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BXPI/OSION IN WALL STREET Results in Loss of Life and lloavy Property iMum^-A Mystery. New York, Soot. 16.-A mysteri ous explosion, disastrous in its ef fect, occurred at noon to-day in Wall street, k?'ing more than a score of persons and injuring hundreds. Office workers were Just hurrying Into tho street for tholr noon-day meal when a jet of black smoke and flame arosr from tho center of the world's great stroet of finance. Then came a blast. A moment later scores of men, women and children were lying, blood-covered, on the pave ments. Two minutes later ill the ex changes had closed. Men had turn ed from barter to an b?*r? id of mercy -and there was need of lt. While the police toiled for hours seeking the deud and injured, there were trainod investigators trying in vain to determino definitely whether the explosion had occurred from a bomb dropped In front of the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. or whether an automobile, dashing into a wagon loaded with explosives, had taken its toll. Frank Francisco, ono of the most able investigators of tho Department of Justice, doclared, after arriving on the scene, that in his opinion it was not a bomb plot, but that a col lision had been responsible for the blast which rocked '.he skyscrapers, tore the fronts fron, office buildings for blocks around ai d scattered hun dreds of deadly missiles In all direc tions . The damage to the Morgan build ing alone Is estimated at $500,000. Minor damage to hundreds of other buildings, it is expected, would total at least $500,000 more. As far as it could be learned two hours after the explosion, tho disas ter did not take the lives of any prominent financiers. Although the front and sides of the Morgan banking house were de molished, no member of the firm was seriously hurt. J. P. Morgan himself ls In Europe, but at the time of the blast, Thomas W. Lamont, Elliott C. Bacon, Dwight C. Morrow and George Whitney, all directors of tho company, were in consultation. Police Commissioner Enright said, after conferring with members of the firm, ?hat he had learned that Mr. Baron was slightly injured, and u\ao Junius o. >Morgan, another offi cial of the company. Several of the employees were injured and one was killel. Mr. Enright quoted firm members as stating that the blast assuredly came from the street and not from within tho building. The spectacular explosion ripped windows from the sub-treasury, situ ated across the street from tho Mor gan building, and within a short time soldiers from Governor's Island, and all the police reserves that could be assembled, were placed around the government building, in which was stored moro than a billion dollars in metal and notes. Banking houses also were placed under heavy guard, and i'nited States soldiers, with fixed bayonets, were patrolling the streets. Tlie explosion came at a time when the canyons of lower Now York were thronged with bustling office work ers intent, only on crowding their way into lunch rooms near by. Rla.st Hoen hy Reporter. A reporter for the Associated Press, making his way down Wall street from Broadway, saw suddenly go up In front of him a cone of flame and smoke. It chino from the very center of Wall and Broad streets, between the Morgan building and the sub-treasury. It mounted so high that the awnings on the fifth floors of many sky-scrapers were burned to cinders. FREEZONE" Lift Off Corns! No Pain! Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn; in stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift lt right off with the fingers. Truly. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezono" for a few cents, suffi cient to romovo ovory hard corn, soft corn, or corn between tho toes, and tho calluses, without soreness or irritation.-adv. Then there was a roar that was heard far up Manhattan Island, and hundreds of persons were hurled to the pavements. Cries aros9, and on Wall street, paved with broken glass, J there gushed forth streams of blood i-a more Ht scene for a battlefield than for America's financial center. One man was seen to sit up, brush his hand over his eyes, and then top ple over dead Into the gutter. Near him wore found the bodies of three women, and further on more bodies j lying side by side with the carcasses of horses. Hardly had the roar of the explo sion ended when a rush for the finan cial district was made from all parts of the city. Thousands came, moved only by curiosity, but there were others Inspired by other motives physicians and nurses bent on mis sions of mercy, and police, secret ser vice men and soldiers ordered to pro tect property and run down bomb plotters, if bomb plotters wero there. Some of tho Theories. The first thing that occupied the attention of the investigators was the wreck of a truck and automobile at the spot from where the blast was believed to have come. From tho wreckage were taken a New Jersey automobile license, whoso number corresponded to that issued to Dun ham Beedon, a Newark pharmacist, who was reported this morning to have gone to Wall street on business. Boodoo later was found safe In an accountant's office at 5 2 Wall street. He said he had parked his car, which contained no explosives, in front of the building and behind another ma chine. Beedon added that he knew no more of the explosion. Federal investigators, soon to bc headed by Wm. J. Flynn, chief of the Department of Justice bureau of investigation, summoned from Wsah ington, centered their attention on these wrecks. Some advanced