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Death Pictures From The 1920 Wall Street Bombing

[Blood_Countess]

I love looking at pictures like that....so old....but i wish they could have gotten a little closer.
How many died during that?

[butterfly]

Great b/w post.

[Shadowkeeper]

Quick info and another pic:


At about 11:00 AM, Thursday, September 16, 1920, an old wagon, pulled by an old dark bay horse, travelled westward on Wall Street. It halted about 75 feet from Broad St., near 23 Wall St., the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. The day was clear, and the stock market was open, and up that day. According to Sutherland's "The Mystery of the Wall Street Explosion," in Liberty magazine, many officers were on duty at a Brooklyn transit strike; others, including the officer assigned to the Broad and Wall intersection, had been ordered "a few blocks north to help herd the paraders in a procession of colored folk."

The wagon then exploded. Next door, the massive iron bars across the Assay Office's windows bent in from the blast. The Stock Markets huge windows fell to the trading floor. Trinity Church shook. Thirty people died instantly, some mere red blots on the pavement. A woman's head, still wearing a hat, stuck to 23 Wall street's facade. A messenger lay decapitated, a packet of stocks smoldering in his hand. An eyeless clerk, his feet blown off, tried to crawl away. Two hundred lay wounded: 10 more would later die. A hoof of the horse lay in a pool of blood; a witness recalled how the pool had sparkled in the sunlight.


For more detailed info, go here:
http://www.crimemagazine.com/06/wall...omb,0115-6.htm

Wish I could find a pic of the woman's head stuck to the wall...

[Momzilla123]

Wow, cool post! And Shadow, nice follow-up info. You're always a springwell of stories behind the story. Were those descriptions actually from the original reporters? Damn, talk about sensational news reporting...Jeeze.....a hoof laying in a pool of blood glinting in the sunlight.....woman's head stuck to a storefront....man, you just don't read THAT in the local new these days. Unless you're on DR reading an eyewitness accounting, that is!

[Shadowkeeper]

Originally Posted by Momzilla123 ↗

Wow, cool post! And Shadow, nice follow-up info. You're always a springwell of stories behind the story. Were those descriptions actually from the original reporters? Damn, talk about sensational news reporting...Jeeze.....a hoof laying in a pool of blood glinting in the sunlight.....woman's head stuck to a storefront....man, you just don't read THAT in the local new these days. Unless you're on DR reading an eyewitness accounting, that is!

Yeah, newspaper accounts were waaayyyy more graphic and sensationalist back before the 'liberalisation' of the media (which is to say, the scrubbing of 'overly graphic and unpleasant' descriptions from the mainstream media in favor of those whose delicate sensibilities might be offended).

You'll notice if you look carefully that detailed descriptions of murders etc are saved for the online editions, and are often hard to find (a good example of this is autopsy reports, which often are carefully and delicately quoted from but not made available except in obscure places - for instance, you have to read Eve Carson's autopsy report to realise the true extent of her injuries, especially the fact that a bullet from behind blew out her genitals when it exited, though I can understand the exclusion of that particular tidbit).

[Imeagla]

Great pictures, great info. Thank you to all involved.

[venomous contempt]

great post

[Shawna]

Great pics, and info. Poor horsey!

[Pink_Cocaine666]

this site definately needs more old photos, awesome pics though ;)