The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-09-23
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
in new YORK
SHAKES FINANCIAL DISTRICT
or WALL STREET
Ihirly-fiye People Killed And AZ.
Least 200 Wounded-Damage Isl
Over ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Blame
Internal Machine For Terrific
Bolt.

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New York, September 16.-The
most CHASTITY explosion in New
York's history, occurring almost on
the stroke of noon, directly oppo-
site the marble palace that houses
the world famous firm Of J. P. Nor
gan & Go. at Wall and Broad streets,
today killed 20 persons and injured
nearly 200, many Of them seriously.
After hours Of Investigation city
and federal officials tonight declared
that they had found evidence to JUS
tify the conclusion that the mysteri-
GUS detonation was caused By huge
homb loaded with E n. T.-trini-
trotuluol- titan Of explosives-rein
forced with iron slsgs crudely manu-
featured from old-fashioned tena-
ment 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
a red dynamite carrying truck.
Every available detective and de-
partment Of Justice agent in the city
was set tonight to the task Of fer
riting out the band Of anarchists be-
lieyed responsible for the outrage.
A general police alarm was sent
out also for missing or stolen horse
drawn trucks. For, the authorities
believe, the plotteTs carried their
bomb, carefully set with a time fuse
designed to detonate it at noon. to
spot in front Of the United States
assay office by truck.
Scattered bits of the truck and the
horribly mangled form of horse
were found n the street after the
explosion, while huge bomb slugs
were found in Wall street. in adjacent
thoroughfares and embedded in the
walls Of the Morgan and other edi-
fices. which were pitted as BY a
shrapnel bombardment.
AT the morgue, where tonight
there were Is mutilated bodies, in
GLIDING those of four women and one
boy. Chief Medical Examiner Chas.
4. Morris said:
In 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 explos-
ion"
Evidence gathered tonight BY the
Department Of Justice indicated that
the plotters in an effort TO carry out
numerous radical threats Of fore
oble demonstration against the house
of Morgan carefully manufactured a
100-pound bomb, loaded it on a
truck, either hired or stolen, and
drove their deadly burden into the
financial district today.
The time clock was probably set |
for noon sharp" said Mr.. Burns.
whose agency has the task Of guard
ing the Morgan building. The plot
ters perhaps We're delayed by a traf-
1ic jam and were forced to stop
across the street from the MorgaN
building instead Of directly in front |
Of the edifice.
Pulling up behind an automobile
they probably leaped off the truck |
and disappeared. Two or three
minutes later came the explosion"
The explosion occurred almost ex-
actly at one minute past IL, for it |
was at this hour that the assay office
clock stopped. The street was crowd 4
ed In few seconds dead, dying |
and injured We're strewn about the
asphalt. Before the eyes Of thous-
ands reared a column Of smoke end
flame which lowered as high as the
fifth stories of the adjacent build
ings.
Then came a roar like the detono-