17 Sep 1920
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
1
New York stock and curb exchanges reopen at the usual morning hour after a Wall Street blast. Officials report bonds valued at and 2 574 shares of stock missing, held by messengers from several brokerage houses.
A noon Wall Street explosion devastates the Morgan Building and Sub Treasury district. The blast, officials report, kills at least 31 and wounds over 200, with damage over 1 million dollars. Police evacuate, ambulances arrive, and crowds panic in Manhattan.
Relatives flood morgues as New York officials identify 31 dead and more than 200 injured after the Wall Street blast. The list includes William T. Joyce of Morgan & Co and Colonel Charles Neville of the U.S. Army Quartermaster depot, with numerous other victims ranging from bank clerks to messengers and anonymous workers.
New York September 16 The financial district resembled a battlefield with bodies of people and horses on the pavement and large blood blotches on white wall surfaces. Glass shattered and debris littered streets as the Morgan Building and the Sub Treasury suffered severe damage. Soldiers and police ordered fifty street cleaners to clear streets for ambulances.
New York reports that victims were torn by blast and burning gas blistered skin as the midday rush filled the three way junction of Broad Nassau and Wall streets. Officials say the timing at 12:01 made casualties worse and the dense crowd amplified the disaster.
Chicago police set a cordon around the Chicago Stock Exchange and Board of Trade in the La Salle Street district to prevent a possible repeat of the New York blast. Chief Garrity said he had no evidence of a conspiracy and acted to be safe.
Washington plans a multi agency investigation into the New York financial district blast. Attorney General Palmer orders inquiry with Justice Department FBI Treasury Secret Service Post Office and Agriculture experts coordinating.
New Jersey license 24.246 car found near the Morgan building amid the blast. Jerome H McKeen of the Bronx identified by an accompanying license. the owner Beedon of South Orange later located at Wall Street office. Beedon said his car had no explosive, he delayed reporting, and offered no connection to the incident.
Nicholas De John a 23 year old broker’s messenger on Broad Street saved a bundle of bonds worth $15,000 during a Wall Street explosion by grabbing the loose roll and tucking it away before he was wounded and carried off.
A letter warning of a Wall Street explosion was dropped at the French High Commission on Broadway. Investigators pieced torn note after the blast, while detectives sought a former employee of the commission connected to the message. A Toronto postcard claimed a similar warning weeks earlier, but a broker called it a joke.
Washington reports Burns declares a recent dispatch warned of a new bombing wave by radicals. He says today's financial district blast was a premeditated attack, not an accident, and involved his agency's Eastern clients.
An official of the Treasury, talking on the phone to an Equitable Building office in New York, heard an explosion in Washington. He described the interruption as sounding like a large book closing and later learned the explosion occurred nearby.
The J P Morgan & Co bank and the Sub Treasury annex suffered severe damage on Wall Street. Windows, glass domes, and interior marble were shattered, with extensive loss to plate glass and office furnishings. The Sub-Treasury entrance grill was torn and a wall scarred by missiles, while nearby shops sustained broken windows and debris.
New York reported recalls the 1915 Morgan summer home shooting by Frank Holt later identified as Erich Muenter. He claimed the Washington Senate room bomb was to pressure Morgan against munition shipments. The piece also recounts the 1891 Sage office bombing by Henry F. Norcross and Laidlaw’s brave protection of Sage.
A New York explosion shattered windows up to the twentieth floor of the forty story Equitable Building. Soldiers formed a line to keep pedestrians safe from falling glass as fragments dangled from hundreds of sashes. A Sub Treasury clock stopped at 12:00, marking the time.
Red alerts and hospital drills followed a blast in Manhattan as Chief Lahey and investigators tie the explosion to a large TNT device. Morgan firm executives and staff, including Junius Morgan, faced shock while witnesses cited a wagon marked explosives. Lamont questioned premeditated attack. no explosive permits found nearby.
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