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Show DEADUSTGROW& I j NEW YORK Sept 16. Warnings that radicals planned B i a renewal of bombing outrages were sent recently to all eastern east-ern clients of the William J. Burns Detective agency according accord-ing to a statement today by Mr. Burns who said he was convinced con-vinced that today's explosion in the financial district was a premeditated attack and was not accidental. Chief of Police Inspector Lahey reported late this after-noon after-noon that he had found evidence to justify the conclusion that the explosion was caused by a huge bomb loaded with ! T. N. T. trinitrotoluol reinforced with iron slugs fashioned from window weight bars. , Police headquarters reported at 5:30 o'clock this even-ing even-ing that it was definitely known that at least nineteen people were killed and ninety-seven injured in the explosion. Com-plete Com-plete casualty figures, police said, would show at least ten i more killed and several score more injured, most of them by , flying glass. ; NKYV YitUK. Sept. 16. I5y the 'Associated Kress.) A myaterloua explosion, ex-plosion, disastrous In its effect, occur-red occur-red t noon today In Wall street, killing kill-ing more than a score of persons and injuring hundreds. Office workeis were Just hurrying ilnto the street for their noonday meal when a Jet of black smoke and flame j rose from the center of the world's jgieat street of finance. ! Then came a blast A moment later scores of men. women and children were lying. blood covered, on the I pavements. Two minutes later nearly all the jexchang'S hud closed .l- n had turn-led turn-led trom batter to an errand of mercy -and there was need of it. While the police tolled for hours seeking the dead and Injured, trained I inv estigators were trying In vain to i determine definitely whether tin-plosion tin-plosion had occurred from a bomb dropped m front of the oTflce of J. P. Morgan and company, or whether an automobile dashing into n iv.on loaded with exj.'.uM.es h.-ul taken its toll. COLLISION BELIEVED SOLLTIOX. ETrenk l-'ranclsco. one of the irrost I able Investigators of the department ol Justlie. declared after an .vine on the scone thaflt was his opinion that not a bomb plot but collision had I been responsible for the blast which ! rocked skyscrapers, tore the glass from j windows iu buildings ror blocks around and scattered deadly missiles I In all directions. As far as It could be learned two hours after the explosion tho disaster 'did not take the Uvea of any promi- ftent financiers- Although the gla.i In the front, s' li-. and roof of the .Morgan banking house was demolished, no members of tne firm were seriously Injured J. V. MORG VN I Pi I I KOP1 J. r Morgan himself Is In BurOPC, j but at the time of the blast. Thomas W. Lamont, Kllot ' Huron, Liwlght C Morrow and QeorgS Whitney, all directors of the company, were In consultation. con-sultation. Police Commissioner Knright said tiiat after conferring with members of the firm he had learned that Mr. Bacon Ba-con was slightly Injured und also Ju- i. lus Speneei Morgan, another official 0 the company Several employes were injured and one killed. Mr Enrlght quoted firm members as stating that the blast assuredly came fiom the street ami not within the building. The spectacular explosion tipped windows from the sub-treasury across the street from the Morgan office end within a short lino- s.ddlers from Governor's Gov-ernor's Island and all the police reserves re-serves that could be assembled were! placed around the govern mint builil- ii. X In which was stored more than a j billion dollars In metal and nqtea Hanking houses also were plSl sd under un-der heavy guard and I'nlted States regulars with fixed bayonets were patrolling pa-trolling the streets Id A K HEARD FOR Mill 5 The explosion came at a time when the canyons of lower New York were thronged with hustling office workers Intent onb In crowding Iheli way into lunch rooms nearby. There was a roar that wns heard fur up .Manhattan Island ami hundreds of persons were buried to the pavement. Orles arose und on Wall street, paved with broken glass, there gushed forth streams of blood more fit for a battle- fUld than America's financial center line man w is seen to sit up. brush1 his hand over his eyes, und then tOPpll over dead Into the gutter Near him wire found the bodies of three women and further on more bodies, lying side by sldo with tho carcasses of horses.' Hardly had the roar of the explosion explo-sion ended when a rush for the flnan-Oial flnan-Oial district was made from all p.nts of tho city. Thousands came, moved only by curiosity, but there were others oth-ers Inspired by other motives--physicians and nurses bent on missions of mercy, and police, secret service men ntd soldiers ordered to protect prop-ertjr prop-ertjr und run down bomb plotters. If bomb plotters there were. WRECK Ol VUTO EX Mlt D, The first thing that occupied the at- H t' ntlon of the investigators were H wrecks of a truck and automobile at H the spot from which the blast was H to have come H Federal Investigators summoned from Washington centered their atten-tion atten-tion on these I Some advanced the theory that the H automobile had collided with a powder J wagon anil the du Font company was H ' asked immediately to find out wheth- H ' er any of Its vehicles had been in the H v Iclnlty at the time. This was done H 'after construction men had expressed belief that the truck was of the H type used in delivering explosives. H Other Investigators sought to run H : down reports that a bomb hud been H exploded in front of the .Morgan build- gggggfl I IME OF Bli Wi si SP1CIOCS. Assistant District Attorney Tally aft-1 aft-1 er visiting the scene, announced his belief that the cxploon could not have H I" en to an accident. H He announced also that his staff H 'would question all witnesses of th I explosion. He said that one thing that led him to the conspiracy theory was B the time of the explosion. This was fixed by a clock In the sub-treasury buldlng, which stopped at 12:01. 