The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-03
MEN DIG INCREASINGLY IN
 RUINS OF TIMES BUILDING
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 those of George w. Long and his crew of engravers. These men were on the sixth floor of the building. In the few seconds intervening between the explo- sion and the envelopmant of the building in flames, all these men made their way to safety, while the linotype men and the printers on the, second floor were trapped by fire and perished.
 Besides Long, the engraving crew con' sisted of Hubert Bruce, Edward Bell, Harry Anderson and Charles Seboldt.
 All went to work tonight at the tenn porary plant of the Times.
 Only one of them Bell, was In any way injured. He had a few slight bruises on one hand.
 The Explosion Similar remarkable escapes were made by Mark Bentley, chief pressman of the Times, and his assistants. Bentley and his men were making ready to run off section of the Sunday paper when the roar of the explosion sounded overhead. The pressroom was filled by cloud Of smoke and dust
 Walls of flame blocked all the door ways and ventiiators. Bentley said 1t seemed as if he and his men were doomed to die in the basement when one of the men remembered that hole had been cut near the sidewalk for some temporary purpose. The pressmen made A rush for this avenue of escape. They found 1t, despite the rolling waves or smoke which blinded and almost suffo- cated them. and one by one they crawled to safety. Most of those who escaped by other exits and by jumping from windows were only slightly injured Sev- eral appeared today at the office of the Times to receive the congratulations of fellow members of the stan. Two or three of them returned to work Charles Iovelace, suburban news editor, who was one of the few in the editorial room at the time of the explosion, probably will be confined to hospital for many months. He was badly burned. and while his condition was reported today to be still serious. it is expected he will re- cover. Paul Braud, police reporter or the Times, who tried to aid the en- trapped men, gave way to the nervous strain today and went to hospital.
 General Otis today issued state ment regarding the disaster in which he said:
 More than all else do deplore the sad loss of life. I. with my co-owners in the Times, can endure the physical loss which the destruction of the build ing involves with the expensive plant of modern printing machinery We can stand the loss with comparative complacency and with the courage and endurance of men who knew what 1t is to meet the ordinary disasters or busi- ness life.
 But we are overcome with sadness by the fact that so many of our loyal and faithful workmen were slain by the hands of conspirators and assas- sins, for this infamous deed was, in fact, an act of assassination. We can repair the physical damage and restore the great property destroyed, but we cannot restore the life taken away, and this Is the great burden which weighs on our hearts in the face of this fright fr- rinr,itv.
 "The work of physically rehabflitat- ing ,.e Times was already begun be- fore my arrival here yesterday by my brave, efficient and faithful associate. Harry Chandler, and will be continued until the establishment is once more complete. full-hedged and panoplied for the war which we are determined to prosecute so long as life lasts in de- fcnse of the great principles for which the Los Angeles Times and Its respon- sfble owners stand and will continue to stand.
 "I want to express here at the very earliest moment possible my gratitude to innumerable friends in the state, the county and throughout the nation, who have conveyed their sympathy to us in numberless warmly worded telegrams and in countless oral expressions show