Terrorists Attack – 81 Years Before 9/11

As the Trinity Church bells chimed noon on September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn buggy parked at the corner of Wall and Broad Street exploded. Thirty-eight people died and 400 sustained injuries from the blast, the resulting fire or from the cart’s contents – 500 pounds of cast-iron shrapnel. Across the street at the banking firm of J.P. Morgan and Company, J.P.’s son, Junius, lay among the injured.