thc theory that the automobile had col lided with a powder wagon, and the Dupont Company was asked immedi ately to find out whether any of its vehicles had been in the vicinity ai the time. This was done after con struction men had expressed the be lief that the truck was of the typt used in delivering explosives. . Other Investigators sought to rui down reports that a bomb had beer exploded in front of the Morgai building. Fjvidcnco of Plot. Assistant District Attorney Tally after visiting the scene, announcet his .belief that the explosion conic not have been due lo an accident He announced also that his staf would question all witnesses of tin explosion. He said that one thinj that led him to the conspiracy the ory was the time of the explosion This was fixed by a clock In the sub treasury, which stopped at 12.01. "The factors that lead me to thl belief," said Mr. Tally, "are tua the time of the explosion was a 12.01 p. m., when probably the great est damage could havo been doiv and the location of tho explosion wa midway between the Morgan office and the new United States treasur building." Working on the conspiracy theor the police picked up all remnants c the wrecked automobile and wagor evon going so far as to remove th shoes from a dead horse to establis the identity of the vehicles and thei owners. Detectives also picked up near th scene pieces of cast iron windo weights, smelling of powder. Thei were dozens of these, and the theoi was advancel that they might ha> formed part of an infernal machin AU pieces of clothing, including a shreds of cloth and battered hat wore collected by the police. Six Dlo of Injuries. The financial district was roped c and placed under heavy guard whi tho work of identifying victims wi under way. Some bodies were i mutilated that hope of identificatk virtually has been abandoned, i tho Broad Street Hospital alone li to 200 persons were admitted, ai one intern stated that six of tho had died from injuries, so crowdi was thc hospital that the inJuri woro laid on floors and In hallways When tho work of compiling a co ualty Hst was begun it was foul that Wm. Joyce was the man kill In tho Morgan banking house. 1 was a clerk in tho securities depai ment. His father, P. W. Joyce, w has charge of tho gold shipments f Ute Morgan firm, wns badly Injur in tho hoad. At 2.80 o'clock, two and a hi hours aftor tho oxplosion, tho stre< outside the police linos wero bin with peoplo, while virtually eve window was filled with on-looke Bits of jngged glass continued fall from the windows, injuring pt plo in tho streets, though not se ously. There were 500 policemen tho district in addition to the tht companies of United States infant! men. When the hospital bogan to ov I flow, Prosident Silkworth, of ti ) Consolidated Stock Exchange, offered the use ot the buildtng for emer gency purposes. Damage of $2,500,000. Although it was impossible this afternoon to estimate the property damage accm*ately, it was believed that the damage to buildings in the vicinity of the last, chieily in the form of broken plate fiiluss, would roach $2,500,000. The big bronze window fittings of the new United State assay build ing, next to the sub-treasury, and across tho street from the Morgan building, were In many places wrenched from their positions and stood a tangled, dangling mass of motal. Likewise, the heavy brqnze office fittings In the Morgan bond de partment were warpod and indented as if by machine gun Are. Workmen this afternoon were en deavoring to repair tho stock ex change, and lt was said that the board of governors hoped to open tho exchange in the morning. At 3 o'clock the police were cover ing with sawdust largo pools of blood in the street. Dolo Found in Street. In cleaning up the debris detec tives found in the street, close to the sidewalk In front of the entrance to tho now sub-treasury building, a holo about ten inches deep and three In diameter. The theory was advanced that this hole might have marked the exact location where the explo sion occurred. The position of the dead horse was about twelve feet from this hole. , .12 Dead ot 4.80 O'clock. At 4.3 0 o'clock twelve bodies had been taken to tho morgue. Unofficial estimates place the number of seri ously Injured at fifty and those who sustained minor hurts at 150. Find Mysterious Hinch Box. The bureau of combustibles an nounced that it was examining a black box, about one foot square and encircled by wire, found by the police in an automobile parked at Wall street and Hanover square, about two blocks from tho explo sion. The owner of the car, a clerk tn the National City Bank, called the attention of the police to the box, which he said he had not placed In tho car, and which he was afraid to remove. The Washington government will make a careful Investigation of the explosion, according to announce ment this afternoon from Washing ton. DrrThachers WORM SYRUP irsin t?o od Children Like IL .Mr. Palmer Returns to H. C. (Spartanburg Herald.) General Superintendent Leon C. Palmer, of the South Carolina Sun day School Association, returned to South Carolina from New York on Thursday afternoon, having attended a conference of Sunday school lead ers, of all denominations, to plan for closer co-operation between tho de nominations and the Interdenomina tional Sunday School Association. A remarkable unanimity of senti ment characterized the gathering, ac cording to Superintendent Palmer, and all matters brought before the committee wore decided by uanni mous vote. 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