The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-16

Minor damage to hundreds of other
buildings. it was expected, would total
at least s500.0 600 more.
Windows of the forty-story Equitable
building were shattered as high up as
the twentieth floor. Soldiers eStab-
lished a dead line around the building
lest pedestrians be injured by glass
which this afternoon was dangling in
jagged pieces on hundred of sashes.
The exact time of the explosion was
fixed by i clock in the corridor of the
sub-treasury. It stopped at 1901.
Seventeen victims of the explosion
were taken out of the side door of the
Morgan banking house at 12:35.
Many Victims Wcre Girls.
Many of the injured were girls
working in office buildings. Hun
dreds of persons were thrown to the
plosions and dozens of trucks and au-
tomobiles We're pressed into service to
carry away the wounded.
A clerk employed by Morgan &
Company said this afternoon that four
employees of the Morgan house were
killed. One of these was a girl, he
said.
One hundred injured had passed
thru the volunteer hospital up to 1870.
The injuries varied from cuts to severe
burns and broken bones.
More than eighty injured had been
! received at two hospitals at 1:15
O'Clock this afternoon. At the Broad
street hospital it was stated that
three dead had been brought there and
fifty injured. Many of the injured
might be fatally hurt, it was said.
Between thirty and forty injured
were taken to the volunteer hospital.
Nurses from the Western Union hos
pitalsw were rushed to Broad and Wall
streets to care for the less seriously
! injured.
/ -, ,,-o,,,,v, .,-o- -a,or+a5 70 bava
died in an ambulance. Several women
were seriously hurt.
Over 200 Injured.
/ The police were unable to estimate
accurately the number OF dead. Many
wild rumors that more than 100 were
/ killed flew about, but there were no
! facts to support them. The police
/ believed. however, that more than 200
were injured OF cut by glass
The governing committee of the New
York stock exchange met and decided
that delivery of all securities will be
suspended until Monday, September
! 20. by mutual consent
! Business on the cotton exchange
came to practical stoppage, mem
/ bers having gone to their offices or to
: the scene of the explosion Efforts
! were being made to assemble a quor-
! um to consider the advisa bility Of clos
/ ing the exchange today.
/ Regular Troops On Guard.
Two automobile trucks loaded with
+ infantrymen from one of the New
J York stations arrived at the scene of
I the explosion just before l o'clock.
/ The soldiers helped tie police handle
Z the crowds.
/ So far as could be learned early this
/ afternoon. no member OF the New
! York stock exchange was seriously in
/ jured. Many employees of brokerage
and banking houses, however, on their
way to lunch when he explosion oc-
I Cured. were hurt by lying glass
With the arrival of one company of
/ United States regulars on the scene
another was Immediately ordered
from Staten Island. The soldiers pa
trolled the area about the Morgan Of
Z fices with fixed bayonets. Sailors
from all down town recruiting stations
were also ordered to the scene.
J. P. Morgan, it was stated. is out
of the city.
Great Burst OF Flame.
s All persons who were near Broad
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