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VOL. XXII. NO. 130.
36 DEAD, 200 ARE HURT, IN N. Y. BLAST
JWO MEN CONFESS
ROBBING MAIL OF
5300.000 IN BONDS
Desire for "High Life" Leads
Rtifu{ Kight and C. E.
Monroe to Stage Theft on
Southern Railroad
The old, old story of a. desire for
life,” which prompted a care
fully-planned conspiracy to get rich
quick by robbing the United States
mails, was revealed Thursday in the
confessions of Rufus Kight. a
youth a little over twenty-one, and
C. C- Monroe, a railway mail clerk,
to the robbery of Southern railway
passenger train No) 36, Atlanta to
. New York, last Monday.
Liberty bopds and securities,
many of them non-nego'tiable, val
ued at upwards of $300,000 were
stolen from the registered mails.
Monroe and Kight made a complete
confession Thursday, implicating W.
D. Franklin, until Wednesday a con
ductor for the Georgia Railway and
Power company, as the instigator, of
the entire scheme.
Early Thursday afternoon Kight
and Monroe were held to the fed
eral grand jury under a bond of
$5,000 each, in default of which
they were remanded to jail. The
charge is in three counts —conspiracy
to rob the government, mutilat’
of mail sacks and embezzlement from
the mails. Postoffice inspectors have
taken out a warrant for the arrest
-ot Franklin, now being sought.
Planned Bobbery
Soon after the robbery Kight was
arrested in a hotel a.t Homerville
by Sheriff P. R. L4e, of Clinch coun
/ty. who brought him to Atlanta
Thursday. He implicated Monroe,
who promptly confessed when ar
rested. Search for Franklin revealed
his flight. Postoffice inspectors
stated Thursday that every effort is
being made to locate Franklin on a
charge of conspiracy to rob the mails.
The story of Kight and Monroe of
the plans 'for acquiring wealth by
robbing the mails reads like a page
from a novel. Months ago the t
hoarded at the same Place.
to r marry a girl he had been engaged
to for a long V me ’ t _ their story,
-emarked. ‘Just thin . t the
rest
’ f ThX passed the remark off as a
they said, the question
ame up again.
Liquor Mixed in
Later on, under the persuasion of
Plenty of “high life,” the two stated
hat they began seriously to plan
the robbery of the mads , f>
“T was over persuaded, saia
Monroe “I felt like I was going to
get caught. There was some liquor
and a lot of talk and you know how
things like that go.”
Franklin, according to the in
spectors, apparently had very H£-
tle to do with the actual robbery,
further than to join in the alleged
conspiracy. . .
According to the confessions of
Kight and Monroe, Kight boarded
the train in Atlanta as a passenger.
At Gainesville he left the passenger
coach. Monroe, whA» duty it was
to see that the maifstorage car was
locked, left the doof ajar and Kight
climbed in.
Uncle “Turns Him Up”
Kight, alone in the mail storage
car, made his way to the door lead
ing into the mall car in which Mon
roe was working. Monroe handed
him a bag of registered mail. Kight
"slit the bag open, pocketed the se
curities aqd left the train at Toccoa.
Kight made his way to Homer
ville, where he went to a hotel. At
that city he saw his uncle, H. S.
Burkhalter, representative from
Clinch county in. the state legisla
ture. Mr. Burkhalter, surmising that
something was wrong, called on
Sheriff Lee who, connecting Kight
with the reported robbery, made the
arrest.
Postoffice inspectors early Thurs
day afternoon had not completed their
inventory of the aecurities. It was
stated that while there were some
Liberty bonds in the rifled pouch,
many of the securities were non
negotlable. Accompanying Sheriff
Lee to Atlanta with his prisoner
were Postoffice Inspectors Clyde
Fleming and Robert Barry.
Georgia Cotton Men Are
Assured of Co-operation
By Federal Reserve Bank
The Georgia division of the Amer
ean Cotton association, through W. H.
