Boston Evening Globe (Newspaper) - September 16, 1920, Boston, Massachusetts p Sunday Order them Read the in todays the Help Wanted columns to get good Read Unale Dudley VOL 78 THURSDAY 192018 STOCKS IN CENTER OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT NEW Sept mysterious disastrous in Its occurred at noon today in Wall killing more than a score of persons and injuring Office workers were just hurrying into the street for their noonday meal when a jet of black smoke and flame rose from the center of the citys great street of Then came a A moment later scores of women and children were blood on the Two minutes later nearly all the exchanges had Men had turned from barter to an errand of and there was need of Billion Dollars in Danger The spectacular explosion ripped from the across the street from the Morgan and within a short time sol diers from Governors Island and all the police reserves that could be as were placed around the Gov building in which was stored more than a billion dollars in metal and Banking also were placed under heavy and United States Regulars with were patrolling the The damage to the Morgan Build Ing alone was estimated at Minor damage to hundreds of other Call today with your Machinery and Yachts and Poultry and Pigeons and Musical Instruments Jor next Sun days Order the Sunday Globe in advance from your news dealer or Good Positions RESULT FROM THE ACCOUNTANCY AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GIVEN TO THE MEN AT School of Finance NORTHEASTERN COLLEGE BOSTON Opens zr Send for Catalog I GRANTS DECREE OF BACHELOR OP COMMERCIAL SCIENCE YOUR BOY If In the Huntingdon School Will be with men touchers of experience he will have bin work carefully supervised he will be in one of tho best equipped for allround of tho boy In New Preparation for all scientific business and technical Junior 4th Krado to 7th grade to 13th year opens HUNTINGTON SCHOOL 320 Huntington BOSTON It was would to tal at least Treated 200 Injured The Hospital announced at 2 p m that It had treated nearly 20 mostly for injuries due to the Mayor Hylan announced that he would seek to have the city offer a reward of for the conviction of any person who might have been responsible for a crime in connec tion with the Flash in Middle of Street Hiram a for Winslow a lawyer at 40 Wall told the police that the first flash of the explosion came from an automobile standing in the middle 01 the midway between the Sub treasury and the Morgan Build A wrecked automobile which was found at the scene does not that the explosion was from the inside of this Its a Newark named was found later safe Greatest Ever Offered In Boston NEW Sept cause of the explosion was was not hurt at Mr Bacon was slightly and so dynamite in the Police Commissioner Enright said that he had been informed by members of the Morgan Enright said I have just had a conference with Mr Lamont and Mr Bacon and Mr Junius Morgan of the firm of Morgan and they say that the cause of the explosion was most assuredly dynamite in ths On this score there could be no Mr Lamont DEAD AND INJURED IN THE NEW YORK BOMB EXPLOSION DEAD curb 50 Broad clerk In Morgans William Equitable Life Assurance Society Gar den L INJURED 256 Sterling Brooklyn fractured right Sopor of Strong Sturges X 858 Grand ped ler injured In side and internally 19 Fox Bronx numerous of Post X 40 Broad st hand cut Hospital Ernest 18C8 Madison Brooklyn internal 201 West st head and hands cut Volunteer Hos Fred 1C New Haven L I cuts on arms and 1454 Myrtle Brooklyn head and right arm Injured Volunteer Ulysses Sr deputy Injured by flying father of William Injured was young Mr none of them I found that one man in the Morgan building was killed His name was Frank one of the most able investigators of the Department of declared after arriving on the scene that it was his opinion that not a bomb but a had been responsible for the NO PROMINENT FINANCIER WAS KILLED BY EXPLOSION NEW Sept far as could be learned two hours after the the disaster did not take the life of any prominent Although the front and sides of the Morgan banking house were no member of the firm was seriously Morgan is in but at the time of the blast Thomas Eliot D wight Morrow and George all directors of the were in con Police Commissioner Enright said that after conferring with members of the firm he had learned that Mr Bacon was slightly and also Junius Spencer another member of the Several employes were injured and one according to Mr FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF All first quality with the factory serial adjust ment guarantee of 6000 miles 25 for 00 Buy as it will be to maintain these record low prices n lo Telephone 4125 Olen till M EVENING DIVISION Boston University REGISTRATION UNTIL SEPTEMBER 18 AT 1 Classen Begin September 20 Sec n 7 In an accountants office at 52 Wall He said he had parked his which contained no In front of the building and behind an other Beldon added that he knew no more of the He said he hud delayed In calling his office be cause he did not think any one would connect him with the He said he would return to Newark Flames Five Stories High The explosion came at the time when the canyons of lower New York were thronged with hustling office intent only in crowding their way into Those making their way down Wall st Irom Broadway suddenly saw go up in front of them a cone of flame and It came from the very center of Wall and Broad be tween the Morgan Building and the It mounted so high that awnings on the fifth floor of many skyscrapers were