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Show BOMB EXPLOSION Ifl HEART OFNEWYORK TWENTY-NINE KILLED AND HUNDREDS HUN-DREDS INJURED IN FINANCIAL FINAN-CIAL CENTER. Banking House of J. P. Morgan & Co., the Subtreasury and Assay Office Partially Wrecked at Noon Hour by Deafening Blast. New York. An explosion in Wall street, near Broad, believed by trained department of justice and police investigators in-vestigators to have been caused by an infernal machine, rocked the heart of New York's financial district at noon Thursday, leaving death and destruction destruc-tion in its wake. Twenty-nine persons were killed, more than 200 were injured, the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co., the subtreasury and the assay office were partially wrecked and property damage estimated in excess of $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 was caused. Thomas W. Lamont, of the J- P. Morgan firm, expressed the belief, however, that the explosion was pure ly an accident, caused by a collision between an explosive-laden wagon and another vehicle. The firm had received re-ceived no threats of any kind, he said, and there was no real reason for the planting of a bomb outside the firm's office. The noon hour had struck and an endless stream of office workers had just started pouring into the streets from buildings in the neighborhood. Suddenly, a cloud of yellowish-black smoke and a piercing jet of flame leaped from the street outside the Morgan Mor-gan office. Then came a deafening blast. A moment later scores of men, women and children were lying prostrate on the ground and the streets were covered cov-ered with debris from thousands of broken windows and the torn facades of adjacent buildings. Two minutes later the stock and curb exchanges, the financial pulse of the world, had closed. Panic and confusion con-fusion reigned in the heart of New York's financial district. Evidence tending to. confirm the the ory that the explosion was caused by a bomb or some other infernal machine ma-chine came from several sources. |