Lathrop, Jr., secretary and treasurer,
issued the following statement Fri
day morning:
More than fifty representatives of
he American Cotton association,
headed by President J. S. Wanna*
maker, conferred >with the federal
reserve board relative to the cotton
•situation. '
"Ex-Governor Manning, of South
Carolina, presented the case for the
•otton association, pointing o'ut that
the association, while speaking pri
marily- of cotton really included in
its wishes all staple agricultural
products. He emphasized that the
cotton association was not asking
anything, but had come rhther for
the purpose of getting a better un
. derstanding of the board’s/ policy
with respect to credits for the order
ly marketing of agricultural prod
ucts.
"Governor Harding, responding for
the board, emphasized the thorough
agreement of the board with the
American Cotton association in the
desire for the gradual, orderly mar
keting of staple agricultural prod
ucts, especially cotton.
Public Is Mislead «
"Governor Harding with more
than ordinary emphasis drew atten
tion to the fact that there seemed
to be an organized effort to mislead
SECOND CAMPAIGN
FOR GOVERNOR OF
GEODGIALAUNCHED
Walker Expected to Answer
Hardwick’s Challenge for
Debate Friday—Volunteer
Clerks Likely,
Active campaign work was launch-
Friday morning by Thomas W. *
Hardwick and Clifford Walker, whose
contest for governor will be decided
by the Democratic w’hite voters of
Georgia in a second primary to be
held on Wednesday, October -6.
Judge G. H. Howard, of Columbus,
who managed the campaign of Mr.
Hardwick in the first primary, will
again be in charge of Hardwick head
quarters in the Kimball house. James
H, Dozier, of Athens, who managed
the campaign of Clifford Walker in
the first primary, will again be In
charge of Walker headquarters in the
Kimball house.
Late Thursday afternoon, when the
subcommittee on rules of the Demo
cratic state executive committee had
ordered a second primary to. be held
on the above date, Mr. Hardwick is
sued a challenge ttr Mr. Walker to
meet him in joint debate, and issued
also a statement summoning the De
mocracy of Georgia to join him in
preventing the ‘Howell dynasty” from
naming another governor.
The challenge for a series of joint
debates is under consideration by
Mr. Walker. His answer is not ex
pected until Saturday. His speaking
dates and the Hardwick speaking
dates will depend upon whether he
accepts the challenge.
Subcommittee's Action
By a vote of five to one the sub
committee on Thursday afternoon af
firmed the action of the Decatur,
county executive committee iii refus
ing the request of Mr. Hardwick for
a recounj of the ballots in that coun
ty. The request was based upon the
allegation that forty-one men whose
names were not on the registration
list were allowed to vote in Decatur
county. The Decatur county commit
tee refused the request on the ground
that it was not made by Mr. Hard
wick personally or by any person au
thorized to act for hint, and on the
further ground that Mr. Walker was
not notified. Claiming that these |
grounds were a technical pretext for
denying him a recount of the ballots,
Mr. Hardwick appealed to the sub
committee of the state committee.
After prolonged sub
committee affirmed the action o? the
Decatur county committee.
J. H. Milner, of Dodge county, who
made the motion to affirm, declared
this action would make many votes
for Mr. Hardwick, but nevertheless
he did not see how the subcommittee
could justifiably reverse the Decatur
county committee.
Those who voted for the motion
were Mr. Milner; Colonel H. H. Dean,
Gainesville; Fermor Barrett, Toccoa;
Miller S. Bell, Milledgeville; Hiram
L. Gardner, Eatonton. The single
vote against it was cast by Judge
James J. Flynt, chairman, who spoke
at length in criticism of allowing men
to »vote when their names were not
on the registration list.
Having thus disposed of the Deca
tur county contest, which was the
only one before it, the subcommittee
then proceeded to consolidate the re
turns in the gubernatorial contest.
These results officially transmitted
by the county chairmen to Secretary
Gardner showed the same relative
standing of candidates as previously
published in the newspapers.
Call for Volunteers
That is to say, Mr. Hardwick car
ried seventy-eight counties with 190
couYity. unit votes, Mr. Walker car
ried sixty-nine counties with 174
county unit votes, and Mr. Holder
carried eight counties with twenty
two unit votes.
