Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-09-23

A man thought to be either G. B.
Barnes or Joseph C. Cranberry.
Robert Westday. 16, messenger boy, 1872
| West oath street. New York
Bernard ]. Kennedy. 30. messenger, en-
ployed at 115 Broad street
Miss Carolyn y. Dickinson. 40. Elm
hurst. J.. !.
Colin B. Mcclure. %, Yonkcrs, y. Y.
Miss Mary Drury. %. stenographer,
Brooklyn.
Charles Londroct. about %, employed
at % Broad street. address unknown.
! william Furman Hutchinson, about 30
insurance broker, Garden City, y. Y.
! John Johnson. IS, porter. employed at
Bank of America. A Wall street
Joseph Schmt. 80 clerk Second street.
Bayside, N. Y.
Joseph Aurhury. 81. married IS Sher-
man avenue New York city.
Raymond Miller. address unknown.
BIG DAMAGE TO BANK
The banking house of I. p. Morgan &
co., and the recently completed annex to
the sub-treasury building received the
greatest amount of damage from the ex-
plosion. All the windows in the Morgan
building. facing on both Wall and Broad
streets were blown out and with them the
wire protection by which they were faced
on the inside of the structure. The glass
dome ceiling of the building was also
broken and many Of the steel supports
to the glass bent and twisted.
The interior finishing of the Morgan
bank is of marble, much of it imported
from Italy. and arranged in designs and
patterns selected by the founder of the
bank. This marble is blackened by smoke
but not beyond the point of restoration,
it was said. Much Of the handsome office
furniture was cut and bruised by falling
glass.
At the sub-treasury building the en-
trance with its steel grill work was twist
ed and torn. The stone facing to the
doorway, and the front of the building
up to the height of the second story was
SCARED and Clipped by flying missiles.
At the old sub-treasury SIMULTANEOUSLY
associated with Revolutionary history
the carved stone columns in front of the
building are Clipped and SCARED in
many places.
PLATE GLASS FRONTS RUINED
The greatest general property loss,
however, was to plate glass For blocks
in every direction the tall office buildings
had every window blown out. The dam
age to glass is the greatest since the
explosion on Black Tom island Just prior
to the United States entering the war.
Several stores on Wall street were also
wrecked by the explosion \ haberdash-
cry shop in hall basement adjoining the
sub-treasury annex was almost stripped,
windows, show cases and stocks being
swept to the rear of the room and piled
in an .ndiscriminate heap.
NONE OF MORGAN FIRM INJURED
Five members of the Morgan firm were
| in ha htfII hn Of No anri
dent. Thomas w. Lamont, Dwight w
Morrow. Elicit c. Bacon and George Whit
tey We're in a conference on the second
floor of the Broad street side Of the Nor
gan building. They were shaken up by
the force of the explosion. but all es-
capped without injury.
t Junius Spencer Morgan. son of ]. p
1 Morgan, head of the firm, who Is now
= abroad was at his desk on the lower
t floor when the explosion occurred. II
= shattered the glass partitions of his Of
l flee. showering him with fragments. He
received slight cuts on the hands anC
arms.
I THE explosion threw the conference
0 upstairs into disorder" Mr.. Lamont said
4 we were Jared by the conclusion and
rather excitedly ran down to the mair
, floor, where the most confusion prevail
Z ed. There We're about 70 employees who
= were more or less injured and those
0 clerks, who had miraculously escaped in
Z jury from falling debris. were courageous
1 ly devoting their attention to assisting
those who were less fortunate.
= VALUED EMPLOYE KILLED
"Onc Of our valued employees. William
Joyce, was killed. lie was the son of
G. Thomas W. Joyce who has been in our
, employ for 80 years and who was himself
, badly hurt. All our large windows on the
, first floor and some on the second floor
: were blown In. The ,ffice will be ready
, for business tomorrow morning"
3, There were between 400 and 500 employees
. in the Morgan building at the time OF
q the accident.
y ACCIDENT THEORY URGED
Despite the police theory that the acct
I dent was caused by the explosion OF Al
Internal machine, several eyewitnesse'
o reported that "a wagon bearing the sigr
explosives was seen near the Morgan
= building a few moments before the bias
:, occurred. This led to the theory, which
= was still held by members of the Nor
n gan Arm tonight. that the explosion wal
r caused by a collision between the 'ex
o rlosive-laden wagon and another vehicle
@ From what we have learned, | an
+ inclined to believe that the explosion
was due merely to an accident" Thoma
w. Lamont of the Morgan Arm declared
! tonight. There are no reasons tina
- we can find that would lead to a premedi
tated bombing. | can see nothing to b.
gained by such an act. Circumstance
" of the occurrence surely do not poin
to an attempt to wreck the Morgan
-. Offices.
- IF anybody really plotted destruction
, OF our building, i believe that we woul
y have been sent the warning that Is usua
. | In such instances, And we have no
y been threatened IN any manner. be
leve the explosion was due to nothing
more than an unfortunate accident to
!, dray loaded with explosives which / ar
y Informed had arrived on the site of tn
;, Stock Exchange building addition acros
- the street from our Offices"
NO PERMITS ISSUED
i An investigation by representatives o
the fire commissioner. however, shove
|. that no permits had been issued to-da
n for the transportation of explosives 4
tho area surrounding Broad and Wa