Evening star., 1920-09-16
POLICE HUNTING BOMB -THROWERS;
MANY REPORTS CAUSE CONFUSION
Call Sent for Troops to Guard Federal Funds Hospitals
Filled With Scores Of Wounded-Damage
to Building Put at 100000

NEW YORK September 16-A mysterious explosion, dis
its effects, occurred today in Wall street. kill
ing than of and nuring hundreds.
Office workers just hurryng the for their
MONDAY meal when of black smoke and fame from the
center of the worlds great street of finance
Then blast A later of men,
and children were lying covered pavements
Two minutes later nearly all the exchanges had closed Men
had turned from barter errand of there
need of it.
While the police toled for hours seeking the dead injured
trained Investigators trying determine definitely
whether explosion dropped
of the Office of j. p Morgan Co, whether automobile
dashng wagon loaded with explosives had taken its toll
Frank Francisco of the able investigators the
Department of Justice declared after arriving the that
twas his opinion that but collision had been
Office buildings blocks and deadly
missiles in all directions. ss;
The subtreasury was pas heavy police guard to
protect the millions of dollars gold silver and paper money
lodged in the great granite structure.
The efforts Of the police directed aiding the
injured and the dead At u 40 fourteen bodies
lying the sidewalk and others reported
been taken away BY volunteer workers.
GIRLS BODIES FOUND
Among the bodies were those of three girls terribly mutt
police hastily thrown nan-
ca district when thousands hearing the explosion Aocked the
tip of Manhattan Island Police IL 35 had fifteen dead
Many of the injured girls working IN Office buildings
Hundreds of persons thrown the sidewalk with
of the explosion, and dozen of trucks and automobiles
pressed into service to carry away the wounded
Little information obtanable from Morgan
J. p Morgan himself is abroad.
One fire marshal expressed the opinion explosion
been Of dynamite Coupled with this theory was the
bile reported to have coded with
mite.
Heads of the fire department. however, reaching the scene
directed their efforts toward ascertanng the
explosion The because of the shat
tered appearance of buildings the Morgan Office
thortes inclined to abandon their theory explosion
had occurred either the Morgan office the stock e
change Consensus of opinion 125 that the bowup had
occurred in the -
emergency to Governors Island from which
heavy detachment sent to New York guard the
treasury and aid the police. ~:
WINDOWS IN DISTRICT SHATTERED
All windows in the financial district were smashed to atoms
of the firm badly by flying glass officials of the COM
pany denied first that bomb exploded Morgan
building.
Great excitement prevailed the financial district and police
were rushed to the Crowds kept back and
difficult whether the bo-up Moreans
the stock exchange Several injured
the sidewalk IS
At 215 the report that exchange had closed for
the day confirmed The board of governors ordered
closing minutes after the explosion occurred.
1t equally impossible hour after the explosion
to determine either its location
were held back by the police.
1t reported however that shortly before noon an auto
mobile with Morgan Offices
that when Morgan detectives approached the one
alghed and either accidentally purposey dropped ap
peared to be bomb. - :
Occupants of skyscrape looking down Wall street told
another declared thev
had the it. These specators
advanced the theory that the bomb- bonbhad been
timed
This version differed from the first regards the two
Continued a.