The San Francisco call., 1910-10-10
VICTIMS OF THE
7IMESDISAS1ER
Laid TO REST
Seventeen Buried in Nameless
Graves Under Single Monu-
ment to Their Memory
Wall OF Grief Mingles With
Organ at Services and Be.
reaved Women Collapse
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

Especial Dispatch to The Call
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 9-Los Angeles
today mingled its tears with the ashes
of it's dead.
The warm southern sun looked down
upon city of mourning. With eyes
that were moist and voices low and
heavy with emotion, it's citizens gath
cred to do reverance to those whose
lives had been sacrificed in the ex-
plosion at the Times building. Prayer
and song told the story of their sor-
row at the vast auditorium. The sweet
bell chimes of the Mission chapel tolled
in grief as the II caskets were borne
to the open graves at Hollywood ceme-
lxery 1t was 6 o'clock tonight when
the last of the mourners left the citadel
of the dead.
THOUSANDS GATHER
Four thousand persons met with COM
mon purpose at the spacious theater at
Fifth and Olive streets. AS many. un-
able to find space within, waited in the
public park near by or lined the curb.
In the center of the hall, in deepest
black, sat the bereaved wives and
daughters, sons and mothers and
| fathers.
AS the first note of the organ sound
ed and the curtain Of purple velvet
began slowly to ascend, wall OF
grief, gripping in the intensity of its
despair, arose above the music. Tears,
until then held back, dampened the
faces of the strongest.
AS the drapery rolled upward it
disclosed a forest setting. Flowers
were banked in beautiful clusters about
the half circle Of the stage. From
them rose the caskets of palest blue,
forming an arc that stretched from
wing to wing. Blossoms were strewn
above. The tree tops melted into the
azure
A blanket of crysanthemums. sweet
peas and roses. wrought into replica
of the building that had been wrecked,
was the tribute of the Times staff. A
floral wire, broken and dropping be-
tween two standards, bore its message
from the comrades of R. l.. Sawyer,
the telegrapher. On the crossbar in
violets was the numeral 49," the de-
spatchers' code for good night"
CHOIR CHANTS
Words of consolation, of hope, of
courage came from the clergy Of the
city. A choir of so voices chanted The
Lost Chord" Robert J. Burdette wove
dramatically into serman the story Of
the catastrophe. Slowly again the cur
tain fell with the closing tones of the
tender hymn Good Night
On the western terraces of the ceme-
terry leaves of white roses were cast
upon the graves. The most impressive
of tributes was brought to a close The
shrieks of the widowed were stilled.
The birds, returning from the bushes,
filed the breeze with their song.
The mourners and spectators over
take dthe capacity of funeral train
comprising more than score of SUBJ
urban trolley cars.
The funeral was held at o'clock.
An hour before that time the bodies
were transferred from the undertaker's
morgue' to the Auditorium.
No names were engraved upon the
somber gray collins, as had been
planned for none ever had been iden-
titled beyond doubt. The memories of
all will be perpetuated upon the marble
shaft of monument which will mark
their common resting place.
Before the service was over two
women collapsed. One of them, Mrs.
John Howard, wife of one of the slain
linotype operators, was carried out
shrieking. A number of nurses were
on hand and went also to the ceme-
tary. where their ministrations were
needed by other women mourners.
In his funeral address DR.. Burdette
eulogized the victims of the explosion
as~sheroic martyrs to duty, who had
gone on working faithfully in spite of
frequent threats that they would be
killed in the manner In which they
finally did meet death. He voiced a
justification of the position Of General
Otis and his newspaper have taken re-
garding the motives that prompted the
destruction of the plant and it's men
and the attempted blowing up of the
homes of General Otis and of F. j.
Zeehandelaar. secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association.
Before the funeral service platoon
of police was thrown around the Audi
torium. A large detail Of plain clothes
men also were. on duty. but there was
nothing for them to do. At no time
during the day was there a hint of dis
order. The crowd was quiet and,
though eager to join those inside the
theater, the police experienced no diff
Guilty in handling them.
Protest Urged
BERKELEY, Oct 9.-'There has not
been sufficient protest against the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times
building. 1t is the duty of the church
and the press of this country to cry
out against such acts of violence, no
matter by whom they are perpetrated.
nor against whom they are directed
said Rev Samuel c. Patterson, pastor
Of the North Berkeley Congregational
church, in sermon this evening upon
the moral aspect of the Los Angeles
disaster.
After introducing the subject by say
ing that he wished to deal with the
moral aspects of the question from
purely impersonal point of view, Rev.
Mr.. Patterson told of the conditions
in Los Angeles preceding the dyna-
miting. He said that the spirit of
rivalry and open hostility which had
existed between organized labor and
the merchants OF that city was wrong.
I'm my opinion, labor has as much
right to organize as capital, and vice
versa he said. .A1l orgenization which
is for the good of the community is /
to be commended. but as soon as there
springs up spirit of antagonism be-
tween these organized forces the re-
suit is to be deplored. The attacks
made upon each other by these two
parties in Los Angeles, and the fact
that violence was ultimately resorted
to- shows to what a dangerous ex-
treme this spirit Of organization may
rum, ~
( .sThe problem presented by the dyna-
nitins of the Times building is larger