Evening journal., 1920-09-16
IS ARE KILLED IN
WALL STREET EXPLOSION
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Others elambcrcd upstairs to the roof and every % ]
Wall street. even as far away as broadway was
lunch rooms wc deserted jumped from tables and
ran toward the csound Of explosion.
Throughout all Brooklyn bridge the hundreds Of ~
nds Of persons hnu lust left or leaving for lunch ammed
the narrow financial district The task Of clearing the
enable apparatus and ambuees to aeh c ~ was WV
Of the greatest oil presented 20 the police
wh United States regulars on tn" seer"
Immediately ordered from staten Island me So
atroed Offices with fixed bao"e's
all downtown recruiting stations were also orde" " %
scene According the Morgan offices at the time
explosion three and girl empIoye Of the MorS'" house were
All persons Wall when the explosion
occurred burst of flame that accompanied "'
least 100 feet in the air. they declared ana "O'
believed therew than shot Of flames
As an indication flames ambulance work
crs found banking No Y Vail street hao
" burned although they their desks They were "
least the sidewalk at the place they were seated n
Office throughout all hos
near the scene that the Offices fac
- - ~, .. hd escaned burus mr. cuts from nyno glass
More received hospitals at 1S o'clock
this hospital stated that three dead
injured Many Of the injured might be fatally
Between 80 and 10 injured Volunteer Hospital Nurses
Union Hospital rushed to the scene care LOT
less seriously injured reported have died in 0mbu-
The ce uere unable to estimate accurately
wild umor killed new about the financial districts
bu facts to support them
by glass .''..'.,,,.. G , -.
I ~ ,b ,,oroan bouc were killed One Of
The ooernnu committee Of committee
m securities will he suspended until Mo"d"
September mutual consent
business on the practical sioppaoc members
having gone OF the explosion Efforts were
bcno made consider the ad'ibHly Of closing
the exchange today.
MiNGIED COVER STREET
reporter the at Broad and Wall streets
Ave minutes after the explosion following description;
eight bodies description lay sprawled before the
white stone worlds greatest banking house
Of their On window ledge lay h
severed forearm of against the glass Across the street @
the brown stone front OF broker
and boys their egs loot away
blood Glass fell all about me
n reached the Wall street side OF the MOI
, bouse an even uesome sight Automobile truck
gathered nm the impartial Men, dared from shock" ie
an around me- the injured but there must nav
Of the Morgan house were Shaere
hby Dshed mahogany the street Window" in se''
aon wall street and high structure
a,n town Ne. York The subreasu windows WEI
asbd and the statue Washington damaged by hna debris
far as could majority Of the dead were passe
h.sore n,e Norman house whc he explosion occurred
r only evidence the theory that wagon loaded ""
,odcd were fragments Of dynamite wagon
- made Of split the and even police officials o
their heads at the Several women IN the crowd
which soon collected left whore they lay
- attention beno to injured As two volunteers lifted
.n whose stomach she Gaspd and expired shad
from the big banking concerns In wall street
- h bodes Al Wall Broad streets In front oi
,ler Trust Buldinq hoois On window ledge lay
r,,npeo,ered foo, Of woman severed at the ankle