The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-03
RESCUE WORK
AT TIMES BUILDING
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to her husband She is in hospital
tonight in serious condition
John Howard, Jr., son of one of the
linotypers, whose body is believed to
bo in the ruins, also collapsed today.
Since the morning Of the explosion
which took his fathers life he bad
been watching the ruins, and waiting
for the shovel men to work their way
to the BODY. Today the strain of anx-
1ety and slceplessness grew too great
and no was also taken TO a hospital.
Experts at Inquest.
The inquest will be held Tuesday. At
that time the committee OF dynamite
experts and engineers appointed by
Chief Of Police Galloway TO investigate
the wreckage in an effort to learn the
port their findings. Little in the way
of evidence that might lead to tho dis
coyery of clews to the identity of the
perpetrators has been found so far
Detectives have spent many hours of
investigation at the home Of I. j..
Ieehandelaar. secretary of tho Mer
chants and Manufacturers association,
where an internal machine was found,
but nothing tangible has been discov-
cred.
Among the remarkable escapes chroDi-
those Of George ". Long and his crow
of engravcrs. These men were on the
sixth floor of the building. In the few
seconds intervening between the explo-
sion ond the development of the build.
ing 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 Be.
sides Long; the. engraving crew con
sisted Of Hubert Bruce, Edward Ball,
Harry Anderson and Charles Sebold.
porsry plant of the Times. Only one
of them, Ball, was in any way injured.
He had a few slight bruises on ono
hand
Similar remarkable escapes were
achieved by Mark Bentley, chief press
man Of the Times, and his assistants
Bentley and his men were making ready
to run off n section of the Sunday paper
when the roar of the explosion sounded
and the floors overhead broke and splin-
tered and fell. The press room imme-
of smoke and dust, Walls of flames
blocked tho doorways and vcntilators
Press Grew Escapes.
Bentley said today il seemed as if
he and his men were doomed to die
there in the basement when one of
the men remembered that a hole had
been cut near the sidewalk for some
temporary purpose. Tho pressmen made
a rush for this means OF cgress. They
found il despite the rolling waves of
smoke. which blinded and almost suf-
foca ted them, and ono by one they
crawled 10 safety. Less than ten feet
away, in tho hallway of the burning
building, their less fortunate comrades
of the linotype department were dying
in fhe swirl of flames.
Most of those who escaped by other
exits and by jumping from windows
were only slightly ininrcd. Several 3D.
peared today at the office of the Times
to receive the congratulations of fell
low members Of the staff Two or three
were we'll enough to return TO work.
Charles Lovelace, suburban news edi-
tor, who was ono of the few in tho edi-
torial room at the time of tho explosion,
probably will be confined TO hospital
bed for many months. He was fear
fully burned, and while his condition
was reported today to be still serious,
IL is expected that he Will recover. Paul
Braud, police reporter of tho Times. who
tried to aid tho entrapped men in tho
burning building, gave way to the ner-
vous strain today and was sent to hos.
ptal.
General Otis issued statement re-
garding the disaster in which he said:
"NTcre than all else do l deplore the
sad loss of life. j, with my co-owners
in the Times property, can endure the
physical loss which the destruction of
the building involved with its expensive
plant of modern machinery. We can
stand this loss with comparative com
placency and with the courage aud en-
durance of men who know what it is
to meet tho ordinary disasters of busi.
ness life. But We are overcome with
sadness by the fact that so many of
our loyal and faithful workmen were
slain by tho hands Of conspirators and
asss ssins, for this infamous deed was
in fact an act Of assassination. We
can repair the physical damage done
and restore the great property de-
stroved, but we cannot restore life
taken away. And this is the great
burden which weighs on our hearts in
the face Of this frightful calamity.