Evening star., 1920-09-18
|53BLAST VICTIMS
| STILL IN HOSPITALS
Scores Being Sent Home as
They Recover From
Bomb Injuries.

NEW YORK, September 1S.-The
New York Times today says: Fifty
three victims of the Wall street ex-
plosion were still under treatment in
the various hospitals last night. A
number. it was said, had been trans
ferred from Broad Street and Nolun-
teer hospitals to private institutions
in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Scores
of them were sent home.
One OF the callers at the Volunteer
Hospital. in the afternoon was d
young woman who was searching for
protner who had not been home all
night: She was making the rounds
Of the hospitals, she said. and
though she had heard a REPORT that
he had been killed, hope grew as at
each place she was told his name did
not appear in the list of patients.
At the hospitals one gained fuller
knowledge. of the sorrow that came
into many a family as a. result of the
explosion. Particular sadness was at
tached to the death of Catherine
Dickinson of Elmhurst. Recently she
lost her father and brother. and she
was the comfort Of a widowed mother.
She might have escaped, but she took
her lunch hour an hour earlier on
THURSDAY in order to help another
girl get position. She was stand
ing at Broad and Wall streets watt
ing for the appearance of her friend
when she was killed.
In the excitement at the morgue on
Thursday night the relatives of Rob-
ert Westbay. an eighteen-year-o -old
messenger who was killed. ordered a
wrong body sent to their home 1t
was not untN the body had been taken
home and more careful examination
made that 1t was found wrong
Identification had been made. 1t was
returned to the morgue. In the mean
time the body of the boy had been
where he died. 1t was identified and
later taken to the family home.
MOrgans Resume Business.
J. P. Morgan & Co. apparently the
target at which Thursdays explosion
was aimed. resumed business yester-
day. after being closed for only the
three business hours from noon, the
time of the explosion. to 3 o'clock, the
time honored' hour for the closing of
banking institutions.
Large sheets of canvass had been
stretched across the windows, from
which every atom of glass had been
blown. The glass dome In the main
Banking room OF the building was in
closed with scaffolding. The glass in
4, the partitions of the various cages
| along the counters was missing.
| The staff Of the banking house were
| all in their places. With the excep-
| tion OF Thomas Joyces killed outright
by the explosion. and John A. Dono-
hue, one of the executives Of the for
| eign export department.. who died at
Bellevue Hospital i'm the morning, and
two or three Of the more seriously in
| 1ured, every member or empleye Of the
firm was in his or her place. from Henry
P. Dawson and Thomas Cochran, two OF
j he no . n ORG vrtV<
the time Of the explosion, and Junius
Spencer Morgan, son of J. p Morgan,
who refused to permit minor cuts to
keep him from work, to the humbIest
messenger and fling clerk in the
firms employ.
Bank Looks Like Hospital.
| Upon Mr.. Lamont's invitation, a
group OF reporters entered the build
ing and were shown the evidences of
damages and the efforts made to re-
pair it. 1t was a novel sight to enter
one of the biggest fihancial institu-
! tions In the world and see dfgnified
executives at work with heads
ltypewriters and adding machines with
one disabled hand, to be greeted by
special watchmen. whose eyes and
poses were the only parts of their
features visible, to see everywhere
persons looking like patients in the
lconvalescent ward of an Army hos
pital and to feel at the same time the
calm yet steady impulse of /. great
business organization running with
Iunimparied smoothness
Like all other buildings within the
limits Of the effect of the explosion,
the Morgan building was under heavy
police guard. Uniformed patrolmen n
surrounded the building. and half a
dozen detectives in plain clothes kept
in the immediate vicinity all day. No
one was admitted unless he could
show that he had business
Mr.. Dawson. who was shooting on
his Long Island estate on Thursday,
discovered how strict a guard was
! kept when he tried to enter the build
| ing in hurry early in the afternoon
| A big policeman, probably from some
remote precinct, tried to stop the
banker. until several employees rushed
aeut and toldwho he YVES. .