Arizona republican., 1920-09-17
TRepublican A. p. Leased Wirel

NEW YORK. Sept. 16-"It was crash out of a blue sky-uneXpected, death dealing, both which in q twink ling turned into shambles the busiest corner of Americas financial center and sent scurrying to places of shelter hundreds of wounded dumb stricken white faced men and women-fleeins from an unknown danger.
 It was reporter for the Associated Press who was an eye witness of to- days explosion in New. Works finan- ciaT district. who thus described the scene.
 II was just turning into Wall street from Broadway" he said when l first felt. rather than heard. the explosion. A concussiOn of air similar to that experienced by a passenger on the sub. way when a train dashes into one of the under-riyer tubes was felt lis force was sufficient to all but throw me off my balance. Instantly follow ing the concussion came sharp re- sounding crash which shook to their foundations the monster Buildings fac ing either side of Wall street. With the roar of the blast came the rattle of falling glass and from the junction of Wall, Nassau and Broad streets-a block distant-screams of injured men and women
 "I lodged into a convenient doorway to escape falling glass and to reach q telephone and call the office. Looking down Wall street later I could see aris- ing from the vicinity of the sub treasury building and the J. r. Mor- gan & Go. bank a mushroom shaped cloud of yellowish, green smoke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked by dart ing tongues of flame.
 T reached the scene a few moments before the explosion took place. The smoke had partially cleared in the street, but in the Morgan building there was belching forth through the broken windows clouds of dust and turned automobile was blazing furi- ouSly and nearby. close to the body of a dead horse, was another fire, evi- dently from a pile of wreckage.
 Almost in front of the steps lead ing to the Morgan bank was the mu- tilated body of man. Other bodies most of them silent Tn death. lay near by. As I gazed horror stricken at the sight, one of these forms, half naked and scared with burns started to rise It struggled, then topped and fell life less into the gutter.
 "On the opposite side of the street were other forms. One of them was that of a young woman, her clothing torn and burned away. It was moving not in an effort to rise, but in the agony Of death l started toward her but as I did she became still. Glancing down I saw that the pavement was disCOlored with blood. Tn plain sight. within a radius Of 90 to 50 feet were nine lifoless forms. "The body of the dead horse in the middle of the street showed plain eVi- denCe of having been in Nery close proximity 10 the scene of the blast. It was literally torn to pieces.
 The windows Of the Morgan build ing were blown out and through the openings could be ceen the smoke blackend interior Of what but few moments previous had been one of the handsOmest banking rooms in tho city. ' Opposite. the entrance to the newly completed white exterior of tao sub treasury annex was battered and torn as if having been subjected to a bonn bardmeDt of machine gun fire. The doorway with its massive steel crilI- work was shattered and the stone sur rounding the door cracked and battered away
 By this time the crowd was press ing in. held in check by the hastily gathering policemen. At the entrance of the Morgan bank was a uniformed guard. apparently half dazed but sticking to his post and holding back those who sought to enter.
 The crowd was strangely quiet
 and over # seemed to hang a feeling Of awe and horror. At the commands of the police 1t moved and fell back silently, On the steps of the ' old sub treasury building the ] spot where years ago stirring scenes