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HOMB in WAU. STRKCT < iu <<I 5 ""r" "V jury to Hundred-. JC,.,v YorV, 1" A M>-,t.-rM? I* ..t II,.,. pfiltM in???tl??W* ***" th.> !>.>*? ??' ?** v"rk' ,riv. at >-???>? dew* rue Moo in ^ h ke, . fiVi. jier?MW were mow* than were Injurled. the tiiiiklptf house of .1, iv Morgan- * <v, the M > tr??*Uter and <>'?? iiraetlcaVly wrwVtMl and property d*u? '.?,, ' *!? ? ??Hiisr-t by Wilf U6ttr K<a ylrttei M *" ?0<ll??? of ??tw workOT* ju-1 pimrliiK lilt" tt? from teijidliigt to the aelgWiort "f >""?? """ , pt^rclng }0< of f?i?? '*??''?*' /' ,hl r?tr??ct? oul?W?' the M?fK?? ??<?<?? Then ou nie n deafening blast. lnouiciii lijjir *' on'H of nu'n' wo,,,f,n children were lying Prostrate on the ground ami the streets were covered with debris from thousands of broken windows and the torn facades of gd lucent building*. Two minute later the stock and curb exchanges, the fln i, ncial pulse of the -world had closed. Panic and confusion reigned in the heart of New York's financial district. Thousands of clerks and stenograph , era fled In terror from adjoining struc tures. Score* fainted, fell and were! trampled on In the rush. Meanwlille, the noise of the explosion which was Ward throughout lower Manhattan and across the river" in Brooklyn brought thousands of Hie curious ?<> 0"' *wm' The few police on duty in the dis trict were unable to coih? with tlie crowd* '>"<1 a hurry call for police re j wrvea was sent to all downtown police j stations. * vSuh-tretisury officials, fearing that an attempt might he made to rob the hu tiding, all the windows of which were broken, requested assistance of the military i.nfhorities at Governors Is land a company of soldiers was *ent t>? guard the institution. 1 1 it i- r> culls were also M-nt 1" all ho* vitals in Hie downtown .section of New York and scores ..f ambulances were *001.1 speeding through the narrow Ntreet?, Dressing moms were established hi Hie lobbies i.t" '111- buildings nearby where the le<s seriously Injured were given luimetllali' trealnienl. "Il was i i i-ra^U Mill of a Idiie ^U.\ nil unexpected, death -ilyiiHiig t'olt ? vHrtrtr-rmi ? FwuTTrrnuT^urnT^r^ ? Shamble t he TTiTsUiess .i.nier of A inert financiul district and sent scurry ing to places ..f shelter hundreds of wounded, dumb-stricken.- while-faced jueii and women feeing from an un know n danger. 1 A reporter for the Assoi-iat.-d Press who w a s nn eye w itiiess Lodai'.s CX ploslon in "New York's financial district tlnw ib ?<(? rihed the scene ? I was just turning into Wall street from II road way." he snid. "when I first f4dl 4>r ml her -heard, the explosion. A concussion of air like that oxperienc ?m! by a passenger on the subway when a train dashes Into ?uie of the under ri\ ,.|- lubes was felt . Its force^ was sufficient to all but throw me off my ba la nee. Instantly fallowing the coucus 8lon. came a sharp resounding crash which shook to their foundations the monster buildings towering cither side of Wall street. Following the roar , ,f the blast came the rattle of falbflig ulass and from the junction "f Wall. Nassau* and Ur.sid streets a block distant screams of injured men and w omen. "1 dodged into ;t ?-oii\ enlent doorway to ocapo falling glass and to rc.ich a telephone ami < ;? 11 an ..ffi<^ r. I could | mm- rising from 1 1>?- \ M inify of th# hu!> ' treasury building and the ^ Morgan tV Co., Ha 11 k a mu*hr<>oro-idiai>ed chunk yellowish, green suioke which mounted to a height of more than 100 feet, the Hinoke Iwing licked by ?la rtinK tongue* Of flame. "I reached the scene h few moments after the explosion took place. The smoke had partially cleared the street, hut from the Morgan building there was belch I uk forth through fhe hr*k#? windows clouds of dust aqd white vapor !u the street an overturned automobile was blazing fierdy and iieart)y, close to the hotly of a dead 'horse, wato another fire evidently from a pile of wreckage. "Almost In front of the steps lead ing up to the .Morgan Hank was the mult i la ted body of a man. Other bodies m iks t of theno silent In death, lay near by. As | grazed horror-stricken at the sight, one of these forms, half naked and seared with burns, started to rise :It struggled then j&t^pped and fell life ! less Into the gutter. 1 < >n the opposite side of r?the street j were other forms. One of them was I that of a young woman, her clothing] ! torn and burned away. It was moving not In an effort to rise, hut ill the ; i -_r ? ? r i > of death. I' started toward her but as J dbl. she ben me still. Glanc ing down I saw that the pavement was ; discolored with blood. In plain sight ; within a radius of thirty to fifty feet j were nine lifeless forms; "The body of the dead horse in the ; middle of .the .street, showed plain evi ! donee of having l>cen in very close i pro\|inity to |bc ^cctie of the blast. It . was literally torn to pieces. j "Tire windows of the Morgan build. ing ? were blown ? on-! ? and ? t-lmmgh ? rhe openiitgs could lie seen the smoke blackened interior of what but a few moments previous bad been one of the handsomest banking rooms Jn the