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Show v THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920. Tueiity-Kin- e ; expressed belief explosives. that the truck was of the type used in delivering ' - Dead, Huge ggsssHnnM - ' ; i Other investigators sought to run down reports that a bomb had exploded in front of the Morgan building. , Assistant District Attorney Tally, after frisiting the scene, announced hie belief that the explosion eould not have been due to J : ' ' an accident. ? H snaounced also that hi. staff would quaatlon all vltuan of th. explosion. eulty In eoptng with th crowd of many one Ho oald him to - - , c n lliliillllllllHIHHIlHlllllHI o ", that of combustibles, pointed out that the small hole found in the street near the Morgan 'offices and the widely scattered scars on the facades of near-b- y buildings also indicated that the blast was caused by a bomb rather than by an explosion of a' quantity of dyn' . ' ' amite or other explosives. T ' J. P Morgan himself is" in time of the bias the but at Europe, Thomas W- - Lamont, Eliot C. Bacon, Dwight- - C. Morrow ant George Whitney, all directors of the company, were in consultation. Police Commissioner Enright said that after conferring with members of the firm he had learned that Mr. Bacon. was slightly injured and also Junius Spencer Morgan, another official of the J company. Several employees were injuredand one killed., . ' -- FROM STREET. BLAST-CAM- E . thing that ltd tho conspiracy theory vai the Umo of the explosion. This was fixed by a clock in the tubtreasury building which (topped at 12 01. "The fact ore that lead me to this belief," said Mr, Tally, are that the time of the explosion was at p. n., when probably the greatest damage eould have been done, nnd the location of tho plosion was midway between the Morgan offices and the new United States trees ury building.' Working on tho conspiracy theory the police picked up nil remnants of the wrecked automobile and wagon, even goremove the moss from ing so far aa to a dead horse In order to establish the of tho vehicle and their owners. Identity 11-0- District Roped Off. The financial v district roped off while the ra under way. Some bodies were ao mutilated that hope of Identifying them virtually has been abandoned. At the Broad street hospital alone from 160 to 100 persona were admitted and one Interne stated that six of these had died from Injuries So crowded was the hospital that the e. Injured were laid on floors and la thousand persons, who triad to press themselves into wall street Telephone sendee was shut off from many publlo booths In ths vicinity, and all banking offloes were placed under extraordinarily heavy guard. A wrecked automobile, bearing a New Jersey license number, was found near tbs Morgan building, and ths police tried to establish whether this was the roaahlne which had figured prominently In ver sions of th disaster. Polio summon d 0 ambulances from Thirty-fourt- h street south, and all available pollc reserves wor mobilised. Tb financial district after th explosion presented a scon of demolition. In addition to tho bodies of human beings and horses scattered over ths pavement. groat blotches of blood sppasrsd on th whit wall of Wall street's office buildings Almost every pan of glass In ths vicinity was shattered, and besides s mantle of broken crystal th streets were covered with fragments of brick and stone blasted from tho bass walls of th skyscrapers. Several persons war hurt In the office buildings when hur tlsd through windows. Enright quoted firm members as stating that the bias; . Cafi for Troops. assuredly came from the street and not from within the building. Th call for soldiers from Governor's Vras T. William the mkn Island waa sent by Martin Vogel, assistJoyce, a clerk, The spectacular explosion ripped windows from the sub treas- killed in the Morgan banking house. Hit ant secretary of ths treasury,' who has in-- charge ef gold P. W, street within father, short a across from Joyce, the and the office, Morgan of th subtreasury. With all th ury in the charge shipments, was badly Injured window blasted out, Colonel William time soldiers from Governors island and all the police reserves head. Wlegol, chief of staff at tha military post, Two and hours after the 200 announced that - that could be assembled were placed around the government build infantrymen would the streets, outside the police trol tho financial dlstriot with fixed lime were black with people, and windows and with orders to layoneto day night, were billion which in more was than stored metal and filled with onlookers. a dollars in Bits of jagged allow no on to- ing, approach government glees continued to fall. Injuring those property. notea Banking houses also were placed under heavy guard, and an the streets Th were (00 policeHiram Davis, a chauffeur for Winslow men in the district nnd three Pierce, a lawyer at 40 Wall street, told United States regulars, with fixed , bayonets, were patrolling the of United States Infantrymen. companies 8. that ths first flash of th exThe Consolidated stock exchange was th polios earns from an automobile standing streets. offered for emergency purposes when plosion In tho middle of the street, midway bewere filled. tha subtroasury and tna J. P, MorThe explosion came at a .time when the canyons of Lower New hospitals this after- tween Although it waa imfcsstble A gan wrecked automobile found building, " noon to at the econo does not show, however, that Tork were, thronged with hustling office workers intent onlyj in accurately,estimate it was the explosion cam from Inside of, ths would roaoh 12,600, Th new United States assay building