A majority of county unit votes
being required by the Neill primary
law to dominate for governor, and a
second primary being required in the
event no candidate* receives a ma-
(Continued on Page 7, Column 5)
the public as to the policy of the
federal reserve board touching the
matter of the contraction of credits
to essential industries, including es
pecially all agricultural products.
While stating that the board had
undertaken to reduce credits for non
essential and for speculative pur
poses, he pointed out that it was
not now the policy of the board, nor
had it been, nor would it be to re
strict credits for the assistance of
essential industries and especially
agriculture. He produced figures to
show thai from September 1, 1919,
to Septenrber 1, 1920, there had been
a larger extension of credits for es
sential purposes than at any period
in the history of the country,' ex
cept the period of 1917-1918, and that
since the end of August this year
on account of crop-moving demand
federal reserve note issues have been
increased at a rate of from thirty to
forty millions of dollars a week, and
that bills discounted in vault of the
Federal Reserve banks had increased
at a rate of about fifty millions of
dollars a week.
“Governor Harding stated that
whatever liquidatloiT" had gone on
through the Federal Reserve sys
tem recently was for the very pur
pose of putting the member banks
in a position to take care of this
very situation which he foresaw
more than a year ago. The im
pression was distinctly given that
the board’s policy was sympathetic
to an orderly movement of the
crops, and that such a movement
was a necessity dependent to a
large exent upon the credit situa
tion. t
KELLOY ON STAND.
FAILS TO MENTION
KILLINGDFTREXLER
Makes Rambling Statement,
State Puts Up Nineteen
Witnesses —Case Goes to
* Jury This Afternoon
GRIFFIN, Ga., Sept. 17.—With
both the state and the defense closed
—the later after only one witness,
“Jack” Kelloy himself, had been put
o ntbe stand, and had delivered a
rambling statemyit, in which he did
not mention Leroy Trexler, the At
lanta taxi driver, for whose murder
he is on trial —court adjourned for
the noon recess at 12:15 o’clock, to
reconvene at 1:30 o’clock this after
noon. when it was expected the argu
ments would begin.
* i
The state put up in all nineteen
witnesses. The defense put up only
Kelloy himself. He was told to tell
Tds story, and began with a long,
rambling narrative of his life from
his birth to the day of the murder,
last Friday. He spoke with a strong
accent, attributable to his long stay
ir France, where he had lived most
of the time.
Coming to his account of what
happened on the death ride of Le
roy Trexler, Kelloy surprised the
crowd by not referring in
any to Trexler or to a killing.
Previously he had made three dif
ferent statements to newspaper men
concerning the killing, with a some
what different version each time, bjit
always admi: *.^ er had
been shot to death.
Story of Trip
Kelloy,,’s story of the automobile
journey last Friday, as related to the
jury follows:
“I had a car sent to Luckie street.
I went to Griffin. I got pinched
there. They fined me $22. I was
on my way to Savannah. I had
never driven a car in my life. In
going over some rough roads I step
ped on the throttle once and broke
the rear axle.
“I. told a man named Green, who
rode me to Milner, that I was a hand
artist and asked him to have a
drink with me. I got bn the train
and went to Macon.
“They arrested me there. I .did
not know what for, and it was a
long time before they would tell me.
“Just let me say this:
“I didn’t kill nobody, never stole
nothing, have been honest all my
Jife. I was making money, and
would make money, but they
wouldn’t give me no chance.”
After the statement by Kelloy.
court was adjourned until 1:30 o’clock
this afternoon.
Contention of State
The noise of something like a soht,
“that sounded smothered.” described
by one witness, who then saw a man
standing by an automobile, “in a
stooping position.” and the testi
mony of .4+l e undertaker, that there
were powder burns about the fatal
wound ’n the back of Leroy Trex
ler’s head, “indicating that the shot
was fired at close range,” made up
the more sensational points of the
testimony sup to noon Friday in the
trial of Kelloy. The trial was pro
ceeding swiftly in the Friday session,
and more than a dozen witnesses had
been examined by the noon recess.
