A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded on Wall Street in front of the J.P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 and injuring 400.
The Wall Street bombing was the deadliest bomb attack on American soil for seven years. The horse and wagon were vaporized. An automobile was hurled into the air, and glass was shattered for blocks. The J.P. Morgan company decided not to fix the visible damage to 23 Wall Street, and it is still visible today.
Anarchists — particularly the followers of Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani — were suspected in the bombing. Galleanists were linked to several deadly bombings and even one mass poisoning of the era. Before the bomb exploded, a warning note had been placed in a nearby mailbox, threatening retribution for the murder indictments of anarchist killers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti the day before: “Free the political prisoners. Or it will be sure death for all of you. American Anarchist Fighters,” it read.
