Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-18
FINANCIAL CENTERS
OF NATION GUARDED
AGAINST EXPLOSIONS
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R0AlNSI EATLUSlUNS
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parts of the city. Thousands came,
moved only by curiosity, but there
were others inspired by other mo-
tives-physicians and nurses bent on
missions of mercy and police, secret
service men and soldiers ordered to
protect property and run down bomb
plotters, if bomb-plotters there were.
Debris Collected
All pieces of clothing, including
shreds of cloth and battered hats,
were COLLECTED by the police.
| The financial district was roped
off and placed under heavy guard
while the work of Identifying VIC
| Tins was under way. Some bodies
were SO mutilated that hope of
identifying them virtually has been
abandoned. At the Broad street hos
pital alone from $50 to 200 persons
were admitted and one intern stated
that six of these mad died from in
Iuries. So crowded was the hospi-
tai that tn endured were laid on
floors and in Railways. =
| When the work of compiling a cas-
ualty list was begun it was found
that William T. Joyce was the man
killed in the Morgan banking house.
He was a clerk in the securities de-
partment. His father, P. w. Joyce,
who has charge of gold shipments
Jured in the head. It 2:3O o'clock
| two and one-half hours after the ex-
ploslon the streets outside the po-
lice lines were black with people,
while virtually every window was
filled with on-lookers. Bits of jag
| ged glass continued to fall from
windows, injuring those on the
| streets, although not seriously.
There we-a 500 policemen in the dis
trlct in addition to the three COM
panles of United States infantrymen.
When the hospital began to over
flow President SiIkworth of the Con
sol1dated Stock Exchange, offered
the use of the building for emer-
gency purposes. -,
Details of Damage
the big bronze window fittings of
the rne Onlted States assay building,
the street from the Morgan build
ing, were in many places wrenched
from their positions and stood a tan
gled dangling mas sof metal Like
wise the heavy bronze office fittings
] In the Morgan bond department were
warped and indented as if from ma
chine gun fire.
At O'Clock the police were Gov.
erlng with sawdust large pools of
blood in the street.
SI@AkpSU6 occurs
When the explosion occurred the
throngs in the streets nearby made a
frantic effort to escape. fearing a
second blast. The widest hysterta
prevailed, women fainting and men
piugglng onward in a precipitous
tush 10 saI,ety Those who were NOT
cut by falling glass were trampIed
upon In the general stampede.
A messenger found near the scens
OF the explosion $4,000 in negot1a-
PIE bonds and three 81 bills. The
ldLter were Scorched.
Or. Wood. Of the Broad street bos
p1tal, gave a statement to newsnarer
men, In which he said one Of the m
!uTed' man with both legs burned.
tod him he saw a powder wagon
oearlng a red flag collide with an au
12moolle near the curb outside the
blast. the
NEW NV YORK. Sept. 17.-william
j. Flynn, chief of, the bureau Of in
yestigation,. department. of iustic..
aecIared this afternoon he was posi-.
I've mat a bomb had caused the ex-
rtoslon IN Wall street yesterday
which took a total of So lives. in
Jured about 200 persons and caused
p n1f2Eiay damage running into the
There is abs olutely no doubt that
last two hours has convinced l." ne 'n NE
this. The bomb was apparentIv
PR1aced by person who was within
sour blocks of Wall and Broad
| streets when the explosion occurred"
Chief Flynn made his announce
ment shortly after Fire Commission
er 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.
Search for Driver
Certain at last of the cause of the
police increased their search for the
driver of a wagon drawn by one
horse, which was blown to pieces.
No trace of him has yet been found
Inc theory of the investigators is
that a time bomb was placed on the
wagon and that the driver hurried
from the scene just after arranging
for the explosion to occur at noon.
While half dozen official investi-
cations were under way members of
conferred in regard to the disaster.
Then they issued a statement to the
effect that they had no knowledge
| as to the cause or motives of the
| explosion Several members of the
| firm have received verbal and writ
ten IN regard TO the
explosion but they say that it has
not thrown any light upon it.
Fire Commissioner brennan report
ed today to Mayor Hy1an that the ex-
plosion in Wall street yesterday.
which killed "a and injured 200, evil
IDENTIFY was caused by a bomb.
The financial centers of Americas
| big cities from coast to coast are
private sentries posted to guard
against repetition of the mysterious
explosion taht rocked Wall streer
yesterday:
More than $50 pounds of broken
sash weights and other metal frag-
ments have been collected by the
tire department at the scene Of the
disaster and turned over to the po-
lice Commissioner brennan said.
| -, AT police headquarters, it was said
| the first task would be to assemble
the fragments in an effort to re-
| construct the bomb and determine
whether it was made by skilled hands
or by novice.
| The explosion. according to the of
fetal investigators, apparently &C.
Cured in a horse-drawn. covered
: wagon at point almost opposite an
entrance to the United States assay
! office"
The Investigators found that the
wagon had a red running gear and
| that there were no markings on the
! harness other than to show it was
| for one horse.
The small pieces of window weights
with which the Internal machine had
been loaded had been fused by an
intense heat" indicating they had been
cut into slugs by high powered
gas burner.
wagons Accounted For