The Republican journal., 1910-10-27
DYNAMITERS' VICTIMS.

Impressive Funeral Services. Fourteen
Collins Held INITIATED Bodies of Los
Angeles Killed. Twenty-one Widows
Mourn.
Twenty thousand people tried to at
| tend the funeral services held for the
| more than a score of victims of the dy-
Mantle explosion and subsequent fire
which wrecked the plant of the Los An
geles Times. Five thousand were ad-
mitted to the auditorium of the Temple
Baptist church, while the rest were
packed in front of the building during
the services. Another crowd of 5000
witnessed the interment at Hollywood
cemetery.
The services at the auditorium were
impressive. Practically every minister
of every denomination in the city took
part in the exercises The Orpheus club
furnished the music. In the middle of
the audience room was a space reserved
for the immediate families of the VIC
tins, for whose death labor unionism
has been blamed, but without definite
evidence. So far the only facts known
are that bomb of highly explosive
force was fired under the building, and
others unexploded were found at the
homes of General Harrison Gray Otis,
the proprietor, and one of his business
managers. Great rewards have been
offered for the capture Of the fiends.
TWENTY ONE WIDOWS.
/ Twenty one widows in deep mourning,
surrounded by their fatherless children
and parents Of the dead employees, oc-
cupied the center of the church The
employees of the Times filled the rest of
the main floor, while the galleries were
packed.
On the stage, arranged in a semi circle
and banked with floral tributes, were Ii
collins. They contained all that was left
of fourteen bodies. No one knows who
they were, for the remains could not be
identified. Others still in the ruins will
be buried by their side.
| Opening the service, the curtain was
raised to low music on the organ. At
this point one of the mourning women,
unable to restrain her grief longer, burst
into heartrending walls. Other hearts
were unable to withhold their grief as
the sobs and cries of this woman rang
through the quiet auditorium.
The organist continued his dirge, but
In louder tones.
Uniformed nurses rushed through the
audience, giving relief here and there,
comforting, caresslng. producing smell
ling salts and cooling drinks for the suf-
ferers.
REV. MR.. BURDETTE OFFERS PRAYER
The Rev. Robert ]. Burdette stepped
upon the platform and offered a prayer.
| One by one he called upon the other min
listers to perform some part. Music was
interspersed with prayers, but always
was there the sobbing or wailing of be-
reaved women.
DR.. Burdette's sermon was impressive.
He had known personally many of the
victims, and several times he was COM
PEELED to stop speaking to control him
self. But when he called the roll of the
dead martyrs of fendish hatred, who
gave their lives on the altar of duty"
fresh sobs broke out at the calling of
each name.
"And they ask us to be calm, =" cried
Mr.. Burdette. ''Face to face with these
mourners, robbed of that they held dear
est on this earth by the fiendish act of
the dynamiter, how can mortal be calm?
May God give us strength to clean this
fair earth of that curse, the assassin who
Stays and destroys with dynamite. Lin
coin was shot in the back, Garfield was
slain by bullet in the back, Mckinley
was killed by the bandaged hand that he
had reached out to grasp in friendship.
Always it is the same-the cowardly
assassin.
The preacher called on God for justice.
He begged that there be left no place
on earth or In heaven above or hell be-
meath for the skulking dynamiters.