The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-09-23
BLAST KILLS Sc
IN WALL STREET
More Than $50 Other Persons
Are Injured by Mysterious
Explosion.
MORGAN FIRM MEMBER HURT
Federal Officers Find Evidence to JUS
tify Conclusion That the mysteri-
Gus Defamation Was Caused
by a Huge Bomb.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Thirty-six per
sons are known to be dead, five Others
are missing and believed TO be deau
and more than 800 persons are know
to have been wounded in an explosion
between the United States subtreasury
building and the office Of j. 7. Nor
gan & Co. at Broad and Wall streets
The damage TO the great buildings is
estimated at 81 100000.
The Morgan building appeared O
shambles and part of the front OF the
eubtreasury across the street was torn
away.
After hours Of investigation, city
and federal officers and William j.
Burns said they had found evidence
TO Justify the conclusion that the mys-
FERROUS defamation was caused by a
huge bomb loaded with r. n. T. ttrini-
trotoluoD, titan Of explosives, re-en-
forced with iron sugs crudely manu-
featured from old-fashioned tenement
house window weights.
The weight of overwhelming evil
dence caused the authorities to give
over their earlier theory that the eX-
plosion was caused by an accident to
q dynamite-carrying truck. Every
available detective and department of
justice agent in the city was set to
the task Of ferretins out the bnnd OF
anarchists believed responsible for the
outrage
Scattered bits of the truck and the
horribly mangled form of n roam horse
were found in the street after the eE-
plosion while rude bomb slues were
found In Wall street, in~udiacent thor
oughfares and embedded in the walls
Of the Morgan and other edifices,
which were ptted as by a shrapnel
bombardment.
At the morgue, where there were 36
mutilated bodies, including those of
four women and one boy, Chief Medi-
cal Examiner Charles n. Norris said
"ln several Of the bodies we found
parts Of iron, such as might have been
made by breaking up sash weights.
There is no doubt that bomb was the
cause Of the explosion"
Evidence gathered by the depart
ment Of justice indicated that the plot
tiers, In an effort to carry out numer-
Gus radical threats of a forcible dem
Onstration against the house of Nor
gun, carefully manufactured a hun
dred-pound bomb, loaded it on a truck
either hired or stolen, and drove their
deadly burden into the financial dis
trict
William J. Burns, house detective
for j. 7. Morgan & Co, declared that
he Is certain that the explosion was
by design. Mr.. Burns said:
"a bomb caused the explosion. There
Is not the slightest doubt about this
might be closer to the truth perhaps
If said wagonload of bombs.
"From my investigation / am Ger
tain that the bomb was In the wagon
which was destroyed. There is no
other reasonable theory.
"The pieces Of window weights
picked mp IN the nearby Office build
iDgs where they had been hurled by
the explosive, could have no other
connection with the disaster than 10
be parts Of the bomb and used as its
proiectles by some one who had
schemed 10 do the greatest posshle
damage that could be imagined"
The bomb, he believes, was brought
10 the corner in a wagon which was
abandoned by the four men who
brought IT. II was composed Of a high
explosive and had window weights for
missiles-thus II was merely a mobile
high explosive shell Of greater dlmon-
sions probably than any that were ever
thrown in the world war.
one other theory IL offered. That
is the explosion was an accident oc-
casloned by the coIlldng Of a wagon
load Of explosives with an automobile.
A messenger boy declared that u few
minutes before the explosion he saw
the wagon that carried the explosives
abandoned a.. the curb IN front Of Nor
CANS by four men, These four. he said,
were Joined by two others, This de
scription, however, It Is pointed ont,
would TT the theory Of either accident
or design
Every reserve Of the New York po-
lice force is In the urea. A battalion
Of federal troops from Governors
island is standing guard with fixed
b8yOnets
One Of the injured was Junlus Spen-
Ger Morgan, son Of j. T.. Morgan.
Joyce, a clerk In the Morgan house,
was killed.