crowding their way into lunch rooms near by. Th terrific downpour of broken glass was damaged. contributed There was a roar that was heard far up Manhattan island also chiefly to ' the casualties. Workmen this afternoon Were endeavWhen ths explosion occvrrtd th throngs to and stock tho oring exchange repair and hundreds of 'persons were hurled to the pavement Cries it was said tho hoard of governors hoped In tho streets near by made a frantls rooumo business tomorrow morning. effort to escape, fearing a second blast. arose and on Wall street pved with broken glass, there gushed to The wildest hysteria prevailed, women It seomed probable, however, that fainting and men plunging onward In a forth streams of blood more fit for battlefields than Americas would ho impoeaibio to do ao before precipitous rush to safety. , Those who In cleaning up tho debris detectives were not cut by falling glass were tramfinancial center. ' . found In tho street close to tho sidewalk pled upon In the general stampede. Mr. , hall-wav- one-ha- lf " i KNOX 'V i X v i S- ' i Mon-day- n HATS N these days when men have more, than one hat at a time just as they have more than one suit or one pair of shoes, a light weight soft felt, like the one pictured, finds a favored place in the wardrobe of the man who knows hats. Comfortable on the days when a heavy hat is too warm, just after ' f the straw has been retired. A bit negligee but, stamped with that indisputable voucher A messenger employed by Block, Matho entrance to tho new sub treasury building a hole, about ten Inches loney ic Co foundIn ijeir th scene of th and throe in diameter, Tho theory explosion 242,000 negotiable bonds and was advanced that this hole might have three 21 bills. Th lattsr were scorched. ; One man was seen to sit up, brush his hand over his eyes and deep marked tho exact location Where ...the Red Ones Gets Busy. then topple over dead in the gutter. Near him were found --the explosion occurred. ' r The entrance to the subtroaaury, aa Thlrtr-flfield directors ef th Bed bodies of three women, and further on more bodies, lying side by wen as the lobby Into which the door Cross wer conferring uptown when the opens waa wrecked. Not only waa the explosion occurred. They wer Immeside with the carcasses of horses. Iron dbor framing torn out, hut great diately rushed to tho scene and rendered sections of the stone fencing were eplin first aid. tered end cracked. The great columns Hardly had the roar of the explosion ended when a rush for of of Large quantities surgical dressings, which ornament the front of and supplies w the financial district was made from all parts of the city. Thou- the granite, old treasury building and between medicines to Wall street, hospital and Dr. Thomas J. Reilly, which stands the statue of George Wash of director th distress and sands came, moved .only by curiosity, but there were, others in Inston, were dented by pieces of flying Kreneral of th Red Cross, Installed debris and metal. a dressing station on step of the spifed by other motives physicians and nurses, bent on missions Scenes of Excitement, Morgan building. T. Leake, an employee ef th trees-ur- y W, lower secret service has In Never men soldiers its and ordered history police, and, vto Manhattan witnessed such excitement t?Jof department In Washington who-wbomb plotters as prevailed today. Trading on both in th MorgtQ office whts th iploiion if protect property and run down bomb plotters, 1 the stock and curb exchanges wet occurred, said It seemed as though there were. ordered suspended for the day a tew bomb had dropped on the roof. First, he minutes after the explosion occurred, and said, there came a deafening blast and The first things that occupied the attention of the investiga- from then on lower New Tork forgot all then the giant glass doms in th center KEARNS BUnJUNO SALT LAKE. Crof Its business matter In attending to the of the Milldlng crashed to the floor, burytors were wrecks of a truck and automobile the spot from which needs of tho injured. ing scores of clerks and stenographers. Mr. Leaks declared ha wee knocked Ptre apparatus and ambulance dashed the blast was believed to have c6me. 4 through ths narrow, crooked streets of down and showered with glass but escaped uninjured. He said he stepped Over the financial district, on which, lay Federal investigators, summotfed from Washington, centered covering of shattered glass and th broken several employees of the Morgan firm. Their facee were covered with blood, he men and horses. of remains their attention on these wrecks. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Among tho bodies were those of throe aid, but most of them seemed alive. A mutilated. cordon gtrla, terribly police hastily thrown around th antlr Walls Are Shaken. district when thousands, hssrlng th exJohn Markle of Jeddo, Pa., said to he flocked there. Some advanced the theory, that, the automobile had collided plosion, of coal operator, was In tha Mor- - ran who waa killed, was a clerk to solve tbs mystery Of tho explosion in tho Injured wor girls working a wealthy Many geneiVl declined to disThaattornsy causes offices accompanied by A. B. Jessup n thfirm, securities department. H Was s Now Tork'a financial dlstriot and to safe- cuss office buildings. Hundreds of person fan chief of th explosion, possible with a powder wagon, and the Du Pont company was asked im- In wars thrown to ths sidewalk by th fore occurred. engineer, when the explosion on of P. W. Boycs, who has been em- guard government property from similar holding, with Other offlolals of the deThey were in conference with ployed by the firm in an executive ca VJMtULff doaena truck