Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-18


 We began to do good business with the noon crowds. Then some one sang out to me in a Scotch accent: Pull your horse up, buddy
 T looked at him and his wagon.
 He must have come from New Street because was watching the cop on Broadway at the time. My partner was doing the selling. If he came down Wall Street, I couldn't have missed him. When I pulled out of the way he went straight down Wall Street and about minute later was knocked down and don't re- member anything more until I came to in the hospital. The wagon was a bum work wagon with dark, dirty red paint, something like dirt wa gon and about twice the size of those used by street cleaners. It was a rusty red color and was drawn by an old brown horse.
 Wore Working Clothes
 The driver was a dark complex toned, unshaven, wiry man, probably 35 or 40 years old, and dressed in working clothes and a dark cap. He appeared to be about five feet SIX inches tall. He had dark hair"
 Miss Rebecca Eppstein, a stenogra- pher in Broadway brokerage firm, told the authorities she saw a red dish wagon" of the "open truck" type, being driven east in Wall Street a few minutes before the ex- plosion happened. She said the wa gon contained either boxes or bar rels covered with a white. powder and that red flag flew from the rear of the wagon.
 Pulls Up To Curb
 When it reached point about opposite the Morgan bank and the assay office," she said, the driver pulled up at the curb and stopped. He then got eff the seat and walked west on Wall Street toward Broad way. I had reached the Equitable Building when the explosion occur red. I was knocked senseless. I be- lieve I would recognize the driver if | I saw him. He was laboring type, | about forty years old and was dress ed in a suit of brown c;eralls. They 1 were spotted with the white powder I saw on the boxes or barrels in the wagon"
 Examination of ShrapneI
 Examination of shrapnel found em- bedded in the bodies of some of the | dead and of fragments removed in surgical operations on the injured | has added weight to the belief that the explosion came from an internal machine and was not accidental.
 An official conclusion to this effect will be filed Monday by Dr. Otto A. Schultz, assistant medical examiner attached to the district attorneys of | flee, he said tonight.
 Dr. Schultz examined the bodies of several of the dead and operated up- on some of the injured. Dead in many cases, he said, was due to per forating wounds from pieces of met al directly associated with explos- i've matter"
 Buried in Flesh
 I1t luSlSltu lhCy lWClt nOI Poi Lo OL an automobile or wagon.
 Tn his porations, he said he ob- served fragments of metal buried in the flesh of the wounded. Many of the slugs were about the size of a walnut, he asserted.
 The city today offered $10000 for leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons for the explosion, and !, $500 for information leading to the of the owner of the wagon in which the explosion is { known to have occurred. The pre- 'erred accident insurance company also offered s10,O00 reward for in- leading to the arrest and conviction of the guilty party or par ies.
 To Relief of Sufferers
 The brokerage firm of Daniels and today sent to Mayor Hylan check for $25O asking him to use { as a nucleus for fund to be raised or the relief of sufferers in tn di- aster. The letter points out most of he injured were clerks and stenogra- hers and other in moderate circum- tances.
 The regular September grand jury which began it's investigation at the rder of Judge William H. Wadhams f the court of general sessions, was instructed to divide its inquiry into wo phases; first to determine wheth- r crime has been committed, and econd, whether the disaster was ue to criminal negligence. Judge yadhams declared it was apparent rom early reports that the explosion 5as due to one or the other.
 Grand Jury Gets Busy The grand jury went into session i'm lediately and was advised as to the egal phases and scope of it's prospect ve work by Assistant District Attor- ey Talley. Expert chemists who are