The Washington herald., 1920-09-17
7. E. Ellsworth, Aged 20,
Fatally Injured While on
Sightseeing Trip Through
Financial Lane. K.
Drury, Son Of Local
Banker Has Thigh Frac-
tured-L. L. Roberts Suf-
.fers Broken Leg

One washingtonian is reported
killed and three were injured in the
explosion at Wall and Broad streets
New York, at noon yesterday.
T. E. Ellsworth, 20 years old. son
Of Goodwin D. Ellsworth, of 124s
Girard street northwest, was re
ported dead last night at the Broad
Street Hospital, in New York. The
injured are:
Leo h. Drury, q years old, son of
Peter y. Drury. president Of the
Merchants Bank of Washington;
Lawrence L. Roberts, son of F. C.
Roberts. of the Home Apartments,
Seventh and X streets northwest
and Worth Bagley, not positively
Identified as a Washington man.
Drury's Thigh Broken.
Drury received a fractured thigh
and is now in a New York hos
pital, with his mother in attendance
Roberts suffered a fracture Of the
left leg, being struck by a falling
block from the building as he was
Hospital. New York. Parents Of
both men received telephone COM
munications from hospital officials
last night, saying they were Sc
riOusly injured but out of danger.
Leo Drury is employed as a loan
clerk in the United States Mortgage
Trust Company at Sc Cedar street,
New York. Details Of his injury
have not been received. He has
been in New York four months. Mr..
, Drury's father returned from a visit
to his son Wednesday night.
Drury attended school at St
Johns College in this city and
Mount St. Mary's College at EN-
mittsburg, Nd. He makes his local
residence with parents at 1921
Rhode Island avenue northwest
Had Just Left Building.
Roberts had just left the bank
building which was ruined and was
N the opposite corner when the
,xplosion occurred, according TO ad-
vices received by his parents last
hight. Roberts was employed by
he Newcomb Printing Company.
lie was employed by the Washing
ION star before going to New York.
Although Mrs. Josephus Daniels
1as a brother by the name of Worth
gagley, the name of one of the
Washington men reported injured,
she said last night that he is in
The Hague, Holland, where he is
naval attache. Mrs. Daniels said
he injured man is not a near reIa-
i've of the family. He could not
oe identified here last night.
Ellsworth is the son OF Goodwin
-. Ellsworth. employed in the office
, u the First Assistant Postmaster
e. Office Service.
Disaster Ends Vacation.
He had been spending his vaca-
ion in the Adirondack Mountains,
and left Saranac Lake in time to ar
rlEe in New York in the late fore
aOOn yesterday. He had planned to
pend few hours sightseeing be-
sore boarding a train.
Shortly after the explosion 4
newspaper man found a trunk check
the vicinity Of the explosion. He
Ient the check to a newspaper man
leTe, directing the local man to in
yestigate at Union Station. The
Nashin gtOnian found a trunk bear
.Rg check number corresponding
With that found in New York, and
GllswOrth's identity was established.
When the information was wired
Sew York last night, the message
vas answered with one announcing
hat Ellsworth had died during the
avening at the Broad Street Hos
Dital.
EllswOrth's father was in Phila-
ielphia last night and efforts were
made to communicate to him the
Iews Of his sons death. The young
nan's mother suffered a nervous
breakdown when she received the
-Iews.