Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-03
Times Building Blown Up--Cen. Otis
Home Threatened -19 Dead and
Many d--0utrage Charged
To Union Labor Men.

explosion were Mrs. Harry Chandler,
daughter of Gen. Otis, and a relative,
Mrs. Booth, and the latters two chill
dren.
Before the suit case was found there
was only Japanese servant and a cook
and Focken in the house.
The women and children reached the
house just after the chief of police ar
rived, to prepare for the homecoming Of
Gen. Otis. who was soon due to arrive.
The Internal machine found at Mr..
Zeehandelaar's residence was composed
of Is sticks of giant powder, attached to
a fuse and set by clock work to explode
at l o'clock in the morning, the same
hour at which the explosion occurred in
the Times office. The bomb was first dis
servant, who called an officer. Had not
some part of the mechanism failed to
work the house would probably have been
demolished and it's inmates killed.
Assistant General Manager Chanler
of the Times says that an attempt was
made to blow up the Times auxiliary
plant at College and San Fernandino
streets. few minutes before the eX-
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.
Hundreds of policemen and detectives
were busy in every direction running
down clues and endeavoring to find the
perpetrators of the crimes. Only two
arrests were made and there is little
indication of completely on the part of
the prisoners.
The president of the local Typograph-
ical Union issued orders that union
printers may work in conjunction with
the non-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 be-
tween the union men and the managers
of the other newspapers.
The city council met in special ses-
sion during the day and appropriated
$4,000 for the purpose of determining
the cause of the Times explosion. and
providing 9 reward of $500 for the
capture of those responsible for the
outrage
Mayor Alexander and the city cOun-
ell. meeting with other city officers and
labor leaders during the day, agreed
to call off the union labor parade
planned for next Monday night as
demonstration against local conditions
alleged to be hostile to the interests OF
union labor.
The death list will probably total 10.
There are four known dead and Is
missing. whose bodies probably lie in
the still smoking ruins of the Times
building. The dead: ".
Harvey G.. Elder, assistant city edi-
tor burned and fatally injured leap
ing from burning building; died in hos
pital.
]. Wesley Reaves. secretary Of AS
sistant General Manager Chandler;
body in ruins.
r, l.. Sawyer, telegraph operator,
body in ruins.
editor: body in ruins.
The missing:
J. g. Galliher. linotype operator;
leaves wife and five children.
w, G. Tunstall, linotype operator;
married.
John Howard printer; married, one
child.
Grant Moore. machinist; married,
three children.
X. Edward WATSON, printer: mar.
ried
Elmer Frink, operator; married.
Eugene Caress. married, one child.
Don. f. Johnson, operator; married
Ernest Jordan, operator; married,
one child
Frank Underwood: married, one
child.
Charles CULVER, compositor; mar
red.
Carl Salaada, linotype operator.
Harry FLYNN, linotype operator
Walter Cordway, linotype operator.
In addition there are about 20 in
jured. some of whom may die.
The original suspicion OF the police
that the Times building disaster was
due to a heavy charge of high ex-
plosive was circumsrantIally 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 al
most certain that the explosion &C.
Cured in a narrow alley which sepa-
rated the two buildings occupied by
the Times.
Foreman Ora. bill, of the composing
, room. in which the full force of the
explosion was felt and where the
greatest direct damage was done, is
firmly of the opinion that it was due
TO dynamite in the alley. His state