The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-10-08
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of dynamite or nitro glycerin. and the fire
that followed completed the destruction
of the entire plant, involving the death of
twenty-one employees and a property loss
of about a half-million dollars The vic
tins of the disaster included editorial
writer's, telegraphers, clerks and linotype
operators, and majority of them were
men with families.
Later in the day suit-cases containing
bombs were discovered at the residences
of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of
the Times, and Secretary Zeehandelaar of
the Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation. The mechanism of the internal
machine at the Zeehandelaar residence
had failed to work as intended. and the
one at the Otis residence was discovered
by the police and quickly taken to an adj
jacent park, where it exploded with tre-
mendous force. But for happy chance
in one instance and the promDtness of
police action in the other, two homes
would have been demolished and a num-
Der OF innocent women and children killed
in addition to the men slauf uttered in the
Times building.
While no positive identi fcation of the
perpetrators of this horrible crime has yet
been made, clues are being followed that
promise to lead to the discovery of the
tends. and rewards agf reaating 800, 600
are squirting public int rest and activity
in the search.
The Los Angeles Times has for many
years antagonized the labor unions and
employed non-uniu help, and Gen. Otis
and MIR. Zeehan6 e taar were both con-
SsplcuouS leaders in what they termed the
hight for industrial freedom, hence the
conclusion IS inevitable that the con-
spirators and iassassins were inspired by
fanatical dev otion to the cause of labor
dnlon1sm a I'd heartiess hatred of its op-
ponents. his does not imply that any
OF the labf II unions are responsible for the
crime, aid those organizations in Los
Angeles and at many other places
througf aout the country have been prompt
TO de- lounce the foul deed and proffer
their aid in the hunt for the criminals.
beS' des this, the union printers and the
pal@ers employing union labor rendered
I'd cir services and facilities to the Times
1T getting out its issues until its own
plant coul d be renewed.
Paul j. Braud, formerly a citizen of this
cor annuity and for several years con
: iected with The Chief as compositor. pub
Usher and associate editor successfully,
has been reporter on the Los Angeles
Times for couple of years past, and
there was much anxiety felt for his safety
until telegraphic inquiry by the New Or
leans Picayune elected the information
that Mr.. Braud had escaped injury. It
was announced the following day, how
ever, that he had worked so hard in the
effort to succor others that the strain
superind uced a breakdown and he had
gone to hospital for treatment. Mrs.
Braud, who is with her husband in Los
Angeles, is daughter of Felix Braud, one
of the oldest and best known citizens of
Faubourg la Pipe, Donaldsonville's eastern
suburb, and the family have a host of
friends and relatives III this community
and elsewhere in Louisiana who will re-
joice to know that the talented newspa-
per man and devoted husband was not
among the victims of the terrible crime
that has filled the country with horror
and indignation.