The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-09-24
new YORK DISASTER
THIRTY-FOUR LIVES
TOLL OF EXPLOSION
Property Amounting to So, soc, 900 in
the Heart of New York Financial
District Destroyed.

the Heart OF New YORK E1nanclal
District Destroyed.
On the 18th inst. at 81 seconds
past noon an explosion occurred in
Wall street, which ratified windows
and rocked tie tall buildings and
sent terror to all the denizens of the
financial district which rules the
world.t A bomb, to all intents and
purposes, had been exploded by some
representative of the radical element
of anarchists who had been rantins
against the Morgan crowd" The
explosion took place from a rickety
old wagon drawn by a sleepy looking
horse driven into wall street and left
in front of the U. S. Assay Office and
between that and the banking house
of j. P. Morgan & Co.
The police insist that the explosive
was INT, the most powerful known,
and that it was a bomb with time
fuse attached left in the street
Whatever it was the explosion shook
the earth and the buildings for
blocks and filed the air with iron
slugs and glass, and after all the
scurrying from the buildings to find
place of safety and quiet fell over
the scene, dead and wounded were
found lying in %s15 wake of the explo-
sion.
Besides the destruction of some
$2,500,000 of property the death
list totaled thirty-four.
Lying queerly and awkwardly
huddled in front of the Assay Office
were six human bodies, or what was
left of them. In just as grotesque
sprawls four more lay against the
heavy wall of j. P. Morgan's. Down
in the gutter before the Schultz cigar
store, 36 Wall street, lay three more.
Trying to crawl five men and women
were. Hopping ON the steps of the
Sub-Treasury. A hand hung Imply
over the cornice that crowns the
high front of the Morgan office. A
woman, still alive (she was scream
ingl was jammed against the Assay
Office door. Later men went to her
assistance and fell back sickly be-
ao,,co boJ ~ n ,,a.
The wagon was said by two or
three witnesses to be red and to bear
the name of the DUPONT de Nemours
Company with red fags and signs
Explosives y Danger" Other wit
nesses differ in the color of the wag-
on and the signs.
The mysterious wagon, except for
two worn hubs, two sections of old
shafts, the whiffietree, bit of
twisted iron and few short straps
of what had once been harness, had
The tired beast that
had fetched 1t to Wall street was
dead near the curb. A. small motor
car lay on its left side near the south
curb, burning and rocking to and fro
like chair It's floor and sides were
intact. There had been no explosion
within its body. The concussion had
thrown the hood q dozen yards away
The engine looked as though a
sledgehammer had been used on it.
On the same curb, right side up
and burning but slightly, stood an
other car, smaller than the over
turned one, but not so damaged, de-
spite the fact it stood nearest the
two foot hole near the north curb
that popularly is supposed to be the
point of explosion. The wagon had
stood there. The horse was still
here.
The DUPONT de Nemours repre-
insist that they have no
horse drawn vehicles; that but one
If their explosive transports was on
he streets Thursday and that was in
he Bronx.
The only other company licensed |
o carry explosives through New
forks streets is the Carl A. Dittmas
oncern, and the police find that but
me Dittmas wagon was abroad
thursday. 1t did not go south of
street. The police add
hat there was no consignment of
Explosives of any sort due in the
owntown district None had been
rdered. None was expected. None
yas delivered.
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