Terror in New York Financial District Explosion
Reported in the Financial District scene of terror where a blast wrecked Morgan offices at Broad Nassau and Wall Streets. Red Cross volunteers rushed aid, while investigators and police pursued leads amid debris and reports of a bomb plot. Clerks, stenographers, and bystanders faced injury and panic as the building collapsed and streets filled with casualties.
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New York Financial District
Red Cross
Broad
Nassau
Fll
Il Cross
Wall Street
Bmas J. Reilly
Distress and Relief Committee of
Morgandin
Perth Bay
New Jersey
Scores
T. Leake
Afury Department
Washington
Morgan
J. Leake
Ras Employes
Morgan Firm
C. Murphy
Brooklyn
Financial District
Wall
Nassau Streets
Enright
Broad Street
Wood
Broad Street Hospital
William J. Burns Detective Agency
Burns
Explosion Shatters Lower Manhattan Financial District
Eyewitness accounts describe mangled bodies and glass strewn across Broad Wall and Nassau as chaos ensues in the financial district. Fire units and ambulances rush to the scene while police cordon off the area and reports put dead at 15, unofficially 30, with the sub treasury under guard.
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Lower Manhattan
Lower New York
Financial District
United States
Wall Street
Trinity Church
United States Sub-Treasury
Treasury
Broad Street
Exchange Place
Explosions in Wall Street City Center Shocks Nation
A massive blast in lower New York near J P Morgan & Co and the sub treasury injures hundreds, destroys the Morgan building front, shatters windows and damages nearby banks as officials debate whether a dynamite charge or a bomb caused the catastrophe. Police and guards circle the district while li nea of inquiry focuses on street blast location and timing.
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J. P. Regan & Co
Frank Francisco
Department Justice
Hellbronner Company
Manhattan Bank
Merchants’ National Kh
Bank of America
Bank of New York
Central Trust Comany
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company
Union Trust Com| Y
Manhattan Life Insurance Company
Knickerbocker Trust
New York Stock Exchange
New York Trust Company
J. Forgan & Co
Mills Building
United States Trust Company
Atlant Mutual Life
National City Bank
Chase National Bank
Astor Court
Johnston Building
Broad Exchange
Cotton Exchange
Coffee Exchange
Edison Building
Standal Ol
Seaboard National Bank
Bowling Green
Washington Building
Produce Exchange
Muii Exchange
Consolidated Exchange
Battery Park
United States House
Curb Market
Morgan
Sub-Treasury
Junius Spencer Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Department of Justice
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Enright
Lamont
Bacon
Junius Morgan
J. P. Morgan & Co
Mr. Morgan
Joyce
Governor's Island
United States
Lower
New York
Manhattan Island
Wall Street
America
Financial Center
United States Assay
Stock Exchange
Treasury Building
George Washington
Burns
Sub
William F. Doyle
Bureau of Combustibles
Bankers' Trust Building Panic At Wall And Nassau
Bankers' Trust building at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets witnessed panic as a crowd surged and women were trampled during the disturbance.
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Bankers’ Trust Building
Wall and
Nassau Streets
Explosion Spurs Police Action Around Financial Districts
Chicago police placed a precautionary cordon around the stock exchange board of trade and La Salle street buildings. In Boston the Wall Street blast caused a near halt in brokerage activity as reserves blocked access to exchange areas and banking districts.
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Chicago
Chicago Stock Exchange
Board of Trade
la Salle Street
Garrity
Boston
Wall Street
Exchange
Wall Street Stock Exchange
Covington elder over 90 attempts self harm
Ben F. Camp a Covington resident aged over 90 attempted to stab himself in the face and head in his North Covington yard. A physician treated him, saying the wounds were not serious and he would be fine.
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International News Service
Covington
Ben F. Camp
North
Jack Johnson Sentenced For Mann Act Violation
The Missoulian reports Jack Johnson will serve one year at Fort Leavenworth for Mann Act violation. The article hints at a potential comeback through whipping pacifists and returning to the movies.
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Jack Johnson
Fort Leavenworth
Jack
Primary returns show Thompson candidates lead in Illinois
In Chicago and downstate Illinois, early primary tallies with 4,717 precincts counted place Oglesby and Small ahead for the Republican governor race. Democratic governor and U.S. senator contests show similar lead changes as results roll in from Cook County and downstate precincts.
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Chicago
Downstate
Thompson
Cook County
Ilinois
Oglesby
Small
Lewis
O’hara
McKinley
Smith
Burke
Waller
Seattle
Louis FP. Hart
Roland H. Hartley
United States
W. L. Jones
Col
W. M. Inglis
W. W. Black
Edward T. Mathes
Tincher Invited to Dine with President Harding
Hutchinson Kan Congressman J N Poly Tincher of Kansas Seventh district says he received an invitation to dinner on November 2 1921 with President Warren G Harding at the White House. Both men were born on November 2 and plan to celebrate their birthdays with Harding if he is elected. The date also marks Senator Jim Watsons birthday from Indiana.
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International News Service
Hutchinson
Kan
J. N
Poly
Tincher
Kansas
Warren G. Harding
White House
Washington
Senator Harding
Jim Watson
Indiana
Harding
Ton Family Reunion Near Chicago Draws 700 Attendees
The twenty-fifth annual Ton family reunion at Calumet Grove near Chicago brought about 700 descendants of John Ton, who settled in Roseland in 1849. Adrian C. Ton of Roseland was elected president of the Ton family association for the coming year.
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International News Service
Chicago
Ton
Calumet Grove
John Ton
Roseland
Ill
United States
Adrian C. Ton
Ton Family Association
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