The Wall Street Bombing

On this day, at noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds on Wall Street and stopped opposite the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan & Co. bank, on the Financial District’s busiest corner. Inside the wagon, 45 kg of dynamite with 230 kg of heavy, cast-iron sash weights exploded in a timer-set detonation,  sending the weights flying through the air. The horse and wagon were blasted into small fragments, but the driver was seen by witnesses leaving the vehicle and escaping down a side street. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight later died of wounds that they sustained in the blast. 143 people were seriously injured and the total number of injured was in the hundreds. Follow-up investigations failed to identify the person or organisation responsible for the bombing, although a chief suspect was the Italian anarchist, Mario Buda, a known Galleanist, believed to be seeking revenge of the recent arrest of fellow anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti.

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