The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-06

peCLeQ OF having set OH the uyldll4itS
bomb which wrecked the Office of the
Los Angeles Times. They are being
held for Identification.
Los Angeles, Cal-Estimate grow
as the canvass of the possible dead in
the explosion and fire which destroyed
the office of the Los Angeles Times
continues. Sunday paper Suffers"
the men who put the various sections
of the Sunday papers together, and
mailers were just going on duty as
the explosion took place, and how
many of these men were in the base
ment of the building at the time of the
explosion is a matter of conjecture.
From an early estimate of fifteen dead
the figures now have been put up to
from fifty to sixty. These figures take
in the possible 'Istuffers," young men
usually drawn from the schools who
are anxious to make a little extra
spending money.
An attempt to destroy the residence
of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. publish
er Of the Los Angeles Times, by
means of an internal machine was
made Saturday afternoon Following
as it does the explosion which had
previously occurred with great loss of
life, destroying the buildings and
plant of the Times, a suspected effort
to blow up the auxiliary plant of the
paper and the finding of a powerful
Internal machine in the residence Of
Secretary Zeehandelaar, of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton, the attempted outrage has
wrought this city to an intense state
Of suspense and excitement.
General Otis and the other respon-
sible, heads Of the paper unequivocally
charge the Times building disaster
and the narrowly averted attempts at
further destruction of life and prop
erty to labor union sources.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor here and throughout the
United States repudiate the accusation
and locally they have offered all aid
in their power in the effort to detect
the culprits.
A quarrel with the Typographical
union twenty years ago resulted in
making the Times a non-union paper.
General Otis has fought union labor
with every resource at his command.
He has been ably seconded in this
fight by the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association, whose secreta-
ry was the object of frustrated dyna-
hitting Saturday.
The feeling which ran high through
out the city over the Times district
was augmented when the startling dis
covery was made thai a. dynamite
bomb had been fou}41 Under the resi-
dence of Secretary Zeehandelaar, and
reached a state of alarm and conster-
nation when the attempt on General
Otis residence became known.
The Otis home is known as the
"Bivouac," and stands on Wiltshire
avenue, in the most fashionable sec
ton of the city After the finding
delaar residence, Detective Rice was
sent to the "Rivouac" to make search
of the premises. With Charles Flock
er, the gardener, he found a suitcase
hidden under bunch of vines under
a bay window on the side of the
house fronting Westlake park. De-
tective Rice te1ephoned Chief of Po-
lice Galloway, who went Immediately
to General Otis house. Together they
examined the suitcase. Chief Gallo
way wanted to take it to the police
station without opening it. Rice in
sisted upon opening it there, and final
ly stuck a knife into the side of the
receptacle. A bunch of mechanism
was heard inside and smoke began
coming out around the edges Of the
aperture.
Convinced that the suitcase contain
ed bomb, Chief Galloway hurled it
as far from him as he could. 1t land
ed against the curbstone on the oppo-
site side of the street. Immediately
there was a loud explosion, and the
suitcase was shattered into thousand
pieces. A hole was torn in the ground
and the curbstone was ripped out for
some distance.
"A large crowd collected, and there
was much excitement in the vicinity.
In the house at the time was Mrs. Ma
rion Otis Chandler, wife of Assistant
General Manager Chandler of the
Times, and another woman, two chill
dren and the Otis servants.
The internal machine found at Mr..
Zeehande1aar's residence was COM
posed of fifteen sticks of giant pow
der attached to a fuse and set by
c1ockwork to explode at o'clock in
the morning-the same hour at which
the explosion occurred at the Times
office
The bomb was first discovered at
the Zeehandelaar home by a servant,
who called a special officer, and he
reported to the police. Had not some
part of the mechanism of the bomb