami to dispatch men to Hamilton |
today.
1t was learned last night that J. p. |
Morgan & Co. were warned of the coming |
of the explosion. Ii was just such a /
warning as the French high commission |
received from Edward p. Fischer, the |
lawyer formerly employed by the com
mission. 1t is believed Fischer was the |
author of it. According to William |
W. Mead. clerk in the Morgan firm, |
the letter was received on Wednesday |
from Buffalo. 1t warned all to stay /
away from Wall street on Thursday /
between and O'Clock"