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Subject: Wall Street Bombing - Carrie DICKINSON 1920
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:53:25 -0500

"Carolyn Dickinson, who was killed, was the sole support of her widowed
mother. Her father and brother-in-law died recently. She died because she
left for lunch hour earlier than usual in order to help another girl get a
job. She was waiting for the other girl at broad and Wall Street when the
bomb exploded. The other girl, who was late, escaped injury, but was close
enough to see her friend thrown to the ground by the explosion. Miss
Dickinson was a stenographer employed by George H. Burr & Co., and was
standing a few feet from Harold L. Gillies." The World Newspaper of
September 18, 1920

Her death certificate- available at the New York Municipal Archives:

Carolyn M. Dickinson
25625
Volunteer Hospital
September 16, 1920
Single White Female
43 years old
Stenographer
Born US; in NYC ten years
Dad; Joseph, P born US (NY)
Mom: Mary Harrison, US (NY)
73 Hanover Street, Elmhurst, LI
Autopsy at City Mortury
Wound and hematoma of neck, penugnogastric paralysis , rupture of trachea,
bomb explosion
Broad and Wall St., 12 noon Sept. 16, 1920
Buried at Poughkeepsie Rural Cememtery, Sept. 20, 1920

Are there any obits available? The DICKINSONs lived in Poughkeepsie for
many years.
Carol L. Heap
561 683-9266 fax

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