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WALL STREET NIGHT TURNED INTO DAY; Huge Throngs Jam Financial District and Press the Police Lines. SKYSCRAPER LIGHTS ABLAZE Unending Stream of Automobiles Traverses Lower Broadway and Side Streets.WORKMEN REPAIR DAMAGE Glass and Stone Fragments Crashto Pavements While PoliceBurn Debris. SLUGS AND GLASS BOMBARD BUILDINGS Sykscrapers of Financial District Appear to Have Been Shelled. Assay Office Chief Sufferer. National City Employes Injured. VIVID EYEWITNESS STORY. Reporter Describes Scene Moment After the Explosion.

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The tomb-like silence that settles over Wall Street and lower Broadway with the coming of night and the suspension of business was entirely changed last night as hundreds of men worked under the glare of searchlights to repair the damage to skyscrapers that were lighted up from top to bottom. View Full Article in Timesmachine »