Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-16
THIRTY ARE DEAD,
200 OR MORE HURT
Sub Treasury and Adjacent Build
ings Damaged and All Of Lower
Manhattan Rocked 40 II by Earth
quake - Explosion in tho Street
Third Accident er Desisn-stock
Exchange Closed and Heavy Guard
Is Placed About Treasury Building
Explosion Occurred At Noon
Great Confusion Prevails.
sy Associated Press.

7 BY Annotated Press.
New York, Sept. 16.-A mys-
tsrous explosion, disastrous in its
effect, occurred at noon today in
wall street, killing more than
seors Of persons and injuring
hundreds.
office workers were just hur-
rying into the street for their
noon-day meal when q jet Of
black smoke and flame rose from
fhs center Of the worlds great
street Of finance.
Then came a blast. A moment
later scores OF mon, women and
children were lying, blood cover
%, on the pavement. Two min
utss later nearly all tho ex-
changes had closed. Men had
turned from barter TO an errand
Of mercy and there was mood Of
e
While ths police toiied for
hours seskiHo Tho dead and In
juIsd, trainsd Investigators wers
trying In vain 20 dstsrmine def
nitsly whether the explosion had
occurred from bomb dropped in
front of the office Of ]. p. Nor
pani q Co, or whether an auto
mobile dashing into . wagon
loaded with explosives had taken
its toll. 7
Frank Francisco, one Of the
most able Investigators of tho
department of justice, declared
after arriving on the scene that
Il was his opinion that not a,
bomb plot but a collision had
bssn responsible for the expIo-
sion, which rocked skyscrapers,
tore the glass from windows in,
office buildings for blocks around,
and scattered deadly missiles in
al directions.
The Broad street hospital an
nouneed at O'clock that It had
treated nearly 200 people, mostly
men, for injuries due to the ex-
pIosion.
The damage to the Morgan
building alone was estimated at
$500, 900.
Minor damages to hundreds Of
other buildings, it was expected,
would total at least $500,00
~ Associated Press.
New York, Sept. 16.-A terrific ex
losion which rocked all of lowe
Eanhattan occurred at noon toda
utside the offices of J. p. Morgan I
'o.. on Wall street. Several person
yere killed and many others injured
Junius Spencer Morgan son Of .
;. Morgan, and a member of tn
lrm, was badly cut by flying glas.
|fficials Of the company denied firs
sports that a bomb had exploded i
he Morgan building.
At 1915 the report that the stoc
had closed for the day wa
The board of governor
rdered the closing two minutes aft
r the explosion, occurred.
The list OF casualties, mounting a
xcited word passed from mouth t
louth. at 1890 was reported to hav
cached fifteen killed and fifty in
med. but an accurate count wa
in the intense confusion
1at swept thei financial district.
Eight Bodies in Street.
Newspaper men counted eight bod
IS on the street Nand the bodies O
sveral horses. The Morgan build
lg appeared shamble, and part o
le front of the sub treasury across
le street was torn away. The for
,-story Equitable building was
,cked by the explosion, as was al
lower Manhattan.
It was equally impossible an houl
tier the explosion occurred to de.
'rmine either it's exact nature OF
cation, for spectators were helt
ack by the police.
Man Drops Bomb in Street.
It was reported, however, that
lortly before noon an automobile
ith two men drew up in front o1
le Morgan offices and that wher
organ detectives approached the
achine one man alighted anc
ther accidentally or purposely
,opped what appeared to- be a. bomb
Unofficial reports have thirty dead
The United States sub treasury
opposite the scene OF
le explosion, was placed under
savy police guard to protect the
illions OF dollars in gold, silver and
aper money lodged in the great
.anite structure.
Junius Morgan said that he was