Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-02
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plosion destroyed the main building
| The succession of tragic events and
| the rumors of other attempted out
| RACES set the populace~ OF Los Angeles in
state Of mind bordering on panic. Hun
| dreds of police and detectives were busy
| in every direction running down clues and
endeavoring to findsthe perpetrators of
the crimes.
Two Arrests Made.
Only two arrests were made. There is
| little indication of completely on the
part of the prisoners.
The president of tho local Typographical
union issued orders that union printers
may work in conjunction with the nom
union printers of the Times in any OF
| the local newspaper offices in setting up
| copy for the Times. This was announced
after a consultation Of the union men and
the managers of the other newspapers.
The city council met in special session
during the day and appropriated $2o,oOo
| for the purpose of determining the cause
| of the Times explosion, and provided
| reward of $500 for the capture of those
responsible for the outrage.
Mayor Alexander and the city council,
meeting with other city officers and labor
union leaders. during the day. agreed to
| call off the union labor parade planted
for next Monday night as demonstra-
ton against local conditions alleged to be
hostile to the interests of union labor.
Union Labor Defends Itself.
A disavoal of labor union respon-
sibility for the Times dynamiting
came today from tho strike committee
of the metal trades, members OF which
have been on strike for some months,
and between which organization and
the Times there has been great bitter
ness.
The committees statement follows:
deplore deeply the loss OF life and in
jury in the explosion and fire at the
Times plant.
1.-THE unions declare that the state
ment in the Times that the explosion
was caused by some person or persons
connected with organized labor here or
elsewhere, is false.
Ever since the beginning OF union
| labor here violence Of every sort has
been condemned in public and private.
No union man has been permitted to COM
init any act of violence, be it ever so
slight, nor have the unions failed rig
orously to demand that their members
obey the laws.
I'VE believe that success can be won
| only by peaceful reasoning and showing
the laboring man his rights and duties.
I'VE therefore deny unequtvocal!y that
knowledge had anything to do with
any violence against the Times en-
ployes or property.
I'VE stand ready and willing to do all
in our power to aid in a thorough in
vestigation Of the explosion"
Dead and Missing.
The death list of this mornings dis
aster will probably total nineteen. There
are four known dead and fifteen missing,
whose bodies probably lie in the still
smoking ruins Of the Times building.
The dead are.
Harvey c. Elder, assistant city editor,
burned and fatally injured 1eaping from
burning building; died in hospital.
j. Wesley Reaves. secretary to Assist
ant General Manager Chandler, body In
ruins.
R. L. Sawyer, telegraph operator; body
in ruins.
editor; body In ruins.
The missing:
]. c. Galliher. linotype operator: leaves
widow and five children.
w. G. Tunstall, linotype operator; mar
ried.
Fred Llewellyn, linotype operator; mar
ried.
John Howard. printer; married; one
child.
Grant Moore, machinist; married; three
children.
Edward WATSON; printer; married.
Elmer Frink, operator; married.
Eugene Caress, married. one child.
Don e. Johnson. operator; married. =
Ernest Jordan, operator; married; one
child.
Frank Underwood. married; one child.
Charles CULVER, compositor; married.
Carl Saalada, linotype operator.
Harry Flynn, linotype operator.
Walter COrdway. linotype operator.
In addition there are about twenty in
jured, some of whom may die.
Explosion From Alley.
The original suspicion of the police that
the Times building disaster was due to
a heavy charge of high explosive was
circumstantially confirmed by the finding
Of the other bombs. and the statements
of those persons in the building or near
by at the time Of the explosion, 1t Is
also almost certain that the explosion
occurred in a narrow alley that separated
the two buildings occupied by the Times.
Foreman Graybill OF the composing
room, in which the full force of the ex-
plosion was felt, and where the greatest
direct damage was done. is firmly of
opinion that it was due to dynamite in
the alley. His statement is the clearest
yet obtainable. He said:
II was standing near the center Of the
composing room. when all at once q
terrific force from below seemed to raise
a section OF the floor clear to the roof.
The upheaval came between two linotype
machines. Frames and broken timbers
flew in all directions. The force of the
thing indescribable.
Grant Moore machinist, was directly
over the spot where the impact came
through the floor His body was hurled
against the ceiling. E. A. Jordan, a |
head-setter. and E. w. WATSON, galley
man, were nearest to him. They, too.
were hurled against the ceiling of the
composing room.
Every one of the typesetting machines
was thrown and hurled in all directions"
Gen. Otis was absent from the city
when his newspaper plant was destroyed.
He is his way back to Los Angeles
from the City Of Mexico, whittier he went
some weeks ago as a representative of
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