The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-09-24
CAUSE OF BLAST
IN WALL STREET
STILL IN DOUBT
Witnesses Tell Police of Collision of
Powder Wagon With Automobile

New York, Sept. 2O.-With the an
nouncement by the police chat they
have located the powder magazine
in the city from which large quanti-
of explosives was removed without
permit, the solution Of Thursdays
Wall Street explosion seemed nearer,
since it is practically impossible that
access could have been had to the
magazine by any outsider.
The indications are stronger than
ever that the explosion was caused by
an accident to a powder wagon rush
lower New York. Supplementary
a red Dupont Powder wagon was seen
in the neighborhood Immediately be-
fore the explosion was given to the
police yesterday. About 10 different
witnesses of the tragedy have now
given the same story of seeing the
wagon. Two witnesses actually saw
the wagon collide with an automobile
and then heard the detonation.
Both the police and William j.
Flynn of the federal secret service
have seemingly abandoned attempts
to incriminate Alexander Brailovsky
and five Italians arrested, although
the department of justice has a
grudge against Carlo Tresca for
bringing to the attention of the Itali-
an embassy of the tragic suicide of
Andrew Salsedo, prisoner for weeks
in the department Offices here.
Flynn has announced that he does
not want Tresca, who addressed a
meeting of Italians here yesterday.
Interest centers on the arrival from
Montreal today of Edward Fischer,
alleged to have sent several warnings
of the disaster to friends in the neigh
borhood.
New York, Sept. 16.-Sixteen per-
sons are known to have been killed
by an explosion at Wall and Broad
streets, in front Of the offices of J. p.
Morgan & Co. and the New York
stock exchange today. The explosion
occurred just at the lunch hour.
The entire financial district was
shaken. Windows in the Morgan
building were shattered. Someone
turned in fire alarm and the fire ap-
through the great throngs at the in
tersection of Wall and Broad streets,
probably the most congested corner in
the world at noon.
It was at first reported that bomb
had been exploded in an automobile
standing at the curb in front of the
Morgan offices. Another earlier re-
port stated bomb had been hurled
into the Morgan Offices, while a third
report stated the missile had been
thrown on the floor of the stock ex-
change building. These reports were
later denied by the authorities, who
claimed the blast had been caused by
a collision Of truck loaded with TINT
and another automobile at the street
intersection.
The explosion was heard throughout
the down town section of New York.
Huge masses of debris were thrown
far into Wall and Broad streets. Dust
from the explosion rose high in the
air.
It was stated at the Morgan Offices
that no members of the firm were in
jured. J. Pierpont Morgan is said to
be abroad. The hands of J. Spencer
Morgan, son of Morgan, were cut by
flying glass, it was learned.
Police lines were Immediately
drawn. Automobiles were comman-
deered by the police to carry the in.
jured to hospitals.
The stock exchange was closed fol
the remainder of the day by the board
of governors a few minutes after the
explosion.
When the police cleared the line, II
injured persons We're found stretched
Wall street between the Morgan and
the assay offices, which adjoin the
United States sub-treasury, lay a
horse, tourn practically in two by the
explosion.
In all its varied history Wall street
sensation before. Brokers. bankers
probably never experienced such {
and clerks dropped work and rushed
into the street. Others cla,n5ercd up
stairs to the roofs. Lunchroor1s were
deserted as men and women jumped
from the tables and ran toward the
sound of the explosion.
According to a clerk on the scene
at the time, three men and n girl en-
ployed by the house of Morgan We're
killed.
AS an Indication of .hc expanse o.
the flames, which shot at least l0(
feet in the air, ambulance workers
found three girls in i banking house
1OC feet from the sidewalk, badl,
burned They had not moved from
their desks.
Two companies of egniar saltiel:
arrived on the scene and pat trnlled tn,
streets about the Morgan Office will
fixed bayonets.
Many of the wounded were bewi'd
ered when they found them elves i,
hospitals when they :ecrvcrl con
sciousness The last they rcmemhere,
was leaving their offices for lunch
Some remembers binding flash, the,
all was blank.