On the evening of Sept. 16, 1920, under the glare of lights that turned night into day, the New York City Fire Department hosed down streets covered with the remnants of a massacre in the financial district. Bloodstains that didn’t wash away were scrubbed off with bleach.
Wall Street had been the target of an attack earlier that day-at 12:01 p.m., to be exact-an event “unprecedented in horror,” as the Sun and New York Herald would describe it. At the start of the lunch hour, a horse-drawn wagon had pulled up to the busy corner of Wall and Broad streets and exploded.
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