city. Opposite the entrance to the new ly ? m looted white exterior of the jsiib treasury annex was buttered i. a nd torn n? if subjected to a bombard j iiieli "f m a clone guu fire. Ttie doorway ! with its 'massive steel grill work, was i siiHttcred and the stone surrounding the door cracked and battered away. " I ty thi* time the crowd was press ing in, held in cheek by the hastily gathering police. At the doorway of til" Morgan Hank was a uniformed guard, apparantly half dazed but sticking to his post and holding back those who sought to enter the structure. ??The crowd was strangely quiet ? and over it seemed to bang a feeling of awe arid horror. At the command* of the police, it moved and fell back sil ently. i >n fcho s t.cps of the other sub treasury building the ?rpot where years ago stirring scenes connected with the ; American revolution were enacted ? 1 ' stands a statue of Oeorge Washington Looking -down from its pedestal bt>- | tween the m;is*ive granite columns, scar j I red by missels from the explosion, the nut streaehed hand of the Father of Hie <'ouutry Heennd tt> (liny a silent com llllilKl to Itf callU. "Then ??hum* the ambulances. Near by (rucks u ml automobiles were first pressed into twi'vice. Volunteers liowl ing not ldood-smeared liaiuls and clothing tenderly lifted into the vehicles the bodle* of the dying and the dead. The dead that remained for additional cotiveyenecs were charitably hidden froiu sight by coverings torn from awn ings or *>y- rolH's from arriving motor ears." JCvldwice tending to confirm the theory that the explosion wax caused by a bomb or some other infernal machine came from several ^ouree*. DANCING ON TO HELL Dr. John E. White St'ore* a fteeeiit Function. ? ? -flix'Vnrni'm ' \ XcvvMpaper criticism of a rcrent <(a n<*<> In Andoi*oiil'taas caused a geueral comment in Greenville, says the Green* vlll?? Piedmont as a number of young people from this vlty attended the af fair. Dr. John E. White, pastor of the Flrft llaptlst <4niroh of Anderson cen sured the dance in a sermon Sunday ni>?ht. The following excerpts from the Anderson Mali's rejmrt wilt h n read with Interest: 'Thpre seems to be u wave of flesh LIGHT SIX $lttS5 SPKiTAifi SIX $2095 BHi SIX CAROLINA MOTOR CO. Camden, S. C. J < ' li i?* f lVliee I tispvctor, Laiiey re , ported Into today that In* had found evidence to justify |he conclusion that .the explosion was caused by a huge | bomb loaded^ with T. N. T. ? trinitro | t olool reinforced with ii'onslugs, these ? slugs were found in several adjacent structures. This type of weight bars, a -i*h?s?* h?sjMT*r'nn by pnlico and TK'-pHrl j iih'ii t of Justice n)!<^ disclosed, is not I used In New York oiiihlings within a ' radius of several liundred feet from | the scene of the explosion. I Warning that radicals planned a re I newal ? if bombing outrages were sent loss than a month atro to all Ha stern, j ? ?! i *?i 1 1 -i <>f I ho William '.J. Burns Detee j tive Agency, according to a statement j by Mr. Burns, who said he. was conviu I <ni1 that today's explosion was a pre | meditated attack and was not acci ! denta I. There died in the almshouse at Pe tersburg, Vii., last Friday, a negro nauiiil John Allen, who was reported to Ik* 111 years of age. Florida registration authorities hold that women must give tln ir exact ages and that -1 year- plus, will n?*>t be ac cepted. At tile Majestic today >ee Alice I,. 'ike in -The Mlslit Wife "' T * sowing ;i in| carna l-madness ?\\ replug over the lamb In tho Atlantic Monthly for Aimiwl, a notable alitor diagnoses ih?' situation -and says that people arc throwing off tlio constraints of reli gion . the author says, that gave us our morals. It <-a 1 1??H certain things *'n. It stuck to. the Ten ( '-omnia nd incuts; it forbade the indulgences of the senses. Perhaps it forbade too much. This is not for me to say. But the fact remains that when as a social group we threw over our religion, we threw over ? probably without meaning to ? most of nur every <lay moral san ctions." "Hut we do not have to appeal to the Atlantic Monthly. Kvery intelli gent person observes it. There is a riot of frivolity. There Is an open ex hibition of vulgarity. fmmodesty smiles in the parlors ami walks the' streets. These a re terms which no longer describe ami specify the courte san of the suspected woman, of the streets. The wave has engulfed fe male society. The great majority of our young women are baptised in it. Its water are knee-deep in nearly every one < if our homes. It is a whole civili zation corrupted. I am giving no ex pressions to mere opinions. I claim tin- right to l?e I ward In Anderson oh til's sllhji'ct, "I 0l*iw the ri^ht to he heard in Anderson and to bio effeetlvolt 'heard beca use I si>eak with sorrow a ml res traint. Out of a long exj>erleiK'0 con tending agaJn*t social evlln In Hie city I have learned no more to fight the devil like tbe tlovtl, because the devil always wins no mutter how Just your cause. I fight the. devil here today in Anderson as 1 knew in my heart Johum Christ would fight him and in love of sinners 1 drive this blow to the point. The public dance giveh in this town "Ul 11 F'"Vl "? ,v* "them make the most of It, because the evil of it and the shame of it was tremendous. It was commercialized gr<?ed taking advantage of a lose gen era' situation to stigamatizt the young ladles of Anderson as patrons and ac complices. in druiikardness and inde cency. It- lowered the social custom of Anderson close to (he level of the public dance hall-. I know very well that many who were there regret it. Then lei us have no more of it i it this town. Tli?