Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-09-17
Total Dead to Noon Today
Was Thirty
I Four
OVER 200 ARE INJURED
Radicals Blamed For Outrage-Au-
thGrities Seek Perpetrators of DaSt
ardly Crime.
New York, Sept. H.

New Urk, Sepl. IL
THE blast in Wall street at noon
Yesterday was caused by an Internal
machine. This was established today
by the authorities of that city who
are now energetically endeavoring to
round up the perpetrators of the most
horrible and infamous crime IN the
history OF the country.
Revised figures up to noon today
show that thirty-four person are dead
from the explosion and more than 700
injured and many of the injured arc
in serious condition and may die.
Mayor Hylan has offered reward
of $4,000 for the apprehension and
conviction of the parties guilty Of the
outrage.
Cast:ron slugs made from, window
sash weights. which had been broken
up. were vollcyed in all directions,
one of them crashing through the
Skylight of the 45-story Equitable
Building. These slugs. together with
the fact that the explosion took place
at the very center Of the financial
world and at 1901 precisely, form
the basis of the generally accepted
theory that an internal machine, and
not an accident, caused the explosion.
Of the wagon. said by witnesses to
have been painted red. of the kind
used by grocerS 70 rdeliverics. which
was the engine of destruction. only
few fragments were to nc found.
Drawn by plodding horse. it was
seen coming up Wall Street from the
direction of the East river a few min
utes before II o'clock Some of those
who saw il declared that it bore the
name of manufacturer of explosives
1t stopped at the curb just about
the dividing line between the ASSAY
Office, where $900,000,000 in gold bul
non l. SlOEcu, anu ''iS 'u''tS S"""'
vaults. which hold d billion more. Di-
rectly across Wall street is the $a.-
100000 structure which houses the
Morgan firm. where in an Office on the
upper floor members Of the firm had
lust seated themselves with repre-
sentative of the coal operators to dis
cuss the strike in the anthracite fields
Half a block to the south. the riot
Gus cub market was Surging and
shouting in the roped spaces Of Broad
street. The bell Of Trinity sounded
noon and like an echo came the hell
which MARKS that hour in the curb
market.
While the latter still was Ginning.
! the explosion came. Buildings rocked
at the shock. A sheet of flame lcapcd
up that licked through windows shjv-
cred by the detonation. Then came q
mushroom Of smoke, the cOnvClutione
| of its under surface tinged with sui
phurous yellow For moment the
smoke canopy hung solidly above the
financial district Then il driftcd
away.
/ In the streets below all motion was
para lyzed for the moment. Three
bodies lay on the steps of J. +. Nor
ran and Co., Other huddicd forme
were Strcwn on both side of Wall
street. Bits of SmoudcrinG cloth
which an instant before had formed
part of the clothing Of men and wo-
men were blowing along the side
walks.
An upturned automobile which had
stood at the curb near the red wagon
with two women in it was blazing
furiously on the sidewalk. From ali
sides came the crash and tinklc of
falling glass. In a dozen office build
lincs persons who had been near the
windows were beating out flames in
their clothing and striving to stanch
the wounds glass shards had made.
Others. some of them powerful fin
anciers. were maveling to discover
that they had escaped scathelcSs. al
though their desks were Uttered with
Ibroken glass. their window sils scar.
red by slugs and the glass in the telc-
phone booth in which they happened
10 be lay in fragments at their feet
{ Although timed to explode at tht
moment when the activities of tht
word of finance are at their height
and placed at the very center of tha
,world, the Internal machine failed t