The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-16

ALL STREET EXPLOSION SCATTERS DEATH
AND DESTRUCTION ON. BUSIEST CORNER

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In the street, but there is no trace Of
the wagon, the horse is supposed
to have been drawing.
The explosion struck with the de.
Wasting effect of high explosive
shell. Windows for blocks around
were shattered.
Pieces Of human bodies were found
on window siIls, The sides Of the
Morgan building were marked as
though it had been subject to showers
Of she'll spIinters.
Every policeman available, soldiers,
sailors and firemen were hurried to the
scene. Emergency hospitals were es-
tablished and the injured hurried
away. At the Volunteer hospital one
hundred injured were cared for. They
included both men and women suffer
Ing from burns, severe cuts and bruis-
es. Most of them hadAen picked
up on the street. Others We're taken
from offices. Those to reach the hos
pitaI were bewiIdered to find them
selves in a hospital when they recov-
cred consciousness. The last they
remembered they were leaving their
offices for lunch. They had stepped
out into the street. Some remem-
bered binding flash and then all
was blank. -
J. P. Morgan is in Europe. Other
members of the firm were in their Of
fees, but none was injured. Junius
Spencer Morgan, son Of j. p. Morgan,
was cut on the hands by flying glass.
Three men and one woman empIoye
of the firm were reported to have
been killed.
TEN MANGLED EoDlEs.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-A United
Press reporter counted ten bodies on
the sidewalk at the corner of Broad
and Wall street at 1880 p. m.
They were covered with burap.
Apparently all were men.
Some of the bodies were very
badly mutilated. The police estimated
at this hour that not less than one
persons were injured
by falling glass.
WAGON LOAD OF INT.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Reports
1850 p. m. today Indicated that the
explosion which shook the New York
financial district at noon, occurred in
a wagon which was passing west
ward along Wall street in front of
the offices Of j. p. Morgan and Com !
eany. ....... ,
One theory was that It was a load
If TINT being taken to an excavation
on Pearl street. The police advanced !
The theory that the wagon was struck :,
oy an automobile. The wreckage OF /
an automobile was found in the street !
,ear the Morgan Offices.
Fragments Of horse were also .
'ound nearby. r..
The number of the automobile de-
'troyed by the explosion was 't24245
Y. j." The police asked the New .
Jersey authorities to identify it. t
NEAR MoRGAN's BANK.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Many per-
sons were njured-unconfirne re- g.;
,orts declared several kiiIed-and the /;
.ntire financial district Of New York !;
vas shaken at noon today by an ex-
,Iosion near the Offices of J. P. Nor !,
ian and Co, at Broad and Wall
streets. Il
The stock exchange closed business
or the day within a few minutes
fter the explosion.
The greatest confusion prevailed
n the region of the explosion for
,eary an hour. !:
1t was stated at the Morgan Offices
hat none of the Morgan partfs~1
vas injured. The hands of J. spen-
;er Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan,
we're cut by falling glass, It was
earned.
The intersection of Broad and Wall
treets at noon on any day is prob
,bly the most congested corner in
he world.
It was at the noon hour the exPio-
ion shook the entire lower section
f Manhattan, shattered windows J
throughout buildings in the, ,immedi-
tie vicinity.
Someone turned in fire alarm
nd the fire apparatus and ambui-
noes came dashina through the
-cat throngs which were pouring
rom the buildings.
Trading on the curb was discon-
nued for the day. Il
The explosion occurred in Wall
treet, lust east Of the intersection I
Broad, directly in front of the s
loraan Offices and between the Nor a
an building and the Assay office, C
,hich Is being reconstructed directly t
cross Wall street from the Morgan
ouse. When police cleared the t
ines twelve injured persons were +
trctchcd out on the sidewalk In front
the Assay buiIdinq, which ad ioins
ne United States sub-tre asury. {
In the excitement police and sur b
cons were unable to state whether
nv of the twelve were dead, or only I
endercd unconscious by the expIo- {
ion. They were all obviously very '
.riousIy hurt. {
In the center of Wall street be- I
veen the Morgan offices and the /