The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-09-17

New York, Sept. 16-A mysterious
disasterous in it's effect, oc-
CURED at noon Thursday in Wall
street, killing more than score of
persons and injuring hundreds.
A reporter of The Associated Press
making his way down Wall street
from Broadway suddenly saw go up
in front of him a cone of flame from
the center of the worlds great street
of finance.
Then came blast. A moment later
scores of men, women and children
were lying, blood covered, on the
pavements.
Two minutes later nearly all the
exchanges had closed. Men had turn
ed from barter to an errand of mercy
and there was need of it..
While the police toiled for house
seeking the dead and injured, trained
investigators were trying in vain to
determine definitely whether the ex-
plosion had occurred from bomb
dropped in front of J. P. Morgan & Co..
or whether an automobile dashing
into wagon loaded with explosives
had taken its toll
Frank Francisco, one of the most
able Investigators of the department OF
justice declared after arriving on the
scene that it was his opinion that not
bomb plot but a collision had beer
responsible for the blast which rock
ed skyscrapers tore the fronts from
office buildings for blocks around ant
scattered deadly missiles in all direc
tions.
AS far as it could be learned tw
hours after the explosion, the disaste
did not take the lives Of any promir
ent financiers.
Although the glass in the front
sides and roof Of the Morgan bank
ing house was demolished, no mem
ber of the firm was seriously injured
j. p. Morgan himself is in Europe
but at the time of the blast Thos. W
Lamont, Eliot c. Bacon, Dwight c
Morrow and Geo. Whitney, all direct
ors of the company were in consulta
ton.
, Police Commissioner Enright sai
that after comforting with members o
the firm he had learned that Mr.. Ba
, con was slightly injured and also Jun
ius Spencer Morgan, another officia
of the company. Several employees wer
injured and one killed.
Mr.. Enright said one of the member
of the firm assured him that the eX
!, plosion came from without the build
ings and was no doubt in the stree
: Mr. Enright said
81 have just had a conference wit
Mr.. Lamont and Mr.. Bacon and Juniu
Morgan of the firm of j. p Morgan
Co., and they say that the cause O
he explosion was most assuredly dyna
mite in the street. On this score ther
could be no doubt. Mr. Lamont wa
not hurt at all. Mr.. Bacon was slight
, ly injured and so was young Mr.. MOI
gan, but none of them seriously.
found that one man in the buidin
: was killed outright. His name wa
; Joyce"
Banking houses were placed unde
heavy guard and United States regu
ars with fixed bayonets were patrol
ing the streets in the explosion terri
tory.
: i The streets were thronged all morn
ing in the vicinity of the explosion.
There was a roar that was hear
from up Manhattan Island and hun
dreds of persons were hurled to tn
pavement. Cries arose on Wall stree
with pavement and broken glass ther
gushed forth streams of blood NOR
fit for a battlefield than America
! financial center.
One man was seen to sit up, brus
his hand over his eyes and then top
pie over dead into the gutter. Nea
him were found the bodies of thre
women and further on more bodies, ly
ing side by side were the carcasses O
horses.
Hardly had the roar of the explos
ion ended when rush for the finan
cial district was made from all parts o
the city. Thousands came, moved onl.
by curiosity, but there were other
bent on missions of mercy, and polic
secret service men and soldiers or
l'ders to protect property and run down