Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1910-10-06
NEWSPAPER PLANT IS
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE
Establishment Of Los Angeles
Times Destroyed BY EzpIOsidn.
TWENTY EMPLOYEES ARE KILLED
Manager Of Paper Asserts That Labor Y Mons
Are Responsible for Disaster, But
the Unions Enter Denial

Los Angeles, CaI-The building oc
eupied by the Los Angeles Times was
destroyed by fire, which was pFeeipi
tated by an explosion. Nineteen men
employees of the newspaper, are miss
ing, and are believed to have polished
in the flames.
Three hundred men digging heeas-
ingly for thirty hours in tlf&s bbris
have unearthed five of the ! oteen
bodies buried in the ruins III 4shoY-
ell brigade is aided by a huge rail
way crane and derrick which lis lift
ing out the remains of heavy steel.
Later, an attempt to destrby the
residence of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,
publisher of The Times, by means of
an Internal machine, was made. Fol-
lowing as it did the explosion which
with great loss of life destroyed the
buildings and plant of The Times. a
suspected effort to blow up the auxil-
larry plant of the paper and the find
ing OF a powerful Internal machine in
the residence of Secretary Zeehand-
laar of tne Merchants and Manufac-
turers' Association, the attempted
outrage has wrought this city to au
intense state of suspense anS excite
ment.
General Otis and the other respon-
sible heads of the paper uneQuivoca-
bly, charge The Times building disas
ter and the narrowly averted attempts
at further destruction OF life ana prop
erty to labor unions.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor here and throughout the
United States repudiate the accusa-
ton, and locally they have offered all
aid in their power in the effort to de
tect the culprits.
A quarrel with the Typographical
Union twenty years ago resulted in
making The Times a non-union paper.
General Otis has fought unionism with
every resource at his command. He
has been ably seconded in this fight
by the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, whose secretary was the
obje@ Of frustrated dynamitlng.
In me nope bf EeeuFines sTnation
as to the perpetrators Of sagdtfage,
Mayor Alexander has offered a reward
of $4,000 This. together with the
offers of local newspapers and labor
organizations whose leaders have an
nounced determination to assist in
the search fro the criminals, raises
the total amount Of profferad rewards
to S1S,5O0. The city,s offer is intend
ed to tempt any one having knowl-
edge of dynamite conspiracy to d.
vulge the secret There are no con-
ditions.
The succession of tragic events and
the rumors of attempted outrages set
the populace of Los Angeles in state
of mind bordering on panic. Hundreds
of policemen and detectives were
busy in every direction running down
clues and endeavoring to locate the
alleged perpetrators of the crimes.
But two arrests nave been made and
these were only on suspicion.
The original suspicion that the dis
aster was due to the discharge OF high
explosives was practically confirmed
by the finding of other bombs and the
statements of those persons in the
building or nearby at the time of the
the explosion.
The president of the local typo
graphical union mas issued orders that
union printers may work in conjunc-
ton with non-union printers OF The
Times in any of the local newspaper
offices in getting out the edition OF
The Times. This was announced al
ter a consultation of the union men
and the managers of the other news
papers.
indianapolis, Ind-President james
M. Lynch of the international Typo
graphical Union issued statement
relative to the explosion that wreck
ed the plant of the Los Angeles
Times. He states that the union IS
in no way responsible for the catas-
trophe.