Just before court reconvened this
morning. Solicitor General Owen, for
the state, made the following state
ment to The Journal’s correspondent:
"We expect to place the defendant
at the scene of the crime, and with
the deceased, at the time the murder
was committed, with absolutely no
one else in the vicinity.”
Toward the end of the Friday
morning session, the most pertinent
testimony ip this direction was given
by Mrs. D. A. Shepherd, who lives
a mile from the store of Grantland
Doe, and a Short distance from the
scene of the murder. '
Mrs. Shepherd Testifies
Mrs. Shepherd said:
“I saw a car with two men in it
pass my house last Friday. I was
in my yard at the time. About three
minutes later I heard a noise like a
pistol shot, or maybe a tire blowing
out—it sounded as if smothered—
and looking down the road I saw
the cai"standing at the road-side not
far from me.
I could see only one man. He was
the man who had been sitting on the
righthand front seat as the car pass
ed my yard. He was out of the car,
standing beside it, in a stooping po
sition.
“In a few minutes, the car came
back past my house, going toward
Griffin. The man who was formerly
sitting in the righthand front seat
now was driving. He was alone.”
This testimony created the prin
cipal sensation of the morning ses
sion. (
Mrs. Frances Roche, who appeared
as the only friend of the defendant
at the opening session of court
Thursday, and who had retained his
Atlanta counsel for him, was not in
her place atfhis side when court be
gan Friday. Her absence seemed to
disturb Kelloy, who also was in a
more serious mood than yesterday,
when he had at times smiled and
even laughed at incidents that came
up while the motions for a contin
uance and a change of venue, all
overruled, were being argued and the
jury chosen. Attorney W. O. Coop
er, of Macon, also was absent and
in his place was the senior member
of the firm, John R.' Cooper, who,-
with H. A. Allen, as Atlanta, was
conducting the defense.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920.
| THE HORN OF PLENTY
i■ O '
Look again at the picture above.
You notice how well filled is this "Horn of Plenty.”
Farmers all over this land have poured grains, potatoes, fruit, meat, sugar vegetables of all sorts
into the larger end of the Horn of Plenty.
Surely this is enough food for everybody, and to spare for nations less abundantly blessed with
rich acres.
But there is not enough food for many persons in this Horn of Plenty.
Look again at the picture above.
Notice the other fend of that horn? Notice how small the distribution end is? Because it is so
small persons do not get enough food of the quality good for them. This emfell end of the horn is
merely the artist’s picture of our inefficient transportation and marketing systems wasteful methods
pursued from the moment food leaves the farm until it arrives at your back door. It is a picture of
unnecessary middlemen—all toll-takers; of food speculation, so needless and so expensive to food con
sumers; of manipulated shortages which furnish new excustes for increased prices, and of car short
ages and terminal congestion.
Now you see why it is that a dollar’s worth of food poured into the Horn of Plenty comes out
at the other end looking like 30 cents!
Thousands Gasp When Aviator
Slips While Changing'Plane
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Furnishing
thrill after thrill to the watching
thousands beneath him, Al Wilson,
1,509 feet from the earth’s surface,
yesterday transferred himself from
one airplane'-to another at the Ken
tucky state fair.
Standing erect on the upper wing
of one machine, he waited until the
other was pass.ng immediately over
hir». then jumped. He fell back. He
had misjudged che distance.
A sigh of relief from the myriad
of spectators, who expected to see his
body hurling through space.
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“Will he try it again?” many of
them asked. “Did it get his nerve?”
But the planes circled, and flew
back over the field in front of the
quieting the doubts of
those who were afraid they were go
ing to miss something.
Once more the dare-devil walked
out along the fuselage and, once
more the other machine swooped
down. He grasped two struts on the
topmost plane, which lurched up
ward, carrying him with it.
