Explosion in New York Financial District Kills 29
A noon blast in Manhattan’s financial heart injures hundreds and kills 29. Morgan Bank and Sub Treasury suffer heavy damage as crowds flee amid shattered glass. Investigators weigh bomb versus wagon accident theory while troops guard the area and hospitals rush aid to the wounded.
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New York Financial District
New York
Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn
Sub-Treasury
Governor’s Island
The
Stock Exchange
Thomas W. Lamont
Henry P. Davison
Morgan
Morgan Firm
Wall Street Explosion Described In Firsthand Account
An Associated Press reporter recounts the New York Wall Street blast that shattered Morgan Bank and the sub treasury annex. He describes a mushroom cloud of smoke, burning wreckage, scattered bodies, and a terrified crowd fleeing the scene in the financial district.
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Sub-Treasury
Black Tom Island
United States
Wall Street
French High Commission
Broadway
Commission
Arnaud
Maurice Casengue
West 92d Street
Thomas W. Lamont
Charles Matthews
Lincoln Road
Brooklyn
Lamont
Matthews
Thram David
W. S. Pearce
Wal Street
David
Morgan Building
Broad Street
Exchange
Battery Ferry Landing
K’ Company
22D
U. S. Infantry
Fort Jay
Governor’s Island
J. P. Morgan & Company
New, York
Associated Press
America
Financial Center
New York
Wallstreet
River Tubes
Wal
Nassau
Broad
J.P. Morgan & Co Bank
Morgan
Morgan Bank
Financial District
Partial dead and injured list from New York incident
A long list details names and addresses of the deceased and injured. Included are William T. Joyce from J. P. Morgan & Co and Jerome H. McKean a chauffeur, with many others in New York, New Jersey, and nearby areas. The collection notes ages, occupations, and partial residences among clerks, bank workers, stenographers, and messengers.
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New Jersey
Morgan Buildinng
Jerome H. McKeen
Nelson Avenue
Bronx
Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of
D. S. Belden
South Third Street
South Orange
N. J
New York
William T. Joyce
J. P. Morgan & Co
Jerome H. McKean
Ludolph Portong
McCauley Avenue
Jamaica
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Lahey
William J. Burns Detective Agency
Burns
Sub
Treasury
Italy
Casenave
Junius Spencer Morgan
J. P. Morgan
Mr. Lamont
William Joyce
Thomas W. Joyce
Richard Campbell
Morgan’s
Broad and
Wall Streets
Dean
Charles Neville
West 44Th Street
New York City
Alfred Mayer
Joseph Aurebury
Sherman Avenue
Raymond Miller
Bernard J. Kennedy
Carolyn N. Dickinson
Elmhurst
L. I
Colin B. McClure
Yonkers
N. Y
Mark Drury
Charles Londrod
William Furman Hutchison
Garden City
John Johnson
Porter
Bank of America
Lewis K. Smith
Long Island
Albert Siegel
Glendale
Fred W. Thompson
Goodhaven
George Watt
Somerville
John Markle
Jeddo
Penn
A. B. Jessup
Worth Begley
Washington, D. C
Arthur J. C. Cole
North Arlington
Arthur Gathersole
Frank Stoba
Bergen Field
Raymond Reddington
New Monmouth
J. W. Riege
Or Ridge
Mt. Vernon
Martin Ellis
West New York
James L. Robertson
Bayonne
Harry McQuire
Jersey City
Paul Darkin
Hoboken
Jesse B. Baer
Burlington
William Folden
Freeport
F. Gelfair
Port Richmond
William Peterson
Bogota
John Kunkle
Crawford
Joseph Dickman
Plandome
Volunteer Hospital
G. B. Barnes
Joseph G. Cranberry
Robert Westday
West 24Th Street
Leo K. Drury
Washington, DC
Reginald Ellsworthy
W. Orange
William Foley
Englewood
Floyd Johnson
Cranford
George Luhrs
Ray McQuade
T. C. Peck
Nyack
Frank Vameck
Westchester, N
Elmer Diamond
Passaic
John G. Brownlow
Hillsdale
James Butts
Sam Diamond
Walter Dickinson