The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-02
lGate City Leased Wire Service.

[Gate City Leased Wire SerWce.l
\ LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct 1.-Sur-
kounded by body guard Of private
tetectives, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,
bwner and publisher of the Los An
keles Times, which was wrecked by
lltynanite and fire this morning, step
!, bed from train at the Arcade Station
this afternoon.
Otis was met at the depot by a
crowd of four hundred friends. amon'
whom we're two score veterans of the
civil war
He was cheered, and dozens of his
forme. comrades embraced and kissed
him, while tears streamed down his
face, after he had been greeted by
the members of his immediate family.
Otis refused to. comment on the
dynamiting of The Times building, or
on the attempt to blow UP his OWL
lone With the Times building a
mass of smoking ruins, and two other
/ attempts to dynamite recorded today,
Los Angeles tonight is in condition
bordering on anarchy.
Late this evening several hundred
4 Springfield rifles were recovered from
j the armory national guard, and stored
in the station
The laboring men of Los Angeles
have expressed horror at the happen.
ings of the last "a hours, but they are
thoroughly angered by the allegations
Of certain publications that they were
responsible for the outrage.
Another Attempt.
What the authorities believe was an
other attempts at dynamiting occurred
late this afternoon. Three men. one
CARRYING suit case similar to that il
which the Internal machine was fount
at the Otis house, were found trying
10 force an entrance into the base
nlent of the Otis warehouse. A watch
man fred three shots at the trio al
they fed.
Among the ruins of the Times build
Ing one hundred men are working to
niaht searching for the bodies of tn
sixteen men who are believed to III
beneath the debris. What was ider
fifed by q police surgeon as a human
thigh Zone, was the only relic recoN
cred The workers say the bodie
which are certain to have been buried
PROBABLY We're burned to crisp an
crumbled and will never be recovered
Vhp pn1y ,tncctI,1. Of 1oa rn i II
the number of the dead will he b
checking the missing after tim
enough has elapsed for those una
counted for to report
During the excitement following th
destruction of the Times establish
rent. little attention was paid to III
entire demolition of the modest thre
Story building Of the Baugartner Erin
Ing company adjoining This plan
SAID to be one of the most complef
In the southwest. was almost total
WrecEed by the explosion and fir
Ulcers Of the company late tonigl
estimated their loss at 100000.
The Times loss will approXima
100000
Sixteen Killed.
me destruction Of the Los ANGEL
llnes, resulting in the death of 81
teen persons and the subsequent e
llosion CT homh taken from benea
me home Of Gen. Gray Otis. publisht
and fomhs found primed against OF
er sympathizers are being investigat'
tonight by city no!ice and private 9
'eetlves. The Times owner open
Charged that the alleged dynamite
IS the elimination of the feud that h
peen waged between the paper a
union labor since 1891.
4 whether or not the investigati
/ VIII show this to be true, the exp
] SONS today are considered here t
! efsis in the fight. In 1891, Genel
4 ous became involved in an altercati
q WIN his printers Otis is fighter a
q Shen he decided that he could /
Il asfee with his employees, he told the
n " go and never come back He
q AIRED that from then and thencefol
ne Times was to be run "open sho
'he Times ives the first paper IN
Ft' to announce such policy T
pogfaphical Union was rich a
NJ soe ip Of highly intelligent N,
"peh Otis threw down the gauge