The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-10-07

Los Angeles, Oct. Following the
explosion and fire which destroyed the
Times building, with the almost GER
tain loss of 10 lives and injury to more
than score others early this morning
the finding of dynamite bomb at 9 Is
a. m. under the residence Of f. j. Zee
handalaar, secretary Of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association and
another later in the day under the win
dow of the residence of General Harri-
son Gray Otis, editor-in-chief Of the
Times, kept this city in ferment of
excitement and made this day one of
sensational and tragic events.
Within a minute after the explosion
in the Times Office the instantaneous
ignition of gas from the pipes through
the, building caused flames to dart from
hundred windows and leap far above
the roof. It's force was greatest in the
heart of the building directly under the
composing room. The men working
there were thrown to the ground and
the linotype machines tumbled over
like house of cards.
There were 115 employees in the
building at the time, half hundred
others having left within half hour
before with the winding up the work
for the first edition.
Publication Not Interrupted.
Inc Times got out its regular issue
today printed on it's auxiliary plant,
provided, its management says, as a
safeguard against just such a disaster
as has befallen it. In this issue it
charged the labor unions, against
which it has waged bitter warfare for
20 years, with responsibility for the de-
struction of its plant and the conse-
quent loss of life and property. The
officials of the various unions have
been prompt to disavow responsibility
and to offer their assistance in the de-
lection of the perpetrators.
The city had hardly awakened to a
knowledge of the fullness of the disas-
ter. when the news that dynamite
bomb had been found under the house
of Felix Zeehandalaar swelled the ex-
element. The bomb, one of the clock
work kind, had been timed to do the
work at the exact moment that the ex-
plosion occurred in the Times build
ing, but through some flaw in its me-
chanism had failed to explode.
Bomb Found Under Window.
Discovery of the bomb at the Zee
handalaar house led to the finding of
one under a window at the residence
of General Otis, opposite Westlake
Park. This bomb exploded with great
force almost Immediately aftes 1t had
been carried into the park near the
Otis home.
City Gives $4,000 for Search.
AS soon as they could be reached,
the mayor called the city council into
extraordinary session and $4,000 was
appropriated to be used in running
down the alleged dynamiters. A con-
ference was also held between the
labor leaders and the chief of police
and it was mutually decided to call on
a labor demonstration that had been
planned for Monday against an anti
picketing ordinance recently passed by
the council, and under which large
number of arrests have been made
and men sent to jail.
The first step taken in the direction
Of ascertaining who are the guilty par
ties was the appointment of an inves-
tigating committee OF five. William
Mulholland, superintendent of the Los
Angeles Aqueduct, the big municipal
water project, is chairman. He has
identified one of the sticks OF dyna-
mite found in the Zeehandalaar bomb
by it's wrapping as part of shipment
for the aqueduct made from Giant,