The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1910-10-05
FIRE And DEATH
Follows Blowing Up Les Angeles Times
Building Saturday
THIRTY WERE KILLED

lUlhlI WEhE AlLAED
Within Few Minutes Of the E.piosio,
the Entire building Was n Fier!
Furnace.-The Managing Ed;to
Says Plant Destroyed BY Ene1nie:
OF Industrial Freedom.
The building occupied by Th.
Times Publishing company q; Lo;
Angeles. Cal. was destroyed by Are
Saturday morning and there was q
heav:. loss OF lie. estimated as high
as 20
The Are was proceeded by an en-
plos.nou and immediately the build.
Ing ~aS enveloped in flames. The
explosion occurred on the second
floor OF an addition 70 the old bu.:d
Ing. The Did par; is o! three hoors
Within few seconds from the time
OF the explosion the entire building
was fiery furnace. Crowds ,ha:
gathered say they saw many men tail
| back from the windows into the
flames Others leaped aad were IL
jured- g,
The poper:y loss Is estimated at
100000. The editorial -ooms were
on the third aoor. but It Is believed
the greater part Of the men on this
door escaped death.
Thomas P. Smith. an lad" COM
posi,or. working or the second floor
when the explosion occurred. gives
the following version:
There were at least so men at
work on my floor. selieve that half
Of this number may not have esc4p-
ed. with the others rushed for
the street and We then saw the whole
building in fans.
The entire building was in ruins
at Las. and but two walls were
standing.
In addition to the complete plant
OF The Tines the building contained
the large jobbing and commercial
plant OF the American Engraving
Co.
Within few minutes after the e1-
plosion the police arrested two men
il n. Broadway tunnel. two blocks
north OF the Times building a.d
they are being held for inden.ifica-
ton. The Times employs non-unioa
printers and has had more or less
friction with labor
The police had their IRE lines 2u,
up around the scene and reserves
were soon patroling the d!s,ric, arm
ed with riot clubs but the hal: clad
crowd which silently watched the
flames from behind the Are lines were
orderly and not Al arreS, was made
from amongst the crowd
The following list OF missing fur
nished by the Times have no: been
accounted for:
J. c. Golliher. linotype operator.
married. FIVE children.
". G. Tunstall. linotype operator.
married.
John Howard. printer. married.
one child.
Grant Moore. machinist. married
three children
Edward Wassou. printer. married.
Elmer Fr:nk. linotype operator.
married.
Eugene Cares. linotype operator.
married. one child
Don e. Joha>cr ,i:cty!e operator
married.
Ernest Jordan. linotype operator
marriel. one child.
Frank Underwood. printer. mar
vicd. one child
J Wesley Beaver stcnoEra7hcr.
r. L. Sawyer. ,eleErapher. mar
ried. two children.
HAIRY L. Crane. assistant tele-
graph editor. married. one child
Chalcs CULVER. composi,or. mar
yied.
Carl Salada. linotype operator.
Among :Ae injured taken TO the
receiving hospital were the 'ollow-
..S:
Harvey ?. Elder. rs: .;-::. city e!;
toy. Jumped from third story: right
leg broken. internal injuries and Sc
yer. burns: will die.
Charles F. Lovelace. Coast editor.
jumped from third floor. hip broker
internally injured and burne:.
S. ". Cr,bill. foreman com pc>:rS
room. sever. bruises.
Randolph K"ss!. linotype op"ra.o :.
jumped from second roo-. :r-.y
injured
Many others injured were taken
70 the other hospitals.
The flames followed the explosion
so quickly ,ha, those in ne . :':d.
ing had little chance 20 es,a,,'
Many leaped from the windows al
were severely injured.
The building burned rapidly AMI
before many o: nc inmates svi.C
reach the stree; il was mas >!
flames
The force Of the explosion was
concentrated on the mechanical de-
partmen, OF the paper and most OF ;ht
dead and injurede were members o.
these departments.
Managing Editor Harry Andrews
at two O'Clock Saturday morning
said
The Times building vas DESTROYED
By dynamite this morning 5y enem
les Of industrial! freedom. Toe Time
itself csuno, ae DESTROYED II H!l
sooc so re-ssued from its aUA:lar.
plan: and siil Seo; its battles 10 ~
Has,