Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-11-17
The True Cause
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SECOND That the day following
the disaster, internal machines.
were ..discovere ~ in the vicinity Of
the homes OF General Otis and Secre-l
.ary Zeehandelaar of me Merchants
& Manufacturers Association.
AS to he report of the committee.
Il must be remembered tha this ccm-
:nittee consisted Of business men
whose position would make them nas
turally subject to the influence which
the Times and the Merchants g
Manufacturers Associate, II l.9ve
sought to exert upon them.
AS to the internal machines, 4
which the Times would have the
world believe clinches the Cynamiting
theory, .hese "infernal machines"
were found by Detective Tom Rico,
The sam individual, strangely, who
found" the sticks Of d. Mantle in the
Hall of Records. the same individual
Who found the sticks OF dynamite
at the Alexandria Hotel. dynamite
has been found" before by detectives
working IN the intrast, Of employers
in tim of strike And time and time
again it has been proved that the
finders were the planters.
Who is Deteetlve Tom Riro? the
same ind vidual who game" notoriety
for hunting political refugees for ire
Mexican government, the :ial VINO
criminally assisted in the arrest and
attempted kidnapping OF Mastn, Viijar-
-eal and Rivera three var. ago, the
sidepartner of the notorious Tai
mantle. now ehagrd with tTef6ckfng in
white slaves bo.h of them still mem
9ers of the Los Angeles paiice folce!
Internal Machines Wer FiaTted to
Support Dynamiting Tnory.
Rico "found" two internal ma
chimes" These internal machines"
consisted of a bundle of supposed
dynamite sticks attached to IN alarm
clock, the whole being con- aihed in a
suit case In finding" one. 9f these
instruments of terror. leo "acci-
tentally" started the e!arn with his
pocket-knife and the explosion Was
so tremendous that it failed TO destroy
the clock!
It is uI.on such evidence as this
that the rolice Dase their d. rami,ing
theory!
On the other hand, to those who
are familiar with the pecu hTities OF
explosions BIZ dynamite the evidence
furnishes an overwhelming certainty
hat thers was no dynamite connect
ed with the affair.
Our Investigation developed the fol
lowing facts:
That the sound of the explosion
was deep and rumbling, ike can.:on
CT distant thunder.
That the explosion and fire, were
simultaneous the entire ruilding
having been enyeloped in flan es with
N ten seconds after the fest report.
That the flames shot straight to-
ward the sky, blowing upward fem
| he grond floor through thee stories
End through the root. and rast The
sixth story windows of the section OF
| the building to the northwaiG.
That the power of the explosion. as
well as the flames, tended upward and
not outward the outside wa Of the
building generally remaining stand
ing.
That even some OF the window
2anes Of the building we're not broken,
while almost no window 5aIies were
broken in the surrounding buildings.
That various employees of the
Times smelled gas on tie nigh of the
| tragedy, the fumes being so strong
as to cause feeling of nallsa in sew
eral cases.
In our opinion these fact: prove
conclusively that the destruction was
caused by gas explosion and not
| dynamite
Dynamit Could Not Have Wrecked
the Tires.
Gas explodes with. booming or
rumbling so,nd. Dv1ami; eyploces
with splitt.ng, cracking noise.
Gas exl lodes with = fash % flame.
Dynamite does not make fife. When
Exploding it let's loose elem nts which
put out fire
A gas explosion blows upward,
dynamite with equal strength in all
directions. Had the Times been de-
stroyed by dynamite of sufficient
strength 10 blow pward through three
eotries and throgh tn. roo. 1t would
ilso have blown every Wa; Of the
building into fragments. &
A slow explosion sEch as that by
Illuminating he gas 'oes nv disturb
/ he atmosphere sufficiently to break
window ,,anes at long distances. The
opposite is true of OF dynamite. Had
the Times been destroyed rs dyna-
mite, every outside pane in every
building :or blocks ar .und would have
been shilerei into bis.
As to he employees sm.iiing gas,
we have considerable evidence to add
to what the Examiner printed October
j. before the word went about to
oush up tie evidence nintinssto gas