The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-10-11
"DETAILS or THE
Los ANGELES
TRAGEDY
Latest Account of the Crime
Which Shocked Entire
Nation.
ELDER JUMPS THREE STORIES
Foreman Of Composing Room Is
Saved by Being Blown
Through Floor.
ELDER JUMPS THREE STORIES
CFrOm saturdays Advertlser.)

CFrom Saturdays Advertiser)
The first complete details of the ter.
rible tragedy in the Los Angeles Times
building early ON the morning of octo.
Der l were received in Honolulu yes.
terday in the San Francisco Evening
Post of that date. While Honolulu has
already learned the main facts Of the
6astardly crime by cable, the real ter
ror of that explosion was hardly pic
tured in the brief messages which were
received here. A late dispatch in the
Post tells of the death of Churchill
Harvey Elder, former city editor of Tho
Advertiser, whose awful fate shocked
hundred friends here, It said;
Churchill Harvey Elder, the assist.
ant city editor, who was terribly in.
jured by the flames and by leaping from
third-story window to the street pave.
ment, died at the hospital at seven.
thirty O'Clock, He suffered terrible
agony from the time he was removed
from the burning building to the hos.
pital, and no hope of his recovery was
entertained at any time by the attend.
ing surgeons"
of the bloody events Immediately
following the explosion of the bomb,
which seems to have gone off in the
basement, the Post said:
| The head and missing come princi.
pally from the eomposing-room of the
paper, which was directly above the
spot where the explosion occurred. The
bodies of a number Of printers and
linotype operators are believed to be
buried in the still burning debris in the
basement of the building.
4" In the local newsroom Of the paper
all of the editors and reporters had gone
home, with the exception of two or
three men. Assistant City Editor Har-
vey- Elder was still on duty, and suf-
fered injuries from which he died later.
When the explosion came and the flames
shot up through all parts Of the build
ing, Harvey Elder was badly injured,
but attempted to escape. Finding exit
| by the stairway shut off, he ran to the
windows which opened out from the
third floor on Broadway. There was no
| fire escape there, and, hemmed in by
flames, he was forced to jump. Fire
men below held net and he jumped,
pavement. His right leg was broken,
and besides his serious burns he was
badly injured internally.
Telegraph Men Missing.
"Night Editor Taggart was at work
in the composing-room. He leaped
through a window and made his way
out across the roofs of adjoining build.
ings to safety.
"The entire force Of editors and OPP
orators was at work in the telegraph
room, excepting Telegraph Editor R. n.
Whitney, formerly of Boston, who but
few moments before had left the office
to go to his home. He heard the explo.
sion and returned. Harry L. Crane, the
assistant telegraph editor, was at his
desk and was seen to rise and attempt
to make his way out of the building.
He was not found among the survivors
and is believed to have persisted.
"R. L. Sawyer, a Western Union op.
orator, is also missing. With another
employee Sawyer, who was crippled and
humpbacked, started to make his way
TO the stairway. The man with Sawyer
finally escaped by leaping through
third-story window to a net stretched
below and was saved. Sawyer has not
| been found.
"Several men we're seen by spectators
to come to the upper windows few
minutes after the fire broke out and
wave and cry for help. The fremen
failed to get their ladders up quick
enough and the flames burst out below
them. Nets were stretched and the peo-
pie at the windows were called ON to
jump. Many did and they alighted
safely. Others hesitated, and, accord
ing to the statements of the first spec
tators, fell back into the flames
Andrews' Close Call
Managing Editor Andrews escaped,
having left the building and gone TO his
home but short time before the explo
sion occurred. He heard the explosion
| from a distance Of more than two miles,
and at once surmising that the Times
had been the object of an attack by its
enemies, hurried downtown. City Editor
John l.. Won Blon had close call, hay.
ing left the building but q short while
before the explosion.
"sim Craybill, foreman of the com
posing room, had Que Of the most re.
variable escapes. lie was standing
near the eenter-of the room whore the
full force Of the explosion was felt.
lie was hurled into the basement and
made bis way out through paper
chute by crawling on bis hands ana
knees, being terribly burned about the
face and hands,
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survivors, Description.
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