MELON GROWERS
OF 12 COUNTIES
HAVE ORGANIZED
MOULTRIE, Ga., Sept. 15—The
watermelon growers of the twelve
southwest Georgia counties making
up the Southwest Georgia Develop
ment association, have formed an
association for the purpose of work
ing for a better marketing and dis
tributing facilities. It is proposed
also to in a measure contrbl the acre
age. An effort will be made to im
prove the quality of the melons
shipped from this section and to stop
the marketing of melons before they
are ripe. It is said that -during the
early part of the season a large num
ber of watermelons webe shipped to
certain markets in the east and their
failure to cut red caused a big drop
in the price. The melon crop during
the past season, was in many re
spects, one of the most disappoint
ing from the standpoint of the grow
er ever produced in this section of
the state. Farmers complained bit
terly at what they called raw deal
that was given to ttyem by commis
sion men. It is their such
an association as has been formed
can handle sales and distribution at
a saving of thousands of dbllars for
the growers—money which has here
tofore been going to the buyers. It
is pointed out that men can be sta
tioned in the melon-buying centers
and the sales made direct.
MacSwiney Had Better
Night; in Less Pain
But Is Much Weaker
LONDON, Sept. 17. —Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney, of Cork, who to
day began the chirty-sixth day of his
hunger strike at Brixton prison, pass
ed a somewhat better night and had
a little sleep, said a bulletin issued
at 10 o’clock this morning by the
Irish Self-Determination league. The
bulletin said the pains he has suf
fered in his limbs and back con
tinue. but that he Was not suffering
from the pain in his head from
which he has frequently complained.
It was declared a doctor had found
him appreciably weaker, but that he
was still conscious.
In his report to the home office,
the physician at Brixton prison de
clared there was no change in the ,
lord mayor’s condition, except that
a gradual deterioration was notice
able daily.
Mexico Orders Oil
Ships From Canada
OTTAWR, Ontario, Sept. 16.—The !
Mexican government has placed or
ders with Canadian shipbuilders for
thirty-seven ships, mostly oil tank
ers, it was announced today. Under
the shipping aid laws the govern
ment must apprpove the contract
which was submitted today by the
Prince Rupert Dry Dock company.
Living Cost up 197 Rer Cent
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Official
statistics issued show that from
July, 1914. until July of this year,
the cost of living increased 197 per
ctnt.
SUSPECT HELD IN
WALLSTREETPROBE
INSANE
Edwin P. Fischer, Arrested
in Hamilton, Ontario, Will
Be Sent to an Asylum
HAMILTON, Ont., Sept.' 17.—Ed
win P. Fischer, detained here in con
nection with warnings \ alleged to
have been sent predicting the Wall
street explosion, was adjudged a
“fit subject for the asylum,” 'by a
lunacy commission here today and
will be taken there this afternoon.
Officers who took the prisoner in
charge say he talked queerly. He
claimed that h 6 had once acted as
sparring partner to Jack Dempsey,
the heavyweight boxing champion. '
Robert Pope, of New York. Fisch
er’s brother-in-law, speaking to
newspaper men this afternoon, said
that Fischer told him three weeks
ago that he had a premonition that
Wall street would be blown up but
be paid no attention to him.
He declared that Fischer moved in
no circle in which he could come
in contact with persons who could
give him any information of the im
pending explosion.
George F. Ketchledge, a broker and
old friend of Fischer, said he re
ceived a postal card from Fischer
two days ago, "mailed in Toronto,
which warned him to “get out of,
Wall street as soon as the goifg’
strikes at 3 o’clock Wednesday.”
Inspector Lahey. of the New York
police, said that he was searching
for Fischer. He said he had been
informed that Fischer had had men
tal trouble, and that he had been
under observation sci Toronto.
A man who as E. P.
Fischer at Queens hotel in Toronto,
left there suddenly September 14.
A tennis racquet was found in his
room. The man attracted attention
by his violent talk. On one occasion
he told a member of the hotel staif:
“There are four millionaires out
there and I am worth mpre than all
of them?’ Hotel servants, it was
said, reported he predicted to them
that there would be an unheaval in
New York on Thursday.
