The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-10-04
DYNAMITE OUTRACES
EXCITE Los ANGELES
THE TIMES BUILDING DESTROY
ED WITH LOSS OF 19 LIVES.
Gen. Otis, Owner of Paper, and Other
Responsible Heads Assert Disas-
ter Work of Labor Interests.

Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the
Los Angeles Times by means OF all
internal machine, was made late to-
Gay, following an explosion which
early today caused great loss Of life
and destroyed the buildings and plant
O. The Times, entailing loss OF
nearly s500,O00, and a suspended et-
fort to blow up the auxiliary plant OF
that paper A powerful Internal ma
chine was also found today in the
residence of Secretary Zeehandelaar
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
association.
Accuse Labor Unions.
Gen. Otis, who is on his way home
from Mexico, and the other respcn-
sible heads of The Times, unequivo-
cally charge The Times building dis
aster and the narrowly averted at
terqpts at further destruction Of life
aid property to labor union sources.
With equal emphasis, the leaders of
union labor repudiate the accusation
and offer all aid in their power to de-
tect the culprit.
This afternoon The Times made
public the following telegram from
Gen. Otis:
"Your wire with it's terrible news
reached me this morning. an
amazed at the desperation of the crlGl-
5naI conspirators in DESTROYING The
Times building and Staying its local
defenders, whose loss I deeply de-
plore; but The Times itself will live
on, bravely defending the vital and
esseatia! principle of industrial free
~ Under law, which must yet trl-
z,mph in the entire nation.
(Signed) Harrison Gray Otis
Had Fought Unions.
For 20 years, following a quarrel
with the Typographical union and 1he
changing of The Times to non-unlon
Daper, Gen. Otis has fought unlonlsm
with every resource at his command
He has been seconded in this hight by
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
sociation, whose secretary was the
object of the attempt at dypamltlng
today. Feeling ran high throughout
the city during the day over Ihe
Times disaster and was augmented by
4hn discovery that a dynamite bomb
had been found under the residence
of Secretary Zeehandelaar. The pub
lie reached state of alarm aci con-
sternation when the attempt C DloW
ND Ccn: Otis home became known.
The Otis home, known as the Bl-
youac." stands on Wiltshire avenue
IN the most fashionable quarter OF me
CITY. After the finding Of the internal
machine at the Zeehandelaar resi-
dence, Detective Rice was sent to
esThe Bivouac" to search the prem
ises.
Found Inferpal Machine.
Aided by Charles Focuen, the gard
ener, he found suit case hldGen IN
q bunch Of vines under bay win
dow on the side of the house front
ing Westlake park. Defective Rlce
1elephoned Chief of Police GALLOWAY,
who went Immediately to Gen. Otis
house. Chief of Police Galloway want
ed to take it to the police station with
out opening.
Rice insisted on opening it there
and finally stuck a knife through the
sided of the case. A buzz of mechaE-
ism was heard Inside and smoke oozed
out
Convinced that the suit case con-
.1ainea bomb, Chief Galloway Or
sdered the Internal machine rushed
over to the park where its explosion
=eould do but little damage.
Carried 1t Away.
RICE picked it up and dashed across
street. Putting it down, they sped
away, and put about 100 feet between
them and the bomb when it went of
with a crash that threw the entire
neighborhood into panic.
The explosion tore out a portion oi
the curbing of the street parallellng
the park. Branches of a tree directly
overhead we're torn off together with
a portion of the park fence. A plate
4ylass wind shield fronting porcn IN
fhe f3fis home also was shattered.
Rice sa1a the internal machine
weighed about 50 pounds.
In the Otis home at the time OF the
explosion we're Mrs. Harry Chandler
daughter of the general, and a rela-
two Mrs. Booth, and the latter's TWO