New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-02

and fatally injured eap!ng iro""
building; died In hospital % Assistant
REAVES, J. Wesley. secretary AZ In ruins.
SAWYER. r. L.. telegraph operator
ruins.
The missing:
CARESS. Eugene linotype operator.
CORDwAY. Walter. linotype operator
FLYNN, Harry, linotype operator
G All III Err, j. c.. linotype operator
GULLIVER, Charles. compositor.
JOHNSON JON son Don Don E., linotype operator.
JORDAN Ernest; linotype type, operator aboTator.
MOORE. Grant machinist.
SAAI,ADA Carl. linotype operator.
TUNsTALL. ". G., linotype operator
WATSON. Edward. printer.
In addition, there are about twenty
injured, some of whom may die.
The original suspicion of the poice
that the disaster was due to heaVy
charge of a high, explosive was circum-
stantlally confirmed by the finding o.
the other bombs and the statements OF
those persons in the building or near ps
at the time of the explosion. 1t is also
almost certain that the explosion -oc-
Cured in a narrow alley that separated
the two buildings occupied by the
Times"
The foreman of the composing room
in which the full force of the explosion
was felt and where the greatest direct
damage was done, is firmly Of the or
ion that 1t was due TO dynamite in the
alley. His statement Is the clearest vel
obtainable. He said:
Il was standing near the centre of the
composing room when all at once ter
rife force from below seemed to raise
section of the floor clear TO the ROOF
The upheaval came between two limo
type machines. Frames and broken tim
beers flew in all directions. The force O
the thing was indescribable. Gran
Moore. a machinist, was directly oVel
the spot where the impact went through
the floor His body was hurled against
the ceiling. z. A. Jordan, a head setter
and Z. w. WATSON, galley man, were
nearest to him, and they, too. were
hurled against the ceiling of the com
posing room, Every one of the type
setting machines was thrown and hurled
in all directions"
A disavowaI of labor union RESPONSE
bility for'"The Tines dynamiting came
to-day from the strike committee of the
metal trades. members of which nave
been on strike for some months, and be-
! tween which organization and The
Times there has been great bitterness
The committees statement in part fol-
lows:
1.-The union labor men III Los Angeles
| deplore deeply the loss Of life and IN
Jury in the explosion and fire at 'Iht
! Times plant. The unions declare thai
| the statement in The Times that the
explosion was caused by some person
or persons connected with organized la
Dor here or elsewhere, is false. Ever
since the beginning of union labor here
| violence of every sort has been con-
demned in public and private No unlor
man has been permitted to commit any
act of violence, be it ever so slight, MOI
have the unions failed vigorously to de-
mand that their members obey the
laws
Financial Loss, $450,0cO.
The building in which THE Times" was
housed was of stone and brick. A part o
it was of four stories of stone and wa
built in 1887 Six stories Of brick were
added later. The American Engraving
COMPANY and the American Electrical
| Company, both subsidiary companies OF tn
Times Mirror Printing Company. wer'
housed in the building Mr.. Chandler esti
mated the financial loss at $4,000, will
insli ance OF S225,0G
All the editors and reporters had gon
| home. with the exception of two or three
men. The assistant city editor, Harvey c
| Elder. was still on duty. When the ex
plosion came and the flames shot III
through all parts Of the building, Elder wa
stunned. but attempted to escape. Finding
exit by the stairway shut off, he ran to tn
windows, which opened out from the thirt
floor on Broadway.
There were no fre-escapes there. and
hemmed in by flames. he jumped. Firemei
below held net, but he missed it, an
struck the pavement. He died soon after
ward.