This man was described as being
well built, weight about 170 pounds,
ruddy complexion, clean shaven and
attired in a light suit
NAMES OF DEAD
IN BIG EXPLOSION
IN WALL STREET
NEW YORK, Sept. 17. —Thirty-six
persons, two of them unidentified,
lost their lives in the explosion yes
terday in Wall street, according to
a revised casualty list issued at noon
today. The number of injured is said
to approximate 200, with exact fig
ures unobtainable because scores re
ceived emergency treatment outside
of hospitals.
The revised list of dead follows:
Joseph Arambarry, twenty-eight
years, a West Indian, of the Bronx.
Reginald Ellsworthy, West Orange,
New Jersey.
Barthomew ‘F'lapnery, nineteen
years, messenger, New York. ,
Franklin G. Miller, twenty-one
years. New York.
Harold L. Gillies, Pelham, N. Y.
Charles Hanrahan, Brooklyn.
/ Raymond Miller, no address.
Thomas W. Ostrey, no address.
Benjamin Soloway, sixteen years,
Brooklyn.
Joseph Schmitt, thirty years, Long
Island City.
John W. Weir, New York.
Margaret Fisher. Brooklyn.
John Donohue, thirty-eight, Brook
lyn.
William Joyce, twenty-four, Brook
lyn, clerk in Morgan’s office.
Carolyn DickindSn, Elmhurst, Long
Island. I . . *
’ Mrs. Margaret Durey, thirty-eight,
Brooklyn. . .
Worth Bagley Ellsworth, firty-two,
Washington, D. C.
William F. Hutchinson, forty-one,
Garden City, Long Island.
John Johnson, 'New York.
Bernard J. Kennedy, thirty, Brook
lyn.
Alexander Leigh, New York.
Charles Lindrothe, Broooklyn.
Colin B. McClure, twenty-five, Yon
keAl’fred Mayer, New York
Colonel Charles A. Nevlll, U. S. A.,
Savannah, Ga.
Rudolph Portiny, Jamaica, Long
Island.
Edward A. Sweet, Brooklyn.
Robert West day, sixteen, New
York. /
Mildred Xylander, New York.
Lewis K. Smith, New York.
Jerome H. McKeon, broker, the
Bronx.
Mr. McArthurs, address unknown.
Two bodies still unidentified at
the morgue. i
Joseph Aresberg, Brooklyn.
L. L. Roberts, New York.
Crop Forecast
By Federal Department
Gives Interesting Facts
Washington, Sept. 16 —North Car
olina’s tobacco crop this year is fore
cast by the department of agricul
ture at 424,525,000 pounds, or about
18,000,000 pounds less than Ken
tucky’s crop, each state producing
more than one-quarter of the country’s
record breaking crop of 1,553,812,000
pounds. Virginia’s crop is forecast at
pounds, while South Car
olina has 94,392,000 pounds; Tennes
see. 77,067,000 pounds; Georgia. 20,-
185,000 pounds; Florida, 4,250,000
pounds, and Alabama, 1,498,000
pounds.
Alabama’s peanut crop this year is
more than one-quarter of the coun
try’s total production, placing it at
38,880,000 bushels. Alabama has
10,138,000 bushels; Georgia, 7,405,000;
Virginia, 5,263,000; Texas, 4,710,000;
Florida. 4,317,000; North Carolina,
4,316,000; South Carolina, 968,000;
Tennessee, 440,000; Mississippi, 102,-
000, and Louisiana, 89,000.
Alabama leads the country in pro
duction of sorghum for syrup, her
crop this year being forecast at 10,-
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.50 A YEAR.
FINANCIAL CENTERS
OF NATION GOARDEO
AGAIHSTEXPLB6IDNS
Authorities Are Sure That
Blast Was and
No Accident, as Claimed
' by Lamont
NEW YORK, SeptAl6.—(By the As
sociated Press.) — A mysterious ex
plosion, disastrous in its effect, oc
curred at noon today in Wall street,
killing more than a score of per
sons and injuring hundreds.
Office workers were just hurrying
into the street for their noonday
meal when a jet of black smoke and
flame rose from the center of the
world’s great strfeet of finance.
Then came a blast. A moment la
ter scores of men, women and chil
dren were lying, blood-covered, on
the pavements.