1 "The factors that lead me to this belief," said Mr. Tally, "aiv that the H time of the explosion was at 13:01 in . when probably the greateot in mage could have been done, mil tbe H at ion of the explosion was mHway I between the Morgan offices and I he I new I'nlted States treasury' building." wonting un tne onsoirac b 'they picked up afk remnants of tho I wrecked automobile ano. wagon, ovci 'going so far as to remove th shoes from s Acad horse In order to estsbj llsh th Identity of the vejhlcles and their owners. M w Y DODIE8 Ml Til, Ti:i The financial district was roped off land placed under heavy guard -rhlle the work of Identifying victims was und II way. Some bodjes were so mil-tllated mil-tllated that hope of identlfyng them VTtUAlly bus he' n abandoned. At the Broii d street hospital alone from laO 00 persons were admltUd and one Intern stated that six of these had died from Injuries. So crowded was il t!ie hospital that the injured were laid on floors und Ir hallways W illiam T. Joyce, a clerk, was the man killed in the Morgan banking house His father, P. W. Joyce. In , charge of gold shipments, was badiy H Injured In the head. H Two nnd one-half hours after the H xploslon the streets outside the Dollce H Imes w en- black with people and win- H ApWS were filled wth onlookers. Bits H of glass continued to fall. Injuring 1 those on the streets. There were 500 H policemen in the district and throe companies of I'nlted States Infantry- DAMAGE REACHES MILLIONS. The Consolidated Stock Exchange was offered for emergency purposes when hospitals were filled. Although It was impossible this aft- ernoon to estimate the property dam- H age accurately, it was believed the fig-ure fig-ure would reach I2.tion.ooo The new I'nlted Stutes assay b tlld-Ing tlld-Ing also was damaged. f , J Workmen this afternoon were en-deavorlng en-deavorlng to repair the stock exchange und It was said tho board of gover-resume gover-resume business tomor- row morning. In cleaning up the debris detectives found in the street close to the slde- n front Of the entrance to the 1 new sub-treasury' building a hole. I Lba ll ten Inches deep and throe In dl-ameter, dl-ameter, The theory was advanced thai this hole might have marVed the exact location where the explosion occurred The entrance to the subtreasury. as on Page B Dead List Grows; H $2,500,000 Loss; Sleuths at Work H (Continued from Page One) 9M well as the lobby Into which tho door opens, was wrecked. Mot only was the L--------V Iron door framing torn out. but great ggggggggV sections of the stone fencing were --------H and cracked Th cn-at col H umm of granite which ornament thc front of the old treasury bull. ling,. be- which stands the st.Uue of George Washington, were scarred ind H dented by pieces of flying debris or i H metal BBBBBBBBBB Among the injured was Alvlrt W. H Krech, president of the Equitably H Trust company. He was struck, by H flying glass when sitting in his office on the first floor of a building ftcar the explosion. After being treated at a hospital for cuts on the face and 1 H went home. H Mayor Hylan announced that he Laaaaaaa would seek to havo the city offer a H reward of $10,000 for the conviction H any person who might have been L--------I responsible for a crime in connection H with the explosion. H Windows of the forty story Equlta. , I ble building were shattered as high up as the 20th floor. Soldiers estab-around estab-around building lest pedestriajis be Injured by g)a&, H which this after afternoon was dang- ling in Jagged pieces on hundreds o( H sashes. H M V Bl HM D. I Some of those killed outright 4iad the clothing literally torn from their H and evidence that the street Was H filled with burning, scorching, flaming gas shown by the blistered and burned flesh. H Had the explosion occurred ten: ot fifteen minutes later the casualties would, no doubt, ben greater, as. the 1 12:01 was Jusl at the beginning of the H 'period when the office buildings were H pouring forth their thousands of em- ployes. j V hero the disaster occurred, the H Junction of Broad, Wall and NasBau streets. Is ncrhaps. during the noon j hour, the most congested point In.Jthe i Police Commissioner Ennght said H this afternoon that the police Were working on thirty leads In an endeav- or to ascertain the cause of the ex- OF IRON. IH "There are certain developments ! i which do not uphold the explosion of jH dynamite In a wagon as accounting for the wreck of the buildings." the com- I mlssloner added "My men have found slugs of cast iron all around the scene Uf of the disaster. They resemble weights of windows broken ln pieces, but they , I fgM did not cme from windows in the vicinity as we can find out'" Commissioner Enrlght said he had lH men v.orklng on th'- reported flight IH of two men between William and Han- I over streets and Wall street, who Wjsre jH Isnld to have leaped into an automo- bile ni l darted away shortly after rfho IH (xvdoslon. Il oo UllH |