The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-20
F UNERALS Of
TIMES VICTIMS


LOS ANGELES. October a.-scyen.
teen of the twenty or more men who
lost their lives 900 tbo explosion which
wrecked the Times newspaper plant
eight days ago. were laid Co rest to-
day in graves ranged side by side In
Hollywood Cemetery one funeral
service was held for AN In Temple Au.
ditorum, which was packed by $500
men and women while greater crowd
enable 20 enter stood outside en- sol.
emn silence
The ceremonies followed sermons In
nearly all the pulpits of the city de.
| nouncing the outrage, and it drew
forth a throng of mourners and Of
merely morbid spectators, which over.
taxed the capacity Of a funeral train
comprising more than a score of sub.
urban trolley cars.
The funeral was held at 2 o'clock,
An hour before that time the bodies
were transferred from the under
takers Morgue to the Auditorium, and
when the pressing crowd had been ad-
mitted and settled, the theater cur
tain rose amid an awesome silence,
disclosing a semi circle of fourteen
| Baskets which contained the shatter-
ed remains of the seventeen victims.
No names were engraved upon the
somber gray collins, as had been
planned, for none had been identified
| beyond doubt. The memories of all
will be perpetuated upon the marble
shaft of monument which will mark
their common resting place.
BURDETTE CONDUCTS SERVICES
Rev. DR.. Robert ]. Burdette, pastor
emeritus of Temple Baptist Church,
conducted the services, assisted by
two other clergymen. A chorus of
fifty men rendered several hymns.
Down in front of the stage, facing
the semi-circle of baskets, were seat
ed the members of the families be-
reaved by the work of the dynamiters,
Thanking them were white-capped
nurses from a nearby hospital, who
were called to render any assistance
that might happen to be needed
by those for whom the strain of a
week-long period of suspense in the
presence of death might prove too
great.
And they had work to do. Before the
service was over two women had col
lapsed One of them, Mrs. John How
ard, wife of one of the slain linotype
operators, was carried out shrieking
piercingly, and working in spasms of
agony. The nurses went also to the
cemetery, where their ministrations
were again in need by other women
mourners.
In his funeral address DR.. Burdette
eulogized the victims of the explosion
as heroic 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
r finally did meet death. He voiced a
justification of the position 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 Associa.
ton.
There are those who deplore the
attitude of the Times he said. This
is the attitude of the Times" he add,
ed, pointing to the caskets ranged be-
hind him on the stage.
WOMEN CARRIED OUT.
It was at this point that Mrs. How.
ard collapsed under her burden of
grief and as she was carried shrieking
out of the Auditorium, DR.. Burdette
exclaimed: ask her to suspend judg-
ment"
All the caskets were placed upon
one car, twenty-one others transports
ed the mourners and their friends, and
the throng of curious, out to Holly
wood Cemetery, where in the lap OF
the foothills, below the precipices and
crags of the neighboring mountains
will henceforth rest most Of those
slain in the disaster.
Before the funeral service a platoon
of police was thrown around the Audi
forum. 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 hint of dis
order. The crowd was quiet, and
though eager to join those inside the
theater, the police experienced nodifl
Guilty in handling them.
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