Tearful Silence: Ticker Machines and Toronto Man

tearful silence: By Brennan Doherty Staff Reporter Sat., Oct. 29, 2016 The figures spewing from ticker machines on October 29, 1929, stunned thousands of Torontonians gathered at the city brokerage offices into hushed, tearful silence, according to The Toronto Star. One Toronto man even fainted. It suffered the worst loss of its history on October 29, 1929--triggering the Great Depression. He was quickly dragged into the back of a brokerage office and left to recover—on his own—while his companions rushed back to the stock board to watch their investments evaporate. A mob shoved its way onto the frantic trading floor—so vast the TSX building doors couldn't close—adding their voices to those of the men on the floor desperately trying to sell stocks. On the Toronto Stock Exchange trading floor, the chaos was likened by the Star to the Battle for Bull Run, with the scampering for cover and finding no cover. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.