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Show WITNESS DESCRIBES ! TERRIFYING SCENE IN I WALL STREET BLAST NEW YORK. Sept. 17. ;(By the: Associated Press.) It was n crush1 ) out of a blue sky an unexpected I death-dealing bolt, which In a twinkling twin-kling turned Into a shambles the busiest busi-est corner of America's financial cen-i cen-i ter and sent scurrying to place of , shelter hundreds of wounded dumb .stricken white-faced men and women I fleelhg from an unknown danger." i It was a reporter for The Asso-elated Asso-elated Press, who was an eye-witness of the explosion in New York's flnan-Olal flnan-Olal district, who thus described the scene. OREA1 U ILDINGS SB IKEX. I 1 wai lUSl turning into Wall sireet 1 from np'Mhv.iy," lie said. when I i i first felt, rather than heard, the ex- j I plosion. A concussion of air similar ' to (hat experienced by a passenger , on the subway whin i train dashet 'into one of the under-nver tubes was. felt. Its force was sufficient to all' bUl throw me off my balance. Instant- y following the concussion came a Sharp resounding crash which shook to their foundations the monster j buildings facing either side of Wali I street. W ith the roar of the blast came the rattle of falling glass and from the junction of w .iii. Nassau and Broad streets a block distant Scream of injured men and women. 'I dodged Into :i convenient doorway to escape falling glass and to n ten a telephone and call the office. Look-InK Look-InK down Wall street later. I ould ye, arising from the vicinity of the sub-treasury sub-treasury builulr.K and the .1 p. Morgan & Company bank, h mushroom-shoped cloud of yellowish. green smoke, which mounted to height of more than 100 feet, the smoke being licked b darting tongues of flames "I reached the scene a few moments mo-ments after the explosion took place. The smoke had partially cleared In the street, but In the Morgan building build-ing there was romlnjc forth through the broken windows clouds of dust and white vapor In the street an overturned automobile was biasing furiously, r.nd nerbv. close to the body of a dead horse, was another fire, evidently from a pile of wreckage. SI l l ( U (.l Almost in from of the stops leading lead-ing to the Morgan hank was the mutilated mu-tilated body of a man Other bodies, most of them silent in death, lav-near lav-near by As i gaxed horror-stricken at the light, oik- of these forms, half naked, and seared with burns, started start-ed to rise. It Mrugglod then toppled anil fell llfeleda Into the gutter "On the opposite side of the itrtt I were other forms line of them was th.lt of .1 nlinc U'l.mnn hnr i.lnll.lnn , .. .. n v.,..,,, ,., - , forn and bufned away. It was mov-ing mov-ing not In mi effort to rise, but in ! the agony of death. I started toward her but as 1 did she became still. Glancing down. I saw that the pave-1 pave-1 merit was discolored with blood. In plain sight, within a radius of thirty to fifty feet, were nine HfelCSS forms The body of the dead horse m the middle of the street showed pun evidence of having been In very close proximity to the scene of the bliist. It was literally torn to pieces M I ( MM si VI POS1 'The windows of the Morgan build-ine build-ine were blown out and through tho opening could be seen the smoke-blackened smoke-blackened Interior of what but few moments previous had been one oi trie handsomest banking rooms in the city. Opposite, the entrance to the newiy completed white exterior of the sub-treasury sub-treasury annex was battered and torn as if having been subjected to a bombardment bom-bardment of machine gun fire. The doorway with its massive sleel grill work was shattered and the stone surrounding sur-rounding the door cracked and battered bat-tered away. "Ly this time, the crowd was pressing press-ing in. held In chock by the hastily gathering policemen. At the doorwax of the Morgan bank was a uniformed gitird. apparently half da.od but sticking to his post and holding b ick those who MUKht to enter V I IRK IS IN l . ' The crowd was strangely quiet and over if seemed to hang a feeling of awe and horror. At the command v. uir- ii mueu ana ten uaoK silently. In the steps of the old sub-treasury sub-treasury building the spot where rears ago tlrrlni scenes connected with the American revolution v.fre en-actorl en-actorl stands a statue of George Washington Looking down from Its pedestal! bet wen the massive granite columns, scarred by missiles" from the explosion, the outstretched heads of the Father of his country seemed to carry a silent command to be calm." "Then come the ambulances Near by trucks and automobiles wore first pressed into service. Volunteers, heeding heed-ing not hlood-smea red hands and clothing, tenderly lifted Into the vehicles vehi-cles the bodies of the dylnp and "lead. The dead that remained for additional conveyance wer charitably hidden by sight with coverings torn from awnings or by robes from arriving motor mo-tor cars. "It was such a scene as I had pictured pic-tured as a possibility during the war should the enemy succeed in dropping on the financial district one cf his deadly aerial bombs." |