Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-10-11
ONE BOMB KILLS 20
PLANT OF LOS ANGELES TIMES is
DESTROYED WITH MANY
FATALITIES.
HOMES MENAcED IN PLOT
Internal Machines Found Beneath Res
licences of Two Bitter Foes to Or
ganized Labor-Big Reward Offered
for Capture of Perpetrators.

Los Angeles, Cal.-At least twenty
men lost their lives Saturday when
the building occupied by the Les
Angeles Times Publishing company
was destroyed by fire.
The fire was preceded by an explo-
sion and Immediately the building was
enveloped in flames. The blast oc-
Cured on the second floor of an adj
dition to the old building. This is OF
three floors Within a few seconds
the entire structure was a fiery fur
mace.
The havoc of the explosion was
greatest in the mechanical depart
ments, and the majority of the dead
and injured were members of these
departments. Twenty-Five injured were
taken to the receiving hospital
Within twelve hours after the
wrecking of the Times plant an at
tempt was made to destroy the resi-
dence of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, pub
Usher of the paper, by means of an in
fernal machine.
The bomb was discovered in a suit
case hidden under bunch of vines
near a bay window and was exploded
as it was hurled into the street by
police officers. Little damage was
done.
Another Internal machine was found
earlier in the day at the residence of
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation.
General Otis and the other respon-
sible heads of the paper charge the
Times building disaster and narrowly
ayerted attempts at further destruc-
ton of life and property to labor union
sources. The property damage is esti-
mated at 100000.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor here and throughout The
state repudiate the accusation and
have offered all aid in their power in
the effort to detect the culprits.
For twenty years, following quar-
rel with the typographical union,
which resulted in making the Times a
nonunion paper, General Otis has
fought unionism with every resource
at his command. He has been ably
seconded in this fight by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
whose secretary was the object of
frustrated dynamiting.
The president of the local typo
graphical union issued orders that
union printers may work in conjunc-
ton with the nonunion printers of the
Times in any of the local newspaper
offices in getting out the edition of
the Times.
The city council met in special ses-
sion and appropriated $4,000 for the
purpose of determining the cause of
the Times explosion and provided a
reward of $4,000 for the capture OF
those responsible for the outrage.
Los Angeles, Cal-Searchers in the
ruins Of the Los Angeles Times builds
ing, which was destroyed by an ex-
plosion and fire Saturday morning,
came upon seven charred bodies at
the foot of the elevator shaft Monday.
The bodies could not be recognized.
Five bodies, all badly cbarred, had
been previously recovered. The man
agement of the Times announces that
it now appears certain that twenty
one were killed.
1t is asserted by physicians in
charge of the injured that probably
none will die, though several may be
crippled for life.
Squads of detectives are constantly
on guard at the home of General Otis
and his son-in-law, Harry Chandler,
general manager of the Times, and
F. J. Zeehandelaar, to prevent further
attempts to wreck the houses.