Two minutes later, nearly all the
exchanges had closed. Men had
turned from barter to an errand oi
mercy—and there was need of'lt.
While the ‘police toiled for hours
seeking the dead: and injured, train- f
od investigators were trying in vaif.
to determine definitely whether the
explosion had occurred from a bbmb
dropped in front of the office of J.
P. Morgan & Co., or whether an au
tomobile dashing into a wagon load
bed with explosives, had taken Its.
Soli.
Frank Francisco, one of the most
able investigators of the department
of justice, declared after arriving
on the scene that it was his opinion
that not a bomb plot but a collision
had been responsible for the blast
which rocked skyscrapers, tore the
fronts from office 'buildings for
blocks around and scattered deadly
missiles in all directions.
Although the front and sides of
the Morgan banking house were 'de
molished. no member of the firm
was seriously injured.
J. P. Morgan himself is' in Eu
rope, but at the time of the blast,
Thomas W. Lambnt. Eliot C. Ba
con, Dwight C. Morrow and George
Whitney, all directors of the com- v
pany, were in consultation.
Police Commissioner Enright caid
that after conferring with members
of the firm he had learned that Mr.
Bacon was slightly injured and also
Junius Spencer Morgan, another of
ficial of the company. Several em
ployes were injured and one killed.
Mr. Enright quoted firm members
as stating that the blast assuredly
came from the street and not from x
within the building.
The specular explosion ripped \
windows from the subtreasury
across the street from the Morgan
office and within a short time sol
diers from Governor’s Island and all
the police reserves that could be as
sembled were placed around the
government building in which was
stored more than a billion dollars
in metal and notes. Banking houses
also were placed under heavy guard
and United States regulars with
fixed bayonets were patrolling the
streets.
The explosion came at a time
when the canyons of lower New
York were thronged with hustling
office workers intent only in crowd- x
ing their way into lunch rooms
nearby.
Flames Leap High
A reporter cY_the Associated Prese,
making his way down Wall street
from Broadway, suddenly saw go up
in front of him a cone of flame and
smoke. It came from the very cen
ter of Wall and Broad streets, be
tween the Morgan building and <he
sub-treasury. It mounted so high
that awnings on the fifth floor of
many skyscrapers were to a
cinder.
Then there was a roar that was
heard far up Manhattan Island, and
hundreds of persons were hurled to
the pavement. Cries arose and on z
Wall street, paved with broken glass
there gushed forth streams of blood,
more fit for a battlefield than Amer-/
ica’s financial cemer.
One man was seen to sit up, brush
his hand over his eyes and then
topple over dead Into the gutter.
Near him were found the bodies of
three women and further on moro 1
bodies lying side by side with tho
carcasses of horses.
Hardly had the roar of the explo
sion ended when a rush for the fi
nancial district was made from all
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164,000 gallons, and the country's
total of 38,525,000 gallons. Missis
sippi stands second with ' 6,158,000
gallons. North Carolina has 3,650,-
000 gallons; Tennessee, 1,888,000, and
Georgia, 1,370,000.
Louisiana is producing almost one
half of the country’s 52,152,000 bush
el crop of rice this year. Louisi
ana’s total is 25,200,000 bushels-
Texas has 9.094,444 bushels; Arkan
sas, 7.780,000; South Carolina, 101,-
000; Mississippi, 82,000; Florida. 52,-
000; Georgia, 29,000, Alabama, 13,000;
and North Carolina 10,000.
Sweet potato production this year
promises to be only 2,000,000 bushels
smaller than the record crop of last
year, with a total of 101,779.000 busn
els. Alabama leads the states with
a production of about one-seventh of
the crop. Alabama’s output is fore
cast at 14,137,000 bushels; Georgia’s,
13,737,000; North Carolina’s, 10.130,-
000; Mississippi’s, 9,330,000; South
Carolina’s, 8,066,000; Louisiana’s, 6,-
527,000; Florida’s, 4,272,000; Virgin
ia’s, 4,193,000; and Tennessee’s, 3,-
865,000.