The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-10-07
Plant Of the Los Angeles Times
Reduced TO Ruins
MANY LIVES LOST IN WRECK
anfernai Machine Later Found at Home
of General Otis, Who Has For
Twenty Years Been Waging War
With Union Labor-Another For
Secretary of Merchants Association,
Also Opponent of Unionism

Los Angeles, Cal. Oct. 3.-An at
tempt to destroy the residence OF
General Harrison G.. Otis, publisher
of the Los Angeles Times, by means
of an Internal machine, was made
after an explosion which. an hour af-
ter midnight, caused great loss OF
life and destroyed the buildings and
plant of The Times and a suspected
effort to blow up the auxiliary plant
of that paper. A powerful Internal
machine was also found in the resi-
dence of Secretary Zeehaidelaar of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
association.
home from Mexico, and the other re-
sponsible heads of The Times, un-
equivocally charge The Times build
ing disaster and the narrowly averted
attempts at further destruction of life
and property to labor union sources.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor repudiate the accusation
and offer all aid in their power to de-
tect the culprits.
For twenty years since a quarrel
with the Typographical union and The
Times becoming a nom union paper,
Otis has fought unionism with every
resource in his command. He has
been ably seconded in this fight by
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation, whose secretary was the
object of frustrated dynamiting.
The succession of tragic events and
the rumors of other attempted out
RACES set the populace Of Los Angeles
in a state Of mind bordering on panic.
Hundreds of policemen and detectives
are busy in every direction running
down clues and endeavoring to find the
perpetrators of the crimes.
Mayor Alexander and the city coun-
Gil, meeting with other city officers
and labor union leaders, agreed to call
tonight as a demonstration against
local conditions alleged to be hostile
to the interests of union labor.
The death list of The Times disaster
will probably total nineteen. There
are five known dead and fourteen miss
ing, whose bodies probably lie in the
smoking ruins of The Times building.
The original suspicion of the police
that The Times building disaster was
due to a heavy charge of a high ex-
plosive was circumstantially con-
firmed by the finding of the other
~ ha 90 Of those
persons in the building or nearby at
the time of the explosion. 1t is also
almost certain that the explosion oc-
CURED in a narrow alley which sep
arated the two buildings occupied by
The Times.
The building in which The Times
was housed was of stone and brick.
The American Engraving company and |
American Electrical company, both |
subsidiary companies of The Times
Mirror Printing company, were housed |
in the building. The financial loss is |
estimated at $3.50, 900, with insurance
of 1925, 900.
The dead and missing come princi- |
pally from the composing room, which |
was directly above the spot where the
explosion occurred.
Under the stimulus of proffered re-
wards aggregating 800, 900, hun
dreds of policemen, detectives and
private citizens in all Pacific coast
cities are searching for clues which
may lead TO the arrest of the con-
spirators who blew up The Times
Police and civil officers believe that
at least three men were concerned in
the outrages. and the city has placed
a price of SIC. 900 on the head of each.