A SERIOUS EXPLOSION
IN WALL STREET.
CAUSES FIFTf DEATHS* IUHTItAMAiJ A’ N.g. PAJn.ii ASSOCIATION] (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept, 16. A bomb exploded in a motor car outside J. P. Morgan and Company’s offices in Wall Street. All buildings in the financial district were shaken. The explosion occurred at noon, causing, a great confusion in the narrow streets which were packed with people. No members of the Morgan firm’ were injured though the interior of the office was TJie Stock Exchange was clospd for the day. sie police announce that fifty persons are known to be dead. The poljce' are tmahlp to state officially the pause of the explosion, but a swarm of Federal Agents, are investigating matters, and the opinion is expressed that the disaster the resplf pf a collision between a motor and a waggon loaded with trihk trotocluol. One hundred and fifty per? sops were hurt by flying splinters. J, S. Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan, was slightly cut At least 75 of the injured are In a serious condition,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1920, Page 2
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178A SERIOUS EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1920, Page 2
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