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WALL STREET IS PANIC STRICKEN statement Made After Banking Hours NO RUN ON THE BANK YET The Bank is Said to Have Recov ered Something in the Neighborhood of Two Hundred Thousand. New York, Oct. 24.-C. L. Alvord, for twenty years teller in the First National Bank of New York, is an absconder to the amount of one million dollars. The announcement was made at the bank and on Wall street after bank ing hours and a run was averted, but the "Street" was panic stricken and for a few hours the big financiers seemed like crazy men. The officers of the bank are arranging to meet the run which will surely come tomorrow, and there is no doubt but that they will be able to honor all checks. Theannouncement of the great eteal wasmade after most of the business men of Wall street had left their offices, but the news spread like fire. and most of them returned to get facts. The whereabouts of Alvord are unknown, but detectives have been put to work and they will hunt him to the four quarters of the globe. It is said tonight that the bank re. covered something in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars of the stolen money.