burned to a Then there was a roar that was heard far up Manhattan and hundreds of persons were hurled to the Cries arose and on Wall paved with broken there gushed forth streams of I age was taken a New Jersey auto more fit for battlefield than Ameri cas financial One man was sen to sit brush his hand over his and then top ple over dead into the Near him were found the bodies of three and further on more lying side by side with the carcases of Men Rushed to Aid Hardly had the roar of the ex plosion ended when a rush for the financial district was made from all parts of the Thousands moved only by but there were others moved by other objects and nurses bent on mis sions of mercy and Secret Service men and soldiers ordered to protect They were told to run down bomb if bomb plotters there The first thing that occupied the attention of the Investigators were wrecks of a truck and automobile at the spot from which the blast was believed to From the wreck YEARLY CONTRACT FOR 5TON TRUCKS Large corporation wants 5 now 6ton trucks to Its surplus freight between Boston nnd other Special und equipment to match Wo will finance 70 of Answer by letter State if you drive or hire 10 James IF evening In and Struc tural Special In nnl now opens of Northeastern Boston Until liny YOU DONT THE BUY IF YOU BUY LOE quarterly 8 H payable Balane from Managing OFFICE ORGANIZATION A course on School of and BOSTON Mb The Globe Leads in Advertising Because of the Excellent Results it brings to its 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I 64 lowest last 58 I 82 percent I 3 miles The sun shone Wednesday for u 4 or percent of the possible which was The Temperature Today The thermometer at Spu records i Hie temperature ui u 8 m today 1910 ipin mobile license whose reported num ber corresponded with that Issued to Dunham a Newark pharma who came to Wall st on busi ness this Three Girls Among Dead Never in Its history has lower Manhattan witnessed such excite ment as prevailed Trading on both the Stock and Curb Ex changes was ordered suspended for the day a few minutes after the ex plosion and from then on lower New York forgot all its busi ness matters in attending to the needs of the injured apparatus and ambulances dashed through the crooked streets of the finan cial on which lay a covering of shattered glass and the broken re mains of men and Among the bodies were those of three terribly A police cordon was hastily thrown around the entire financial district GREAT DAMAGE TO MORGAN OFFICES working In Hun dreds were thrown to the sidewalk with the force of the ex and dozens of trucks and automobiles were pressed into service to carry away the Great Crowd Assembled Police hastily found difficulty in coping with the crowd of many thousand persons who tried to press themselves Into Wall that narrow canyon in which automobiles can hardly pass each other with Telephone service was shut off from many pub lic booths In the vicinity and all banking offices were placed under extraordinarily heavy when bearing the flocked to the tip of Manhattan Explosion in the Street Heads of the Fire Department on reaching the scene directed their eff forte toward ascertaining the cause and location of the The latter was difficult because of the shattered appearance of buildings near the Morgan but the con sensus of opinion soon was that the had lu the One marshal expressed the opinion that the explosion had been one of Coupled with this theory was the automobile which fig ured In other versions of the dis This automobile was report ed to have been in collision with a truck loaded with Many of tho injured were girls POLICE AT ONCE GUARDED BOSTONS FINANCIAL CENTERS On hearing of the explosion in New Supt Michael Crowley assembled all the available plainclothes special officers and many and detailed them to the financial The Boston Stock Exchange Building was surrounded by the police and important financial buildings were completely a fi o i u 12 m uu II II 70 1 71 p 71 a p 7S HE THOUGHT IT WOULD WEAR OFF A neglected cold often breeds Pneumo nia tt tt tho u void preventive have been for 2fi They Jo not tlm Night Sept 27 tor Pay 18 AFTER A BAD NIGHT Brixton Physicians Say He Had Less Rest Than for Several Nights Previously Collision Theory Believed An hour after the explosion oc the police were inclined to the theory that It had been caused by a collision of a trinitro toluol truck and an automobile on Wall between the Morgan the They pointed to the fact that a demolished truck was found at point near the wrecked The authorities switched their theory dynamite to because of the fact that there appeared no great hole In such as would have been blasted by the downward force of Hurt In Morgan Office Seventeen victims of the explosion were taken out of the side door of tho Morgan banking house at p United States Regulars from Gov Island arrived on the scene at for guard At doubt was east on ac cident theory when members of the bomb who had hastened to the expressed the opinion that a bomb had They addea that fragments of metal picked up on the street were being examined on Continued on the Second SLIGHTLY HURT JUNIUS SPENCER Slightly Injured by Flying STOCK MARKET WAS CLOSED ABRUPTLY Explosion Ended Session of Strength and Activity Trading on the Now York Stock Ex change came to an abrupt close about dealings being called off by Asst See Martin at the Instigation the governing committee Immediately atter the great explosion rocked build ings in the financial The quick of the 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