Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-02

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thing written.
In the afternoon the force of laborers
engaged in removing the debris was
augmented by a larger force of $50 or
200 men. These worked in relays and
alternated in taking the wreckage from
the building and loading it on wagons
to be hauled away
FIRST BODI DISCOVERED
Shortly before o'clock last night the
first body was discovered. 1t was lying
near the<center of the building near the
elevator shaft, where most of the miss
ing persons are supposed to have lost
their lives, The body was beneath
heavy iron grating and chunks OF brick
were iammed into the iron, making the
task of eXtricating the charred form
most difficult one BY $3.50 o'clock the
Workmen finally succeeded in removing
the debris that covered it and 1t was
removed. A twisted mass of what once
was a typewriter was lying on the
body. This typewriter was recognized
as that used by j. Wesley Reeves, sec
retary to Gen. Otis, and the body Is
believed to be that of Reeves. The
charred torso and part of the neck was
all that remained, the skull evidently
having been crushed by the iron graf
ing and chunks of brick that covered IT,
When the news that body had been
recovered was learned by the Watchers
at the ropes-nearly every one or Whom
had remained at their point of vantage
without eating during the entire day
a rush was made for the building. and
the police had great difficulty in keep
ing back the throng.
SEEKS BODY OF HIS SON
Tears flowed freely when an aged
man tottered toward the wrecked oullG-
ing and begged the officers to be al
lowed to enter the ruins and search for
the body of his son.
HE kissed us good by Friday nlSnt'
said the aged father Then atter
starting to leave he came back and
kissed us again. He seemed reluctant
| to 60. We did not rest we'll that nlSht'
and nv wife and myself aWoke at mid
| night with a feeling that something
| fearful was impending. The toiloWlns
morning Howard failed to come nome >
then I learned of the disaster that olot-
| ted out his life and the nNes OIL MS
! fellow workers"
Many escaped death as the result OF
/ peculiar circumstances. j. McWatty,
an operator employed by the Postal
telegraph company, was on duty al
| the Times telegraph room. In COM
pany with Robert Sawyer, CHIEF oper-
ator of the Times leased wire serN Ice
/ and HARRY OIdIG1 elooAShNSA'S
editor, he made his way to the front
of the building Immediately TO low ns
the explosion. When they reached the
stairway on the third floor McWatty
halted and declared that he was not
! going to leave without his coat.
I'm going back and get it," he an
nounced.
FALL WITH CRASHING BLOW
He was advised not to do so, but
started back. Almost Immediately the
floors collapsed and Crane and sawyer
went down into the seething pit OF
flames to their death. McWatty OBJ
tanned his coat, ran out on a hre es-
cape and made his way to the ground
without being hurt.
Four men who were on the fourtn
floor at the time of the explosion
climbed to the roof and made their
escape on Franklin street. The men,
James Taggart, makeup man; Frank
| Schultz, assistant makeup man; 70. H.
Richardson, assistant foreman or the
composing room, and F. t. Richardson
of the same department, We're hemmed
in by the flames which cut off their
avenues of escape. They made their
way to the roof and found a ladder
| Just as they reached the ground on