and of of th and explosion, from New Tork partment, that reporta out find of to whether vehicles its had been.jn the automobiles were several business man, including Walter pacify for many years, and who was Inmediately any In an effort to bring to justice any did not yet warrant advancing a theory. pressed Into service to Dickerson. c . wounded. jured ths Or The slightly, for away the at person the carry parson time. responsible feeling This was done after construction men had Police department as well Ae the tremendous detonation rocked yicinity at the Ulysoee s. Grant, deputy subtreasurcr, loss of Ilf in th metropolis, agents of a among other offlolals of th governhastily assembled fourtd dlffl the walls and smashed In vAndowe, Markle who was sitting at hla desk In th serwas of secret tha ment, that th devVrtment explosion resulted justice, covered his head with hie arms, thus was slightly injured by flying vice operatives of the treasury. Inspec- from a radical bomb plot. escaping the shower of glass and debris tors ef the poetoffice department and Secretary Houston announced that th which felled Dickerson, fracturing his experts of th department of agriculture secret service was at work on th css Skull. Both Markle and Jessup escsDed scene. wer ordered to because of the proximity of th explothe with slight Injuries. FEDERAL AGENCIES of th origin of the ex- sion to the United States Subtreasury Investigation Federal Agen Francisco, who first was was General ordered and by Attorney assay office. Mr. Houston added the Inclined to tho theory that th TO WORK plosion Palmer upon receipt of the first report treasurys report contained no definite was accidental, later stated thatexplosion radical' from New Tork, and William J. Flynn, information as to tha eausa. In the hay placed a powder wagon in the "tjfht middle of the street with a urn fuse. Plot or accident, he said, he waa positive that tha explosion occurred, in the wagon. Ha said ha had communicated with th Dupont company, and that officials had said th concern had only one wegon In Manhattan bearing explosives, and this not supposed to be In lower Manhattan In front of TOPPLES OVER DEAD. U .mere, as Compdliy at -- i " ;f THEORIES ARE ADVANCED. - J -- ARE SET 1 Borns Gives Warning. Warnings that radicals planned a renewal of bombing outrage were sent recently to all eastern ollsnts of th William J. Burma Detective agency, according to a statement today by Mr. Burns, who said ha waa convinced that todays explosion in th financial dlstriot waa a prereedi tated attack and was not accidental. ; Among tha injured waa Alvin W. Krech, (resident of the Equitable Trust company. Is was struck by flying glass when sit ting in his office on th first floor of a building near th explosion. After being treated at a hospital for outs on the face and head, ha want home. Mayor Hylan announced that he would seek to have ths city offer a reward of 210,040 for th conviction of any person who might hav been responsible for crime In connection with th explosion. Window of th forty-stor- y E ultable building wars shattered as high up s th twentieth floor. Soldier established s deadline around the building lest p. deelriana be Injured by glass which this afternoon was dangling in jagged pieces on hundreds of sashes. 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Some of those killed outright had ths clothing literally torn from their bodies, and evidence that th street waa filled with burning, scorching, flaming gas was shown by the blistered and burned flesh. Had th explosion occurred ten or fifteen minutes later th casualties would no doubt hsv been greater, as the hour, 11:01, was just at th beginning of th period when the office buildings were pouring forth their thousands of em ploye here th disaster occurred, th junction of Broad. Nassau and IV all streets, Ik perhaps1 during th noon hour, the moet congested point In the city. Polio Commissioner Enright (aid this aftsrnoon that the police wer working on thirty leads in an andeavor to ascertain tha causa of th explosion. There are certain development which do not uphold th explosion of dynamlt in a wagon aocounling for th wreck of th buildings th commissioner said. My men hav found slugs of cast Iron all around th soon of the disaster. They resemble weight of, windows broken la pieces but they did not com from windows in th vicinity, as tar as w can find out" Commissioner Ekirtght said he had men working on the reported flight of two men between Willie m and Hanover streets and Wail street, who wer said to have leaped Into an automobile and darted away shortly after th explosion, Here i an idea Just one of Wicker Sewing Bagket Regular $20.00 for Wicker t , , - 11) 1 Settee. FT $71.23 Regular $95.00 for. Wicker Rocker In cretonne. Regular $43.00, for. 32.23 i Then there are pretty porch chairs selling in this sale as low, as $7. SO. No end. of 'wicker bargains. Morgans Statement. Junius 8pncr Morgan, son of a .member or the firm, Morgan ana P, said he was showered with broken glass but was not hurt. When ths explosion occurred, he sold, b was sitting In his offic on th first floor of th building, while ether members of th firm were at meeting on an upper floor. The Broad street hospital announced at 2 o'clock that It had treated nearly 200 people, mostly men, for Injuries due to th explosion. Th damage to th Morgen' building alone waa estimated at 2600.000. Minor damage to hundreds ef other building It we would total at least expected, f(90 000 more, .William Joyce, an employee of the Mor. for1 price many tempting every item U cut in price. 4 JT. that M.- - Wlnlll U Ir (( ))IUJ 1 ; t t nn UrPo JCG W ei II si nv |