Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-09-17

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ment shortly after Fire Commits
sioner brennan had reported to.
Mayor Hylan his belief that. a bomb.
was responsible for. the disaster
and the police had begun to swing
TO the bomb theory as opposed to
that of collision between a powder
wagon and an automobile.
No Room for Doubt.
There il absolutely no doubt
that it was a bomb, sa., cs.:ef
Flynn. An important development
in the last two hours has convinced
US of this. The bomb was apparent
ly placed by a person who was with
In four blocks Of Wall and Broad
streets when the explosion occur
red"
Certain at last Of the cause Of the
explosion, federal agents gand city
police increased ehe search for the
driver of wagon drawn by ona
horse which was blown to pieces
No trace of him has yet been
found.
g# The theory Of the Investigators
Is that time bomb was placed on
the wagon and that the driver hur-
ried from the scene just after ar
ranging for the explosion to occur
at noon.
six expert chemists attached to
the bureau Of mines of the depart
ment OF the interior arrived az ~.
lice headquarters this afternoon
from Washington and assisted in
reconstructing metal fragments be-
.ieved to have been part of bomb,
CloclxwOrk Discovered.
4. Discovery of parts of clockwork
In tfic Wfeckage, and announcement
by experts that trinitrotoluol or
picric acid was. used In the bomb.
IL there was one. have sent detec-
tives and department Of justice men
on thirty leads pointing to bomb
plots and radical activitieA
More than $50 pounds Of broken
sash weights and other metal frag.
merits have been collected by the
fire department at the scene Of the
disaster and turned over to the po.
lice, Commissioner brennan said.
At police headquarters 1t was said
the first task would be to assemble
the fragments in an effort to recon
struct the bomb and determine
whether it was made by skilled
hands or by novice.
Death List Grows.
Three names were shifted this
morning from the list of those in
jured to the death column. They
were John Donohue, Brooklyn ac-
countant; John w. Weir and Miss
Margaret Fisher of Brooklyn. They
died inp hospitals. This brought the
revised list of dead to 81.
A piece of metal, presumably
from a bomb, and an iron slug
weighing about a pound were found
by U. S. Grant, deputy assistant
treasurer. on the roof of the sub
treasury building this morning.
Fire Chief Kenlon and Chief
Brophy, of the bureau of combus-
tibles, conferred at city hall this
morning with Mayor Hylan., They
presented reports on what they be-
lieved to be the cause of the ex-
ploslon.
A scene of an entirely different
nature from that of yesterday in
front of the sub-treasury was on
the program for today. Sons OF the
American Revolution, assembled
for a rally at noon on the steps of
the government building to cele-
brate constitution day.
Palmer Aids Probe.
Washington, Sept. 17.-Attorney
General Palmer and Francis p.
Garvan, assistant attorney general
in charge of the governments anti
radical campaign, left here today
for New York to direct the ifvesti-
CATION of the explosion in the H.
nancial district there yesterday.
It was stated at the department
of justice that the federal govern
ment's inquiry would be directed
largely to determining whether the