Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-09-24
BLAST KILLS 36
5 IN WALL STREET
More Than $50 Other Persons
Are Injured by Mysterious
Explosion.
MORGAN FIRM MEMBER HURT
Fsderal Officers Find Evidence to Jus
tIfy Conclusion That the Mysteri
Gus Detonatlon Was Caused
by a Huge Bomb

New York, Sept 1S.-Thirty-six per-
sons are known to be dead. FIVE others
are missing and believed to be Dead
and more than 800 persons are known
to have been wounded In an explosion
between the United States subtreasury
building and the office Of ]. 2. Nor
gan b Co NJ Broad and Wall streets.
The damage to the great buildings Is
estimated at S1.0OO,OO0
The Morgan building appeared
shambles and part Of the front Of the
subtreasury across the street was torn
away. N
After hours of investigation, city
and federal officers and William ].
Burns said they had found evidence
TO justify the conclusion that the mys-
teriOus detonation wos caused by a
rhuge bomb loaded with 7. N. T. (trini-
fcctoluol), titan Of explosives, re-en-
<oroed with iron slugs crudely manu-
zac.ured from oid-fashioned tenement
s.ouse window weights.
The weight Of overwhelming EVIL
dence caused the authorities to give
over their earlier theory that the ex-
plosion was caused by an accident TO
dynamIte-carrying truck. Every
available detective and department of
Justice agent in the city was set to
the task Of ferreting out the band Of
anarchists believed responsible for the
outrage.
Scattered bits of the truck and the
horribly mangled form of a roam horse
were found in the street after the ex-
ploslon. while rude bomb slugs were
found in Wall street. in adjacent thor
oughfares and embedded In the walls
of the Morgan and other edifices,
which were pitted as by shrapnel
bombardment.
At the morgue, where there were 36
mutilated bodies, including those Of
four women and one boy, Chief Medi-
cal Examiner Charles N. Norris said:
''In several Of the bodies we found
parts Of iron, such as might have been
made by breaking up sash weights.
There is no doubt that bomb was the
cause Of the explosion
Evidence gathered by the depart
ment of justice indicated that the plot
ters. In an effort to carry out numer-
Gus radical threats of forcible DEM
onstration against the house of Nor
gan. carefully manufactured hum
dred-pound bomb, loaded II on truck,
either hired or stolen, and drove their
deadly burden into the financial dis
trict.
William ]. Burns. house detective
for J. P. Morgan & Co., declared that
he is certain that the explosion was
by design. Mr.. Burns said;
"A bomb caused the explosion. There
is not the slightest doubt about this.
might be closer to the truth perhaps
II l said a wagonload of bombs.
"From my investigation / am GER
tain that the bomb was in the wagon
which was destroyed There is no
other reasonable theory.
"The pieces Of window weights
picked up In the nearby Office build
ings. where they had been hurled by
the explosive. could have no other
connection with the disaster than to
be parts Of the bomb and used as its
projectiles by some one who had
echemed 70 do the greatest possible
damage that could be imagined"
= The bomb, he believes, was brought
20 the corner In a wagon which was
abandoned by the four men who
brought II. II was composed Of a high
explosive and had window weights for
,misslles-thus It was merely a mobile
high explosive shsIl Qf greater dimen.
sions probably than any that were evet
thrown IN the world war. 49,
~ One other theory Is offered. That
: ds the explosion was an accident oc
casioned by the collidlng Of a wagon
load OF explosives with an automobile
A messenger boy declared that q few
minutes before the explosion he saw
the wagon that carried the explosives
abandoned ut the curb in front of Nor
gan's by four men. These four, he said
were Joined by two others. This de
scription. however. 1t is pointed ont
would ft the theory of either acciden
or design.
Every reserve Of The New York DO
lice force is in the area. battalion
of federal troops from Governor
island is standing guard with fxe
bayonets.
One OF the injured was Junius Sper
Ger Morgan, son Of ]. p. Morgan
Joyce. a clerk in the Morgan hous,
was killed.