> public "dance invaribly degenerates i 1 1? ? ? a public lndeeeny. The commer cialized public' dance in the cities is pur under the strict surveillance of the law, and policemen line tin* walls where ?r i< carried on. Ky what means can an end he made of that sort of thing in 'Anderson- before' tolerance of it de irradi s Hie community V 1 "I <|>cak first to t lie parents of this i congregation. Will you i>erinit your t , (daughters to lie shamed? When 1 i>o ! next invatatlon nimcs with its bland 1 ? and specified assnra ih-o< that every - j ttmur will he all right what are von go i niir to say and what arc you going to do? Yon ought to fake yQur stand be fore your family of absolute authority in the promises, and no matter what complaints or resentments follow, fight for fhp souls of your children, fight for the characters of your girls. even against thorn. In old age and in the pathos of death. th?v will honor and res|H?ft you a thousand times more than they will by your easy compliance with their thoughtless cariial-minde^nesB and their youthful and perilous hot blood. I plead with all home builders of Anderson to take their stand for the protection of the young life entrusted to their care I plead with the boys and young men of Anderson that they ought to be ashamed of themselves if they do not take a high position with reference to the virture of the girls. It is some hoys sifter who is degraded by the public commercialized dance. Every boy will wince and his innate nobHity will revolt when you put it up to him about Ids own sister, her frivolity, her jmmodosty and her easy Surrender to ea rnal-mindedne^s. "I invoke our citizenship as a whole | to make an end by the power of pulflic j opinion of this sort of thing in Ander son. ? Have you paid your City Taxes? SHORT NiCWS STORIES, . ?, Item* of Interest gathered frow Plates. ? The United States holds Po)(8b |0T, evnment five percent note* for |jqq, 000,000. Pflrt oi this is for $71,0ty 000 worth of goods for the A. E, f solU to Poland and tbe rest I* for ^ piles yet to be furjiivbod. Au. automobile company saves $130. 000 yearly by establishing foundry! for rag* used to wipe oil and grease from machinery, the result of high cMt of rags. Thu Denver Font opposed editorially f bo strikes of the street ear men in that city. A mob of the strikers wrecked tbe Post plant. France soon may have no Sunday papers. A law, favored by pressmei I and other workers of the paper, is be j lug considered. It would place heavy fine for publication between 0. a. m.. Sunday and 0 a. m. Monday j Ricksha \y men of Tokio have entered j a formal protest to tbe government against the spread of tbe automobile ai 11 means of transportation in Japan. Sober geese once saved Home, but. a flock of ''stewed" geese got a.citiieu of TJonucr Creek, Kansas, into trouble with the prohibition agents. The fowl* bad been feeding 011 waste mash from a moonshine still in the house, and their contlnous drinking song made neigb 1 bors curious. Several hogs also got in I on the big party, and ran around town i advertising the blind pig. Paul Ivory Perkins, .seven years ot' | is "packing 'em in" at hrs evangelistic 1 meeting in Kansas City. Young Per kins, who is called the .voungesl reli ginus dispenser, ts "saw to be threaten ing Hill Sunday's attendance record*. A negro has confessed to a series of crimes In Washington, D. C.. For two of the assaults innocent negTtw arc now serviug long terms, one man'i sentence of death having beeq commut ed to 43 years Imprisonment by Pru dent Wilson. Five Socialist members of the New York legislature who were ejected from the assembly, will be candidate* for re-election in November. A New York oil company sold U France 11,000,000 gallons of gasoline in one week. The price was said to be about 30 cents a gallon. The wife of a negro minister at Atchison, Kansas, has been the mother of 32 children. She is 52 years old. Grand opera will cost New York $70,000 more this year than last year. The musicians have been given a raise. The Prince of Wales has canceled I proposed trip to India. King Oeorgt says "reasons of health" caused the change in the program of the prince ? extended tour through the British la ]H?rial possessions. Richard J. Foran, who received 2 wounds during the war and recovered, was killed by lightning while seeking shelter under a tree in Patterson, N. Hold Your Cotton and Insure It Rates are Especially Cheap on Lots of Ten Bales or Less WE WRITE EVERY KIND OF INSURANCE TELEPHONE 52 WILLIAMS INSURANCE AGENCY The Oldest and Strongest Agency in the County R. M. Kennedy, Jr. President J. K. Shannon, Manager